Classic Quizzes vs. New Quizzes Feature Comparison

Make informed decisions about your institution's quizzing solution with this feature comparison of Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes. For confirmed or in-discovery items, development timelines are included but are subject to change.

✔️ means the feature is supported

✖️ means the feature is not planned or in consideration at this time

% means a partial solution is available

* - means an alternative process and/or solution is available

 

Supported Canvas Workflows

Workflow Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Mastery Paths ✔️ ✔️
Mastery Paths breakdown results ✔️ ✖️
Course Copy ✔️ ✔️
Commons Import ✔️ ✔️
Commons Export ✔️ ✔️
QTI Import ✔️ ✔️
Quiz Exports (content and files) ✔️ ✔️
Common Cartridge ✔️ ✔️
Duplicate Quiz from Quizzes page ✖️ ✔️
Blueprint Courses - Initial Sync ✔️ ✔️
Blueprint Courses - Subsequent Sync ✔️ ✔️
Blueprint Courses - Question/Question Banks ✔️ ✔️
Blueprint Courses - Locking ✔️ ✔️
Supported in *beta.instructure.com ✔️ ✔️
Supported in *test.instructure.com ✔️ ✖️
Loss of Connectivity message when relevant ✔️ %
Roles permission support - Designer ✔️ Exploring
Roles permission support - Observer ✔️ Exploring
Roles permission support - TA ✔️ ✔️
Ability to enable at sub-account/course levels N/A ✔️
Question/Item Banks - Shared with course ✔️ ✔️
Question/Item Banks - Shared with multiple courses   ✔️* ✔️
Question/Item Banks - Shared with account   ✔️* ✔️
Question/Item Banks - Shared with user ✔️ ✔️

 

Features

Feature Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Printing Quizzes - Print Student to Take  ✖️ ✔️
Printing Quizzes - Print as Student Answered  ✖️ ✔️
Printing Quizzes - Print as Sample Answer Key  ✖️ ✔️ 
Bulk Download File Submissions  ✔️ Planned: 2025-H2 
Import Content Into Individual Quiz  ✔️ ✔️ 
Create Practice Quiz ✔️  ✔️*
Create Ungraded Quiz ✔️ ✔️*
Create Survey ✔️ Planned: 2025-H2
Preview Quiz (student view) ✔️ ✔️
To-do List for Instructor ✔️ ✔️
To-do List for Student ✔️ ✔️
Calendar for Student ✔️ ✔️
LockDown browser support ✔️ ✔️
Customize Question Feedback ✔️ ✔️
Leave/Resume Quiz ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Bookmark Banks ✔️  
Manage Question/Item Banks - Copy/Move Banked Questions ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Delete Banks ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - View Only Access ✖️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Randomize Bank Questions ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Share Item Banks ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Import Item Bank Content ✔️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Tag Banked Items with Metadata ✖️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Search Content within an Item Bank ✖️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Search for an Item Bank ✖️ ✔️
Manage Question/Item Banks - Filter/Sort Item Bank ✖️ ✔️
Regrade Questions ✔️ ✔️
Reorder Questions ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Record audio and video ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Content Selector Sidebar ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Accessibility Checker ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Apps and LTI tools ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - HTML Editor ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Insert media iframe ✔️ ✔️
New Rich Content Editor - Right-to-left/left-to-right formatting buttons ✔️ ✔️

 

Item/Question Types

Item/Question Type Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Categorization ✖️ ✔️
Essay ✔️ ✔️
Fill in the Blank ✔️ ✔️
Fill in Multiple Blanks  ✔️  ✔️*
File Upload  ✔️ ✔️
Formula  ✔️ ✔️
Multiple Answer  ✔️ ✔️
Multiple Choice  ✔️ ✔️
Multiple Dropdown ✔️  ✔️*
Matching  ✔️ ✔️
Numeric  ✔️ ✔️
Stimulus/Passage  ✖️ ✔️
Text (No Question)  ✔️ ✔️
True/False  ✔️ ✔️
Ordering  ✖️ ✔️
Hot Spot  ✖️ ✔️

 

Settings

Setting Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Allow Multiple Attempts (All Students) ✔️ ✔️ 
Allow Multiple Attempts (Individual Student) ✔️ ✔️
Require Waiting Period Between Attempts ✖️ ✔️
Display One Question at Time ✔️ ✔️
Require Access Code ✔️ ✔️
Set Time Limit ✔️ ✔️
Shuffle Questions Globally ✖️ ✔️
Shuffle Answers Globally ✔️ ✔️
Hide Student Responses ✔️ ✔️
Hide Student Responses Available Window ✔️ ✔️
Filter IP Addresses ✔️ ✔️
Filter IP Addresses by Named Location ✔️ ✔️
Assign to Individual Student ✔️ ✔️
Assign to Section ✔️ ✔️
Set Available Dates ✔️ ✔️
Shuffle Answers per Question ✖️ ✔️

 

Grading and Moderation

Feature Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the whole course) ✖️ ✔️
Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the assessment) ✔️ ✔️
Add Extra Attempts (Individual Student, for the whole course) ✖️  ✔️
Add Extra Attempts (Individual Student, for the assessment)  ✔️ ✔️
View Moderation Page  ✔️ ✔️
Manually Submit Attempts ✔️ ✔️
View Quiz Log ✔️ ✔️
View Student Results  ✔️ ✔️
Automatic grading of questions  ✔️ ✔️
Add Fudge Points ✔️ ✔️
Partial Points/Credit - Multiple Answer ✔️ ✔️
Partial Points/Credit - Fill in the Blank  ✔️  
Partial Points/Credit - Multiple Choice   ✖️ ✔️
Partial Points/Credit - Matching ✔️ ✔️
Partial Points/Credit - Ordering ✖️  
Partial Points/Credit - Categorization ✖️  
SpeedGrader Grade One Question at a Time ✔️ ✔️
Learning Mastery Gradebook ✔️ ✔️

 

Reporting and Analysis

Feature Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Item Analysis ✔️ ✔️
Summary Statistics  ✔️ ✔️
Outcome Analysis  ✖️ ✔️
Student Analysis  ✔️ ✔️
CSV Download  ✔️ ✔️
Canvas Data Portal access  ✔️  Planned: 2026-H1

 

Interoperability

Feature Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Third Party Integrations - Proctoring ✔️   ✔️*
Quiz Management API ✔️ ✔️
Quiz Submission API ✔️ Planned: 2025-Q2
Question/Item Bank API ✔️ Planned: 2025-H2
Reporting API ✔️ ✔️
Moderation API ✔️ ✔️

 

Outcomes

Outcome Classic Quizzes New Quizzes
Rubric Alignments  ✖️  ✔️
Individual Item Alignments  ✖️ ✔️
Quiz (Overall) Alignments  ✖️ ✔️
Question Bank Alignment ✔️  

 

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