What changes when we enable the New Quizzes feature flag?

[paulamiranda]

Hello, our campus has been slowly rolling out New Quizzes, so we've left the "New Quizzes" feature flag disabled but unlocked at root. There is one subaccount that would like to turn it on for their school, and we want to make sure we advise them about what enabling the feature does. I've looked through the Admin Guides and cannot find documentation about this feature flag (or the other New Quizzes ones).

To my knowledge, the following happens when it's enabled:

1. Instructors will get the Choose a Quiz Engine option that allows them to create a Classic or New Quizzes quiz.
   
2. The Convert content to New Quizzes appears when copying a course, and is enabled, by default (is there anyway to uncheck this by default, so that it's optional?)
   
3. The Migrate function becomes available in Classic quizzes (technically, this appears even if NQ is disabled yet unlocked for the account, but enabled at the course level)
   

Are there any other changes we should expect? Having documentation of what changes for this and the other New Quizzes feature flags would be very helpful for us as we support programmatic adoption of it at our campus. Thank you.

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @paulamiranda,

For your item #2, that should be controlled by three other feature options, not the New Quizzes option itself.  I'll paste a screenshot below:

The first option should display that option checkbox on imports (unchecked).  The second one will check the box by default.  The thire will check the box and not allow it to be unchecked.

Everything else you mentioned seems correct to me upon first glance.

-Chris

[paulamiranda]

Thank you. While I appreciate your response, a confirmation from Canvas as well as official documentation would be solution. Users shouldn't have to wade through discussion forums and rely on community responses for information that should be part of official documentation, especially for a feature flag that is this important. 

[chriscas]

Hi @paulamiranda,

The Canvas Feature Option Summary document does a pretty good job of describing most fo the available feature flags overall.  Perhaps there should be some kind of New Quizzes availability transition guide for admins though, which I don't seem to see anywhere right now.  While there are Instructure employees around the community who will chime in on threads every now and then, the Discussions/Q&A areas usually are much mor eof a user to user help area.  I'll see if I can pass your suggestion on to the community team.

-Chris

[chriscas]

Hi again @paulamiranda,

I apparently looked right over the information Instructure does have posted about these flags.  If you go to the Adoption Toolkit: New Quizzes area, the crawl, walk, and run PDF guides do mention the feature options to consider enabling for that specific deployment phase and why.

Does that help you out some more?

-Chris