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Problem statement: Is there anyway, like there is to print quiz questions with answers from an Item Bank that was created. Currently it seems the only way to do that is to create a quiz with all the q...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When managing tags in an item bank, there is not a possiblity to rename the tag. We have been using Item Banks with New Quizzes for over 2 years now and some of our tags were based ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty using random selection in New Quizzes with Item Banks is concerned that randomization may not address all outcomes. In this case faculty have associated outcomes to each que...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, when a new quiz question is created in a quiz, a copy is automatically saved to the "Unfiled" question bank for the course. The question is the quiz, however, is...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas account admins with "Item banks - Manage Account" permission have access to all item banks in all courses, potentially thousands or or tens of thousands of item banks. In ord...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In new quizzes, when banking a quiz question, the user is presented with a search box from which to select the desired item bank. For anyone with access to a large number of item ba...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We've ran into issues with our instructors "misplacing" questions from their item banks.  Would it be possible to create an option to search through all the item banks at the same time and have the ab...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When we create a Bank type question in a quiz it will only select from the entire Item Bank. Please let us refine the selection with a tag. This would make so that we do not have to duplicate question...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi All I have been speaking to a few colleagues about tracking locations of questions/items when reviewing quizzes and associated analytics. We have several quizzes where questions are randomly select...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas, currently, there is not a way to manage an item bank from the Admin. level. This creates a problem when trying to edit questions that were pulled from the item bank, especially in blueprint...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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What I want to be able to do is attach questions to a stimulus, then create an item bank of the stimuli with the associated questions fixed to each specific stimuli, to randomise the questions. This f...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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We are working on import masses of questions via question banks. Currently, when you import a QTI file, there is no option on New Quizzes for question bank creation: Why not? The fact New Quizzes run...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Please consider the  idea of allowing the instructor to  select  specific question-types from a question bank. At  times when we as faculty may not want to  T/F question-types administered as part of ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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PLEASE develop folders and subfolders within question banks so questions can be organized for easier access in quiz creation.  If a teacher chooses to develop a quiz with a selected number of question...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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It would be useful that when you create a question [item] bank at the account level being able to upload a huge number of questions once by using a word document. Now, the only way to do this is to cr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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