Importing Questions from Quizzes into Question Bank

[greg_burchett]

Idiotic question of the day...

• I put tremendous effort into writing quizzes for my students.
• Then I discovered Question Banks!

Had I written the questions in the question bank first, then created the quizzes, no problem.

"Untitled Question Bank" has important many (but not all) questions that I generated in my quizzes.

Is there any way to export questions from a quiz into the question bank (or import into) manually?? I have about 150 questions that I need for other assignments written, and now I am looking at recreating each question... ack!

Hope all of you are doing well in these interesting times.

[michael_dubson]

I have exactly the same issue. Hoping for quick response from the Canvas folks.

[langlangcat]

Are you using Classic quiz or New Quiz? 

For Classic quiz, there is a way. In your source course---the one with all your typed up questions, create a quiz with all these questions added in, export this quiz, and import this quiz to your destination course as an QTI import, this quiz will become a testing bank in your destination course. 

[emily]

You can also

• import questions via Settings-->Import Course Content-->Copy a Canvas Course-->Selected content.
• If those import as an "unfiled question bank," you can then create a new question bank (Quizzes-->Manage question banks)
• Then, go into the "unfiled question bank". You can move questions one by one, or choose "move multiple questions" on the right side menu bar.

[helen_cozart]

Emily, your solution is contingent on IF the import goes in as an unfiled question bank.  It doesn’t.  It just creates a copy.

Panda, your solution is excessively complicated, but viable for the work I have already done. 

How do I put questions in the right type of test bank from the beginning?  I thought that by generating my tests in the sandbox that would happen, but it doesn’t.

[langlangcat]

Hi, Helen,

If you need to create the item banks that are directly importable to New Quiz. you need a test generator and save your tests as QTI 1.2 or 2.0 or above. 

I tried Respondus 4, it does not work, since it generates QTI 1.1.3, which is not working with New Quiz. I don't believe ExamView generated QB works either.