Updates to New Quizzes and Blueprint Courses Syncing

MPioRoda · ‎08-19-2022

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Many Canvas users rely on Blueprint Courses to provide high-quality, consistent content across courses for their institution. To better support these workflows when using New Quizzes, we are excited to announce the following updates that are now available in beta and will go live to production with our September 17th Canvas release. See our Canvas Release Notes for additional context. Updates include:

Admins and instructors added to Blueprint Courses can sync New Quiz changes to associated courses.
Previously, after the initial sync, changes to a New Quiz in a Blueprint did not sync to associated courses. Now, subsequent syncs will update changes to New Quizzes across all associated courses.

New Quiz Item Banks are now supported in Blueprint Courses.
This update allows institutions to provide consistent Item Banks across courses.

In addition to these updates, the team is working to add Blueprint functionality for locking quizzes. An update will be shared when this becomes available.

audra_agnelly · ‎09-19-2022

What about Commons? When reimporting an updated New Quiz from Commons, the quiz in the receiving course does not receive the updated quiz questions, just the updated assignment settings.

ehouswor · ‎09-21-2022

Arghh! I was using the fact that the exams didn't sync to create unique exams in each course after the initial BluePrint push. Now, I just pushed, the exams are destroyed. When Canvas works one way one day and a totally different way the next, it is really frustrating. I had no idea I needed to search on "why did a blueprint push mess up my New Quizzes exam" until after it happened.

bergs · ‎09-22-2022

Glad to see this is now working. Once Blueprint locking is fully implemented for New Quizzes, I hope an unlocked New Quiz that is modified in an associated course will create a sync exception whenever subsequent changes to the quiz are synced from the Blueprint course and that the changes made in the associated course are kept and not overwritten. That would be consistent with how all other content types work with Blueprint associations. (Currently, any change made to a New Quiz in a Blueprint will overwrite all changes made to the same quiz in an associated course).