move or copy Multiple questions from one item bank to another in New Quizzes?

[SomeHandyGuy]

Moving a single question is easy, as shown here:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-move-or-copy-a-question-from-one-item-b...

But what about mutlple questions? This process is tedious as I'm trying move 20 questions at a time.

Mind you, the real problem I that I having to combine quiz banks because New Quiz questions can only draw questions from a single bank at a time. So if I want to source from multiple banks for a single question, I have to create a new combined question bank and then move the questions into it one-by-one from my existing ones.

Currently there is no way to carry out batch operations on large numbers of questions in New Quiz (e.g. I what to change the "shuffle answers ON/OFF" setting for 200 questions - good luck with that). Maybe I find an error in some questions and want to delete all affected questions. It would be nice to select a bunch of them and carry out some action on them as a group.

[cstrikwerda]

Hello @SomeHandyGuy 
Thanks for asking your question to the community. 
Currently we do not have a way to move multiple questions from one item bank to another. This has to be done per question right now.

I was seeing a good response on a similar question in the community: 

Migration from classic quizzes to new quizzes is currently more tedious than our team would like; they're working on functionality that will improve that process. For now, we've updated our FAQ: New Quizzes with a migration section to outline some of the migration behaviors. Let us know if one of these questions/answers works for what you're looking for. If not, you may want to hold tight as our team finishes their question bank migration project.

Right now we are seeing some limitations, however, 

Members of our Product and Engineering team want to hear from you if there is anything that would make your experience with Canvas better. Feel free to submit your suggestions to our Ideas Page here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/idb-p/ideas

How Idea Conversations work in our Community:
https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Community/How-do-idea-conversations-work-in-the-Instructure-Commu...

I was looking and was not finding an idea about this same topic, but I would suggest creating an Idea for that to be voted on in our Community.

Hope this helps!

[SomeHandyGuy]

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I'm not migrating content for classic quizzes so this doesn't really help me.

I'm creating new content within the New Quiz format for content that is already organised into banks (actually it's old Blackboard content). I'm having to create "combined" banks everytime we have a question that should draw from multiple banks. Currently New Quiz questions can't do this. Simple operations like merge, duplicate and split banks would help but are missing and I look forward to their future implementation.

BTW I can't create the content in Classic and then migrate to New because each question has an individual "shuffle answers ON/OFF" setting and Classic doesn't support this (which is why I'm using New in the first place).

[SK_Swansea]

Is there any news about whether Canvas is working to solve this issue?

I am surprised that the developers hadn't considered that users might want to move multiple questions at a time.

It is so tedious moving over 100 questions by clicking on each one individually!

[CraigJ]

Still can't find an update to this. It has been over two years since the original post. Had hoped this feature might have been added by now..?

[richard_gardner]

Only too typical for Canvas. Users waste so much time searching for nonexistent solutions, and years later, no solutions are forthcoming. Par for the course. 

[EliseBell]

Is it too cynical to mark "accept as solution" for this response?

[cstrikwerda]

@richard_gardner @eli @CraigJ @SomeHandyGuy 

I just wanted to update this post with my findings, and let you know that there is ongoing work being done to improve New Quizzes. I have been supporting other products so apologies for any delay in response on this.

Currently we have an option to move multiple questions,
Guide: How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another?

When moving multiple questions, we do not have an option to leave a copy in the original bank we are moving them from.
To leave a copy in the original question bank, this has to be done individually using the copy question feature.
Guide: How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?

From that guide: "Moving questions removes the question from the original question bank. Copying questions leaves a copy in the original question bank and adds a copy to the selected question bank."

I believe the feature being requested is the ability to copy multiple questions at once, as well as the ability to manage items with bulk actions. 

The Community Ideas and Themes process has changed since this post was made, and we are improving the process in which we gather ideas for improvements from the Community.

Please see: Turning Your Feedback into Better Prioritization and Release Processes: Our Path Forward

I would also suggest taking a look at our New Quizzes Group inside the Community here: New Quizzes Hub

I would also suggest posting a question in the New Quizzes questions area of the Community with your suggestions and how they would benefit you. Here is a link to the New Quiz Discussions: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/New-Quizzes-Discussion/bd-p/new_quizzes_discussion

[CraigJ]

How do I move multiple questions from one question... - Instructure Community - 1238 seems to relate to old Question Banks not new Item Banks. Is that correct?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @CraigJ ...

The closest thing I can find for New Quizzes is the following Guide: How do I move or copy a question from one item ban... - Instructure Community - 584.

[CraigJ]

Yes, I think that was in the original post

[cstrikwerda]

@CRA @Chris_Hofer 
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, that was related to Classic Quizzes. Apologies. I would still consider opening a discussion in the New Quizzes group for added functionality if this is still a feature we are requesting. Thanks everyone!