Printable / PDF-exportable quizzes

[seth]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

The Quiz Build page provides quiz printing options. For more information, please read through the  Canvas Release Notes (2021-08-21).

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As an instructor, I want to be able to export a Canvas quiz as a PDF. This would enable me to easily print quizzes for the purpose of accommodation, for allowing a given student to take a quiz outside the timeframe established for the quiz for all other students, etc.

transferred from the old Community

Originally posted by: Pacific Union College admins

Special thanks for contributions from: Betsy Walker, John Louviere

Community Team Note: This idea remains open for voting. A virtually identical idea was moved forward for consideration in March: https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/7285-exporting-quizzes-into-word-or-pdf-documents  Contrary to our customary practice, we are allowing both ideas to continue to move forward. Votes and feedback from both ideas will be evaluated.

[tnelson2]

This would be great for our special needs students. Our teachers were very disappointed that this option does not exist. Please consider putting this on your road map to include printing quizzes.  It would help so much for accomodations.

[kerwin1]

I cannot believe that this has not been added yet, as many IEP's and there are medical reasons that students would need a test on paper.  

[sarah_donahoe]

Honestly y'all, at this point, I've moved on to using MasteryConnect which

is better in several key ways:

1. The data reports are MUCH better.

2. If a kid leaves your class, then you can still go back to see how

they did on an assessment

3. There are WAY more TEI items available

4. You can print the tests.

If I can help you with that at all, please let me know.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM kerwin@stjohnsprep.org <

[jkirkland]

This is a must for my program because of some of the types of IEPs students have. 

[mitchel_stimers]

Here's a little run-down on the top 10 requests, including this one (asc, up-votes):

Post Title	Opened	Time Open	Total Views	UP	DOWN	UP%
Printable / PDF-exportable quizzes	3/31/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 30 d	35,608	2,461	29	98.84%
Allow folders in Pages	11/11/16	3 yrs, 4 mo, 10 d	27,822	2,250	82	96.48%
Multiple Due Dates (checkpoints) for Discussions	5/5/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 4 d	30,246	2,201	14	99.37%
Create Question Banks from MSWord	5/17/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 16 d	36,825	1,728	24	98.63%
Ability to Save and Copy from Frequently Used Comments in Speedgrader/DocViewer	5/15/15	4 yrs, 10 mo, 14 d	13,900	1,467	10	99.32%
Regrade quiz when deleting questions	9/1/15	4 yrs, 6 mo, 0 d	17,964	1,304	20	98.49%
Notifications by Course	10/27/15	4 yrs, 4 mo, 26 d	58,116	1,099	5	99.55%
Adjust all assignment and quiz dates on a single page	4/7/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 6 d	19,681	1,076	9	99.17%
Submit an assignment on behalf of a student	4/14/15	4 yrs, 11 mo, 13 d	21,846	1,042	27	97.47%
Let us schedule a Publish Date / Time for Content Pages	11/16/15	4 yrs, 4 mo, 15 d	9,163	1,015	12	98.83%
		AVERAGE	27,117	1,564	23	98.54%
		MAX	58,116	2,461	82	99.55%
		MIN	9,163	1,015	5	96.48%

[william_goss]

Well looking at those timelines, hard to get excited about stuff being asked about for 5 years without anything done…

[smithlisa]

There is a Chrome Extension called "Canvas Quiz Printer"  I select the quiz, then I select the icon in my Chrome bar and it automatically prints a copy of the quiz.

If you would like to print a completed quiz just highlight the quiz starting from Question 1 and highlight the whole quiz, then right-click and either print or print to pdf.  I think they look pretty nice. 

[Kelvin_Dean]

I support your idea very much. Here is my concept of exporting a quiz.

When the three dots are clicked on the top right corner, this modal will pop up.

INCLUDE COVER SHEET
When checked, this will insert a cover sheet as the first page, which may be similar to the page that is displayed to the students before they start the quiz. This will include the instructions for the quiz, time limit, and due date.
(Showing the number of attempts on a printed quiz may not be feasible.)

LANGUAGE
This only works when the idea https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/16359-assessment-wide-tags-in-new-quizzes-not-just-for-individ...‌ is successfully completed.
If you have multiple languages added in Details > Language (shown below at #5), you can select the language to use for the export.
(If the language is set to a crowdsourced language, the quiz UI will be in English.)

FORMAT
You can choose what format you want to export into. You can choose DOCX (Word), PDF, or QTI (which is a QTI ZIP file of course).

QUESTION GROUPS
If you create a question group, you must first configure its settings in How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to an assessment in New Quizzes? > Edit Item Bank Question Settings before exporting. Each time the Export button is pressed, a random set of questions will be generated.

Note: At this time, if you select QTI as the export format, the exported quiz with questions linked to a question bank will not include an export file of the question bank. The QTI file will only include questions from the question bank that have been added to the quiz.

OTHERS
Points are only shown next to each question if at least one of the settings related to point values is enabled in Settings > Restrict Student Result View > Show points awarded or Show points possible.

[ptart]

That extension only works for Classic Quizzes, not New Quizzes. Having said that, I also found it very easy to install and worked fantastic!

 @Kelvin_Dean  has a fantastic mock-up of what I would expect a print/export feature to look like. Well done and fingers crossed.

[tiffani_roche]

I love this idea! There are students that don't have access to a computer and you would like the quizzes to be the same. online and offline. There are so many variables that we don't have control off and this would be an easy way to give the student a similar opportunity.