[New Quizzes] Export to or Share in Commons

[abbyrosensweig]

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment?

For more information, please read through the Commons Release Notes (2025-01-18) 

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Problem statement:

Current Instructure documentation states that New Quizzes cannot be imported from Canvas Commons (source: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Commons/How-do-I-import-and-view-a-Commons-resource-in-Can....) This limits the usefulness of both New Quizzes and Commons to not be able to share these specific resource types there.

Proposed solution:

New Quizzes and Canvas Commons should be fully compatible. Instructors should be able to share New Quizzes to Commons and then also import items from Commons that contain New Quizzes.

User role(s):

admin,instructor

[bgarner]

Dear Canvas/Instructure - adding another institution to this thread for awareness. This is a major issue for instructors at all levels as well as course designers. 

[LaurenG123]

Adding to this thread to show Canvas/Instructure that there is still a major need to be able to import/export New Quizzes across institutions. How is this not fixed by now??

[chrhh]

@LaurenG123 100%. It's mind-boggling how this still isn't in place, almost 3 years later.

[adeski]

@chrhh @LaurenG123 True. We are in the process of giving up on Canvas in our Oxford courses and moving to something more faculty-friendly on account of the lack of attention to this major flaw. The workload required to work around this awful assessment tool is simply not econominical.

[jhughes_cu]

I'd like to add another voice to this discussion. At our institution we have worked extensively with the Moodle platform where it is trivially easy to copy quizzes/question banks from course to course using the import/export features. This is so useful and time-saving to us as course editors that it would seem to be a HUGE oversight not to include similar functionality in New Quizzes. 

It would be good to know whether Canvas have any sort of roadmap for implementing New Quiz import/export features at any point in the future.

[uchtman_david]

Problem statement:

Sharing new quizzes to commons is not an option at this time. This is an important feature that need to be addressed soon. Many instructors need to have this feature enabled as they teach multiple sections an cannot merge the sections.

Proposed solution:

Please allow new quizzes to be shared to commons.

User role(s):

instructor

[KristinL]

  Comments from Instructure

This feature is available in Beta. For more information, please read through the Commons Release Notes (2025-01-18) 

How do I access the Canvas beta environment as an instructor?