“Text No Question has moved to a Stimulus; please add a question so it can display within the quiz”

[cll124]

I am local admin for my unit, and therefore manage quite a few courses and their blueprints.  I often see this message "

“Text No Question has moved to a Stimulus; please add a question so it can display within the quiz” after I complete importing content from one blueprint to a new blueprint.  I did not write the course nor the quiz questions.

While the original content of the course was created before New Quizzes was an option, for the last number of years I always check the box beside "import quiz content as New Quizzes" when I import.

As each course typically has 50+ quizzes, and I manage a number of courses, it is not possible for me to check each quiz in each course. The only way I know of to find out which question is the problem is for the quiz to fail for a student - not ideal. Despite my years of fixing questions by adding a Stimulus with a question attached, we still get quizzes that do not have a stimulus and therefore the student cannot listen to the audio or watch the video that is the Stimulus.

Is there a way to trace which "text no question" is being referred to when I get this message?

Thanks

Chris

 

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

Have you tried the API? The List New Quiz Items - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation API creates a JSON will all quiz items, including both questions and stimuli.

So it will list each stimulus with its "id", and each question will have a "stimulus_quiz_entry_id" entry, which lists the stimulus that it is linked to (if any).

You would need to make a list of all stimulus ids, and another of all "stimulus_quiz_entry_id"s, and see if there are any elements of the first list that are not in the second.

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

Have you tried the API? The List New Quiz Items - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation API creates a JSON will all quiz items, including both questions and stimuli.

So it will list each stimulus with its "id", and each question will have a "stimulus_quiz_entry_id" entry, which lists the stimulus that it is linked to (if any).

You would need to make a list of all stimulus ids, and another of all "stimulus_quiz_entry_id"s, and see if there are any elements of the first list that are not in the second.

[cll124]

Hi Gabriel

I did not know about this - thanks for the clue!  I will try and if still have issues, will revisit this post.

[Gabriel33 · Accepted solution]

It is possible that this won't be an issue anymore next month, given this new release note:

Summary

In New Quizzes, instructors are able to provide students additional context with standalone text or prompts that are not tied to questions on a New Quiz.

Change Benefit

This update allows instructors to add sections to their quizzes that do not require a question to include instructions or other information to guide the student. In addition, it also improves ease of migration from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes.

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Source: Canvas Release Notes (2025-05-17) - Instructure Community - 640614