The Future of Question Bank Migration

[gcat12345]

Hi there,

I work for a four-year university as a Canvas LMS admin. I've received concerns from faculty members regarding migrating question banks for the future. We have a specific course that would like to roll over question banks for multiple years, and have those banks housed within that class only. 

Because we are still using Classic Quizzes, we aren't having any trouble with question bank migration yet. However, when we move over to New Quizzes in the future, will there be any major changes to question bank migration? Will this specific course be allowed to roll over question banks without any problems in Canvas?

If quiz migration will be eliminated and/or changed in the future, would pushing the course to Commons be a possible solution? Can we push the course to Commons and import quiz banks successfully this way?

Thank you! Any feedback is much appreciated to help us solve a possible quiz bank migration issue.

Thank you!

[manoharan]

To add more to this question, what QTI support (e.g., which QTI version) would there be for the new quizzes? Can questions from other platforms be imported into the new quizzes?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @gcat12345 ...

I'm not sure if this link will help at all, but I recently came across a reply in this topic that has a lot of directions in it re: quizzes and question banks.  I tried out the instructions, and it seemed to work.  It's not the most ideal, but for now it might be a good work-around for you to try?

Solved: Re: Migrate question banks from the old quizzing e... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com...

What are your thoughts?  Might this work for your needs...for now?

[asaylor]

I did part of this, but I had a slightly different path -

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   @Chris_Hofer wrote:
   

   Hi there, @gcat12345 ...

   I'm not sure if this link will help at all, but I recently came across a reply in this topic that has a lot of directions in it re: quizzes and question banks.  I tried out the instructions, and it seemed to work.  It's not the most ideal, but for now it might be a good work-around for you to try?

   Solved: Re: Migrate question banks from the old quizzing e... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com...

   What are your thoughts?  Might this work for your needs...for now?

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   Then I took the quiz and made it a new quiz. I did this for all the item banks. I was then able to import all the new quizzes only into the course I want to use these in.
   
   Not sure this is a better path, but this is what I have done.
   -Anne

[asaylor]

Sorry, Post would not let me edit. I realized I lost this part of my post. These are the steps I follow:

1. Create a Classic quiz and name it whatever you want the item bank to be named in New Quizzes. One thing to note here - all of the item banks for all the classes I teach are in the same massive item bank area in New Quizzes, so I've started including the course code at the front of the item bank name. I don't know if that's universal or just how my institution has it set up, but it's a little annoying.
2. Move all of the questions for that bank into that quiz. I click on "Find Questions", navigate to the bank I'm migrating, and then click "Select All" and add those to the quiz. Don't do the question group, the migration will fail. I've also tried making one big quiz for export and then sorting out questions into their proper item banks later, but the two big issues I've run into with this method are:
   1. The order of questions might not be maintained, so questions from each topic/chapter may not stay grouped together, making it harder to find the questions for the right bank
   2. There's no way I've found to move multiple questions at the same time in the New Quizzes item banks, so you'd have to repeat all the clicks to move each question individually. Either way, it's endless repetition and clicking on things; for me, I prefer to keep the questions for each bank grouped throughout the transfer.
3. Save the quiz without publishing, since it's really just there for transfer and not for students to take.
   
   
   
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   Then I took the quiz and made it a new quiz. I did this for all the item banks. I was then able to import all the new quizzes only into the course I want to use these in.
   
   

[chriscas]

Hi @gcat12345 

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from you. We hope you are doing well and that you’ve found an answer to your question!

The Community Team acknowledges that this thread may not have a proper answer yet.  I have moved your question to the Quizzes Transition forum, as there may be someone actively monitoring that area that can give you a better answer.  Since New Quizzes are still being actively developed, the answer could potentially change over time as well.

-Chris