New Quizzes - One District To Another

[JenniferMcClure]

I changed districts within the state of NC.  I have "lost" my New Quizzes that I created in my old district and my abundant banks created for my course as well.  I tried putting my entire course in the commons and then copying them once I was in my new district.  I also tried exporting my course and the quizzes to a hard drive before I left my old district as well. The Quizzes I really want are in the new quizzes version, which for some reason weren't the ones that can be imported from the course in the commons.  From my understanding and attempts also, the quizzes from the previous district can't be shared with me in another district either.  All my new quizzes are still present and usable in my old district which is what I want but also want to be able to use them too.  I am at a loss.  Lots of time and tons of effort I've left behind.  Please help me.  I feel like there's something I'm missing as well as all the people I know to ask in my current and previous districts.

[Ron_Bowman]

@JenniferMcClure -

It sounds like you tried everything possible.  I do not use new quizzes and I do not have the ability to export my course content (that link is not given to us at my institution).  I would think that if you could create a course export that you would be able to import that and select the item banks and quizzes. 

If you were able to create a common module in the old district, did you download that module and then try to import that download into the new course?

[JenniferMcClure]

I exported my entire course to the commons while in the old district.  The new quizzes in the course don't show up in even in the preview in the commons.

[Nancy_Webb_CCSF]

It's true, new quizzes cannot currently be exported to a different school.  A course export doesn't include the new quizzes banks or questions because they are kept on an external website and not in Canvas itself.

The ability to export new quizzes outside of an account is listed on the New Quizzes timeline as "Possible Later".  You might want to write a comment about how important this is Re: Classic Quiz Sunset 2024 Feedback - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com).  It's important to many of us.

[JamesDauray]

I have the same problem. I teach full time at a high school and part time at a community college. Both use Canvas, but I can't export my new quizzes between them. Because its an external tool, it just doesn't migrate over. I tried everything.  Its really frustrating.

[kroeninm]

Hi @Nancy_Webb_CCSF this has been my experience as well. Since I work in an area that supports the creation of templates where we need to maintain the original as well as pass on a copy of the course to subsequent instructors, this has been a key barrier to us migrating.  Current solutions (for the future) which do not work now as far as I can tell would be...

1. Export a course and have both the banks and quizzes come along with it. Or if that's not possible then be able to export a quiz and/or export a bank individually.  I'm happy to have any type of export!
2. Use a tool like Respondus to grab the quiz/questions and pull them down to your computer and the push them up to where you want them to go.
3. Share a quiz and/or banks to Commons and then pull them in where you need them - this is least preferred as "sharing" to a commons repository is uncomfortable for faculty working with high stakes exam questions.

Our current workaround for the pilot courses we had use new quizzes was to build them in Classic Quizzes, and export them as part of the course archive.  The migrate them to new quizzes.  I don't think functionality will be available much longer however.  I think some of these items as mentioned above are either "Possibly later" (Export a New Quiz outside of Canvas account - does not describe exporting it out of the institution however...), or perhaps "Before July 2023" (Common Cartridge file does not describe if this an export or import they are working on).  Crossing fingers it's part of the July 2023 date in the timeline.  

Melanie

[Fernsy]

I work for a school which shares resources with other schools as we are part of a statewide distant education group. We were told 4 years ago that new quizzes were coming and to get on board. Not being able to export new quizzes between schools has results in 100's of hours of work as when courses are exported there is no way to export a new quiz.

The statement "The ability to export new quizzes outside of an account is listed on the New Quizzes timeline as "Possible Later", what does this mean??? Can we please have a timeline for this feature as it has been far too long for this issue to be fixed. We have quizzes that need to be created for courses that start at the beginning of 2023. So do we spend the time now to manually create all these quizzes OR will exporting quizzes happen before then?????????