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You can view reports for a quiz created in New Quizzes. The reports available in New Quizzes are the improved Quiz and Item Analysis, Quiz and Item Analysis (old), and the Outcomes Analysis. The Quiz and Item Analysis reports include statistics for the entire quiz and individual items. The Outcomes Analysis report includes outcome mastery statistics for all students who took the quiz.
Notes:
- The Quiz and Item Analysis (old) report can be accessed for quizzes created and taken before the end of 2023 until Summer of 2024. Quizzes taken after the end of 2023 must use the improved Quiz and Item Analysis report.
- Outcomes associated with questions from item banks do not display in the Outcomes Analysis report.
- If you edit a quiz after students have already attempted the quiz, the Outcomes Analysis report includes results previous to edits being made.
- To generate a report, there must be at least three quiz submissions.
Open Quizzes
In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.
Note: You can also access quizzes from the Assignments page.
Open Build Page
To view reports for a quiz, find the quiz you want to open [1].
To open New Quizzes from an existing quiz, click the Options icon [2] and then click the Build link [3].
Open Reports
Click the Reports tab.
Open Improved Quiz and Item Analysis
To generate the improved Quiz and Item Analysis report for the quiz, click the Generate Report link [1]. Once generated you can open the Quiz and Item Analysis report by clicking the View Report link [2].
To download the Quiz and Item Analysis report as a CSV file, click the Export CSV button [3].
View Quiz Analysis
The Quiz and Item Analysis report includes two sections: Quiz Analysis and Item Analysis.
The Quiz Analysis includes statistics for overall quiz scores. To view Quiz Analysis details, click the Expand icon [1].
The following statistics are available:
- High Score [2]: displays highest percentage score
- Low Score [3]: displays lowest percentage score
- Mean Score [4]: displays average percentage score
- Median Score [5]: displays median percentage score
- Mean Elapsed Time [6]: displays average time to complete the quiz
- Standard Deviation [7]: represents the amount of variation from the mean score in percentage
- Cronbach’s Alpha [8]: is an internal consistency measure that estimates the reliability of a quiz
- Score Distribution Chart [9]: represents the distribution of earned scores for the quiz
View Item Analysis
The Item Analysis includes statistics for items in a quiz and their correlation to the overall quiz score. To view Item Analysis details, click the Expand icon [1].
The following statistics are available:
- Item Difficulty [2]: measures the proportion of students who answered the question correctly
- Mean Earned Points [3]: displays average point score out of the maximum possible points
- Median Earned Points [4]: displays mean point score out of the maximum possible points
- Discrimination Index [5]: assesses the ability of an item to differentiate between the highest scoring and lowest scoring students
- Corrected Item-Total Correlation Coefficient [6]: measures the correlation between a given item and the total score
- Answer Frequency Summary Chart [7]: displays the number and percentage of students who selected each answer choice
Note: The Answer Frequency Summary charts display the total number of correct responses, incorrect responses, and no responses for the following question types: Categorization, Fill in the Blank, Formula, Hot Spot, Matching, Multiple Answer, Multiple Choice, Numeric-Answer, Ordering, and True or False.
Open Old Quiz and Item Analysis
To view the Quiz and Item Analysis (old) report, click the View Report link.
Note: The Quiz and Item Analysis (old) report can be accessed for quizzes created and taken before the end of 2023 until Summer of 2024. Quizzes taken after the end of 2023 must use the improved Quiz and Item Analysis report.
View Quiz Analysis
The Quiz and Item Analysis (old) report includes two sections: Quiz Analysis and Item Analysis.
The Quiz Analysis includes statistics for overall quiz scores. These statistics include all students who have taken the quiz. The following statistics are available:
- High Score [1]: displays highest percentage score
- Low Score [2]: displays lowest percentage score
- Mean Score [3]: displays average percentage score
- Standard Deviation [4]: represents the amount of variation from the mean score
- Mean Elapsed Time [5]: displays average time to complete quiz
- Cronbach’s Alpha [6]: measures internal consistency of how closely related a set of items are as a group
View Item Analysis
In the Item Analysis section, you can view statistics for specific questions in an quiz. The following item analysis statistics are available:
- Difficulty Index [1]: measures the proportion of students who answered the question correctly. Calculated by dividing the number of correct answers by the number of times the item was included in the quiz.
- Discrimination Index [2]: measures how well a question can tell the difference between students who do well on the exam and those who do not. Calculated by subtracting the bottom 27% of difficulty index scores from the top 27% of difficulty index scores.
- RPB (Point-Biserial Correlation Coefficient) [3]: measures the correlation between a given item and the total score.
- Mean Earned Score [4]: displays average point score.
To view more statistics, click the Arrow icon [5].
View More Statistics
View more statistics for the quiz.
The Answer Frequency Summary chart displays the number and percentage of students who selected each answer choice [1].
The Performance by Quintile bar chart displays the number of students who scored within each percentage quintile [2].
You can also view any outcomes aligned to the question [3].
Open Outcomes Analysis
To open the Outcomes Analysis, click the View Report link.
View Outcomes Analysis
The Outcomes Analysis includes each student who has completed a quiz [1] and their mastery results for each outcome [2].
To view more details for an outcome, click the name of the outcome [3].
To download the CSV file of the Outcomes Analysis report, click the Export CSV button [4].
Note: Outcomes may take up to 48 hours to display in New Quizzes after they have been added to an account.
View Outcome Detail
The Outcome Detail page contains performance information for a specific outcome, including number of students who reached mastery [1], description [2], average score [3], and score required to earn mastery [4].
You can also view the number of students who score within each criteria level [5] and how mastery is calculated [6].
If your course has New Analytics enabled, and your institution has enabled the Online Attendance report, you can view an Online Attendance report. This report is based on criteria that has been selected by your institution. Your institution can select from the following criteria:
- Course Access: student views a page in a course
- Posts: student posts a new comment to an announcement or a discussion
- Assignments: student submits an assignment
- Collaborations: student loads a collaboration to view/edit document
- Conferences: student joins a web conference
- Pages: student creates a page
- Quizzes: student starts taking a quiz or submits a quiz
If a student meets the requirements of any selected criteria, they will be marked as present for that day in the Online Attendance report.
You can filter the report by student, section, date, and criteria status. You can also select which days of the week your class is in session and when students are expected to meet attendance criteria.
Notes:
- If you cannot view the New Analytics link in Course Navigation, you may have to make the link visible via the Navigation tab in Course Settings. If the New Analytics link is not available in the Navigation tab, your institution has disabled this feature.
- Data is refreshed in New Analytics every 24 hours. Please confirm the time data was last updated in the course, as content may be outdated compared to recent course activity and student submissions.
- In order for New Analytics to display in Canvas, third-party cookies may need to be enabled in your browser settings.
- The Conferences criteria only applies to BigBlueButton conferences. The Quizzes criteria only applies to Classic Quizzes.
- The New Analytics feature must be enabled by a Canvas admin at your institution.
Open Course
In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the name of the course [2].
Open New Analytics
To open New Analytics, click the New Analytics link in Course Navigation [1] or click the New Analytics button in the Course Home Page [2].
Note: If you cannot view the New Analytics link, you may have to make the link visible via the Navigation tab in Course Settings.
View Online Attendance Report
By default, the Online Attendance report displays attendance data for the current week [1].
The data table displays the name of each student [2], their section [3], the number of days they haven't met online attendance criteria [4], and their attendance status for each day [5].
If a student has met online attendance criteria for a given date, the date displays a Checkmark icon [6]. If a student has not met online attendance criteria for a given date, the date displays an X icon [7].
Filter Table by Date
The Online Attendance table can display data for a week or a day. To manage what displays in the table, click the Date drop-down menu [1] and select the Week option [2] or Day option [3].
To move to the previous week or date, click the Previous button [4]. To move to the next week or date, click the Next button [5].
Filter Table by Section or Student
You can also filter the Online Attendance table data to display specific students or course sections.
To search for student or section, enter a name in the Add a Section, Student field [1] or click the drop-down menu [2].
Selected students or sections display in the search field [3]. You can select a maximum of three students and/or sections to filter the Online Attendance table data. To remove a student or section filter, click the Remove icon [4].
Select Class Days
To select which days of the week attendance data is recorded for students, click the Class Days drop-down menu [1].
To select your class dates, click the Class Meet Days buttons [2]. Then click the Done button [3].
View Table
Any day of the week that is not selected as a class day displays as shaded in the Online Attendance table [1]. The Days Not Met column displays Online Attendance totals for class days. [2].
The Checkmark and X icons still display in dates that are not designated as class dates to indicate if students met attendance criteria on those dates [3].
Filter Table by Criteria Status
To filter the Online Attendance table by criteria status, click the Filter drop-down menu [1].
To show all students, select the Show All option [2]. To show students who have not met criteria for every class day, select the Criteria Not Met option [3]. To show students who have met criteria for every class date, select the Criteria Met option [4].
View Criteria Settings
To view criteria settings managed by your institution, click the Settings button [1].
If your institution allows you to set attendance criteria at the course level, you can enable or disable the Online Attendance dashboard in New Analytics for each of your courses [2].
You can also select your own criteria. Criterion that count toward online attendance display a checkmark icon [3]. Criterion that do not count toward online attendance display an empty checkbox [4].
Click the Save Settings button [5].
You can manage your item banks within any quiz in New Quizzes. Item banks can be shared with other users in your account with a teacher, TA, or admin role. Sharing an item bank allows other users to view, edit, and use the item bank.
You can also open New Quizzes to manage item banks by creating a new quiz.
Open Item Banks
In Course Navigation, click the Item Banks link.
Notes:
- You can also access quizzes from the Assignments page.
- You can also access Item Banks from the New Quizzes Build page.
View Item Banks
By default, the Item Banks page displays the This Course filter, which displays item banks shared with the course [1]. You can also select between viewing All Banks (all item banks created by or shared with the user and course), Institution Banks (item banks shared by your institution), and Banks Shared to Course (item banks shared with any courses in which you are enrolled).
To search for item banks, enter a search term in the Search field [2].
Each item bank includes the date it was last updated [3] and the number of questions [4].
To create a new item bank, click the Add Bank button [5].
View Items
View the items in the item bank [1].
To search for an item, enter the search criteria in the Search field [2]. Search results will display items with matching results in question titles, question stems, and answer choices.
To filter search results, click the Add Filters button [3].
To share an item bank with the current course, click the Share with [current course name] checkbox [4]. Deselect the checkbox to unshare the item bank.
Note: You must have the correct permissions to share and unshare item banks.
View Search Filters
Search results can be filtered by tags or item type.
To filter results by tags, click the Tags and Metadata field and select a tag [1]. Selected tags will display in the Tags and Metadata field [2]. Tags can be created when editing an item bank item.
To filter results by item type, click the item type options you want to view [3].
Manage Items
To edit an item bank item, click the Edit icon [1]. To move or copy an item to another item bank, click the Copy icon [2]. To delete an item, click the Delete icon [3].
To return to your item bank, click the Item Banks link [4].
Edit Item Bank
To edit an item bank, click the Edit icon.
Edit Item Bank Name
To change the name of the item bank, enter the name in the Bank Name field [1]. To save the item bank name, click the Save Changes button [2].
Delete Item Bank
To delete an item bank, click Delete icon.
Confirm Deletion
View the warning message for deleting item banks [1].
To delete the item bank, click the Delete button [2]. To keep the item bank, click the Cancel button [3].
Notes:
- Items added to a quiz individually are not removed from the quiz when the item bank is deleted. Question groups that use a random number of item bank items are not available after the item bank is deleted.
- Once an item bank is deleted, it also loses its statistical link to reports.
You can easily import quizzes from programs that create QTI files. If a program does not create QTI files, it cannot be imported into Canvas.
QTI files can be created from a variety of different learning management systems and software:
- Quizzes created in Respondus 4.0 (Windows software) can be exported as QTI packages. To learn how to use Respondus 4.0 refer to this user guide (DOC). A QuickStart guide for Respondus 4.0 is also available (PDF).
- Quizzes created in Blackboard (WebCT, Angel) can be exported as QTI packages.
- Quizzes created in Moodle can be exported as QTI packages. This will work with Moodle 2.0 or older versions. However, Moodle 2.1 and newer versions no longer export QTI packages.
Notes:
- Canvas supports QTI versions 1.2 and 2.1.
- Quiz exports will not include questions from quizzes which use randomly selected questions from question banks.
Open Settings
In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.
Import Content into Course
Click the Import Course Content button.
Select Content Type
In the drop-down menu, select the QTI .zip file option.
Choose File
Click the Choose File button.
Open File
Find and click the ZIP file you want to import [1]. Click the Open button [2].
View Import Options
You can manage options for your import before it is created.
If New Quizzes is enabled in your course, you can convert quizzes in the import package to the New Quizzes format [1].
You can also overwrite assessment content with matching IDs [2].
Import Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes
If allowed by your institution, you can import existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes checkbox.
If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution, questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating to New Quizzes.
Notes:
- The Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes option only displays for courses that have enabled New Quizzes.
- If you have enabled New Quizzes but the option does not display, your institution has not enabled New Quizzes migration upon import.
- You cannot select a default question bank when using the Import assessment content as New Quizzes option.
- New Quizzes does not include a survey feature. Therefore, surveys migrated from Classic Quizzes come over as standard quizzes in New Quizzes.
- After migration to New Quizzes, multiple dropdown questions display as matching questions.
- Text No Question questions migrate to New Quizzes as Stimulus questions. An instructor must add a question in order for it to display in a quiz.
- Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.
- If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas uses smart merging to decipher the question bank content that should be retained. This process helps ensure all content is retained, such as in cases where multiple users may be making edits to a quiz at the same time.
- Practice quizzes from Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes. Once migrated, by default, the practice quizzes are displayed as zero points possible and are hidden from the Gradebook and Grades page.
Overwrite Assessment Content
To overwrite the assessment content with matching IDs, click the Overwrite assessment content with matching IDs checkbox.
Some systems recycle their IDs for each new export. Therefore, if you export two separate question banks they will have the same IDs. To prevent losing assessment data Canvas treats the question banks as separate objects despite the IDs. Choosing this option will disable this safety feature and allow assessment data to overwrite existing data with the same IDs.
Select Question Bank
In the Default Question bank drop-down menu, select the Question bank you want to use for your question bank.
Create Question Bank
If you do not have a question bank you want to use, you can create a new question bank. In the drop-down menu, select the Create new question bank option.
Import Course
Click the Import button [1].
A progress indicator displays the upload status by percentage [2].
View Current Jobs
The Current Jobs section displays the status of your import. Running reports display a progress bar indicating the time remaining to complete the import.
The import may also display other status indicators as part of the import process. Learn more about course import statuses.
When the course has completed, view your quizzes by accessing the Quizzes page in Course Navigation.
Note: If you imported your assessments to New Quizzes, you can view your quizzes from the Assignments page.
If you are allowed to create Canvas courses, you can copy a course and create a new course shell. Copied courses are added to the same subaccount as the course that is copied.
Courses should be copied when you want to use or repurpose previously created content including course settings, syllabus, assignments, modules, files, pages, discussions, quizzes, and question banks. You can also copy or adjust events and due dates as well as bulk migrate quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. You can also copy or adjust events and due dates. Not all content can be copied as part of a course.
When you copy a Canvas course using the Copy this Course button, you will be added to the course as an instructor automatically.
Learn more about the Course Import Tool.
Notes:
- Course imports may not include all content. For more details, please see the import content section in the Canvas Basics Guide.
- Importing a course more than once may have unintended consequences. If you import content into a new course, edit the content in the new course, and later import the previous content again, the imported content will override the existing content.
- If the Copy this Course button does not appear in Course Settings, this feature has been restricted by your institution. However, if you already have access to a course shell, you can copy a course through the Course Import Tool.
- Copies of existing Canvas courses and course files reference the original Canvas course file quota and do not count against course file quotas.
- If you copy all content or include course settings in selected content, the grade posting policy from the original course will override the grade posting policy in the new course. Additionally, imported assignments will retain their assignment posting policy from the original course.
- If you are unable to find your course, it may be located under Courses in the Global Navigation.
- When a course is copied that includes a new quiz with an item bank, the item bank is shared with the new course automatically.
Open Course
In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the name of the course [2].
Open Settings
In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.
Copy Course Content
Click the Copy this Course link.
Create Course Details
Enter the Name [1] and Course Code [2] for the new course. The name will be displayed on the Course Home Page and in Conversations. The course code will be displayed at the top of the Course Navigation menu and in the course card in the dashboard. Course code is also referred to as the reference code or short name.
Enter the Start date [3] and End date [4] for the new course.
Note: If the current course includes course override dates in Course Settings, the Start and End date fields will be populated with those dates.
Select Migration Content
To import all content from the course, select the All Content radio button [1].
If you want to select specific content, click the Select specific content radio button [2].
Note: If you select the specific content option, you are required to select the content you want to import; this action cannot be cancelled.
Bulk Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes
If allowed by your institution, you can bulk migrate existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes checkbox.
If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution, questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating to New Quizzes.
Notes:
- New Quizzes does not include a survey feature. Therefore, surveys migrated from Classic Quizzes come over as standard quizzes in New Quizzes.
- After migration to New Quizzes, multiple dropdown questions display as matching questions.
- Text No Question questions migrate to New Quizzes as Stimulus questions. An instructor must add a question in order for it to display in a quiz.
- Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.
- If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas uses smart merging to decipher the question bank content that should be retained. This process helps ensure all content is retained, such as in cases where multiple users may be making edits to a quiz at the same time.
- Practice quizzes from Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes. Once migrated, by default, the practice quizzes are displayed as zero points possible and are hidden from the Gradebook and Grades page.
Adjust Events and Due Dates
If you want to adjust the due dates associated with the course events and assignments, click the Adjust events and due dates checkbox.
Copy Blueprint Course Settings
You can copy settings from a blueprint course into another blueprint course. Copying blueprint settings applies the same lock preferences to objects as the original blueprint course. To copy settings from a blueprint course, click the Copy Blueprint Course Settings checkbox.
Create Course
Click the Create Course button.
View Current Jobs
The Current Jobs section displays the status of your import. Running reports display a progress bar indicating the time remaining to complete the import [1].
If you chose to select specific content in your course, the current job will show as Waiting for Select [2], which means you must select the content you want to import.
The import may also display other status indicators as part of the import process. Learn more about course import statuses.
View the content from any completed imports by accessing any link in Course Navigation.
You can view Canvas Studio video quiz results in Canvas. The Quiz and Item Analysis report includes statistics for the entire quiz, as well as for individual items.
You can also view individual student results.
Note: Canvas Studio quiz and item analysis statistics are based on those generated by Canvas New Quizzes. You can learn more about the statistics.
Open Embedded Video
Open the Canvas feature area that contains the embedded Studio quiz you want to view.
Open Quiz Results
Click the Quiz Results tab.
Note: If the Quiz Results tab does not display, this feature has not been enabled in your account. Please contact your admin for more information.
Generate Quiz and Item Analysis Report
From the Quiz Reports drop-down menu, select the Quiz and Item Analysis option [1]. Then, click the Generate Report button [2].
Note: To generate quiz results, there must be quiz data from at least three students.
View Quiz Analysis
The report displays the quiz title [1] and the report generation date and time [2]. To incorporate quiz data available after the report generation date and time, click the Generate Report button [3].
The quiz report displays the following statistics [4]:
- High Score: highest percentage score
- Low Score: lowest percentage score
- Mean Score: average percentage score
- Median Score: median percentage score
- Mean Elapsed Time: average time taken to complete the quiz
The Score Distribution graph displays the distribution of earned scores. Each bar displays the total number of students [5] who received the corresponding percentage score [6].
View Expanded Quiz Analysis
Click the Expand/Collapse icon [1]. The following statistics display:
- Standard Deviation [2]: amount of variation from the mean score in percentage
- Cronbach's Alpha [3]: an internal consistency measure that estimates the reliability of a quiz
View Item Analysis
In the Item Analysis section, you can view each item's title [1], question type [2], and question stem [3]. You can also view the following statistics:
- Item Difficulty [4]: measures the proportion of students who answered the question correctly
- Mean Earned Points [5]: displays the average point score out of the maximum possible points
- Median Earned Points [6]: displays the median point score out of the maximum possible points
- Discrimination Index [7]: assesses the ability of an item to differentiate between the highest scoring and lowest scoring students
Note: For more details about a statistic, click an Information icon [8].
View Expanded Item Analysis
To view additional item analysis details, click the item Expand/Collapse icon [1]. You can view:
- Corrected Item-Total Correlation Coefficient [2]: measures the correlation between a given item and the total score
- Answer Frequency Summary Chart [3]: displays each answer choice along with the number and percentage of respondents (students) who selected the answer choice
Note: Correct answers display a check mark [4].
As an admin, you can enable an Online Attendance report for courses that have enabled New Analytics. Once it is enabled, you can select attendance criteria from the Online Attendance Report settings.
The Online Attendance report displays students as present or absent based on whether they have met any of the selected attendance criteria on a given day.
Notes:
- The Online Attendance report cannot be managed at the sub-account level.
- Data is refreshed in New Analytics every 24 hours. Please confirm the time data was last updated in the course, as content may be outdated compared to recent course activity and student submissions.
- The Online Attendance criteria can be set for a course by a teacher if the teacher role has the Manage LTI permission enabled.
Open Settings
In Account Navigation, click the Settings link.
Open App Settings
In the External Apps list, locate the New Analytics app [1]. Click the Settings button [2] and select the Configure option [3].
Configure Online Attendance Report
The Online Attendance settings display in the page [1].
To enable the Online Attendance report, click the Enable Online Attendance Dashboard button [2].
To allow instructors to set attendance criteria at the course level, click the Allow instructors to set Online Attendance Criteria at the course level button [3]. Additionally, the teacher role must have the Manage LTI permission enabled.
To select the criteria that determine online attendance, click the Attendance Criteria checkboxes [4]. You can select the following criteria:
- Course Access: student views a page in a course
- Posts: student posts a new comment to an announcement or a discussion
- Assignments: student submits an assignment
- Collaborations: student loads a collaboration to view/edit document
- Conferences: student joins a web conference
- Pages: student creates a page
- Quizzes: student starts taking a quiz or submits a quiz
If a student meets the requirements of any selected criteria, they will be marked as present for that day in the Online Attendance report.
To save your Online Attendance settings, click the Save Settings button [5]. To close the settings window without saving, click the Close button [6].
Notes:
- The Conferences criteria only applies to BigBlueButton conferences.
- The Quizzes criteria only applies to Classic Quizzes.
If you have a Canvas course export package from someone else that you want to use in Canvas, or you have previously exported a course, you can import the course as a Canvas course export package. An export package is imported as an IMSCC file.
Notes:
- When imported into a course, course exports have the same limitations as course imports. For more details, learn more about the Course Import Tool.
- When importing a Canvas course export package, the package will overwrite some of the existing course settings. For example, if your destination course is set up with a private copyright, and you import a package that has a creative commons (CC) copyright, the copyright license in the destination course will change from Private to CC. Please review the course setting after any course import to make sure important settings are still in place.
- You cannot modify an existing quiz by importing a modified version. Imports can only be used when creating a quiz for the first time. If you import the same quiz multiple times, previously imported quizzes will not be overwritten, It will produce multiple copies of the same quiz.
- Courses are allotted a specific file size limit for file storage. Your course export package file size must be smaller than the quota for your course as shown in course statistics. If you do not have enough storage space in your course to import the export package, please contact your Canvas administrator.
- Instructors will need to manually subscribe to or enable notifications for discussions and announcements after importing them into a new course.
- Canvas for Elementary export packages retain the Canvas for Elementary theme upon importing.
Open Settings
In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.
Import Content into Course
Click the Import Course Content link.
Select Content Type
In the Content Type drop-down menu, choose the Canvas Course Export Package option.
Choose File
Click the Choose File button.
Open File
Choose the .imscc file you want to import [1]. Click the Open button [2].
Select Migration Content
To import all content from the course, select the All Content radio button [1].
If you want to select specific content, click the Select specific content radio button [2].
Notes:
- If you select the specific content option, you are required to select the content you want to import after you review the remaining page options. After you start importing the content, the import selection cannot be canceled.
- If you select the specific content option, linked files and images in course content, such as in assignments, discussions, and pages, are not retained.
Bulk Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes
If allowed by your institution, you can bulk migrate existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes checkbox.
If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution, questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating to New Quizzes.
Notes:
- New Quizzes does not include a survey feature. Therefore, surveys migrated from Classic Quizzes come over as standard quizzes in New Quizzes.
- After migration to New Quizzes, multiple dropdown questions display as matching questions.
- Text No Question questions migrate to New Quizzes as Stimulus questions. An instructor must add a question in order for it to display in a quiz.
- Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.
- If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas uses smart merging to decipher the question bank content that should be retained. This process helps ensure all content is retained, such as in cases where multiple users may be making edits to a quiz at the same time.
- Practice quizzes from Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes. Once migrated, by default, the practice quizzes are displayed as zero points possible and are hidden from the Gradebook and Grades page.
Adjust Events and Due Dates
If you want to adjust the due dates associated with the course events and assignments, click the Adjust events and due dates checkbox.
View Content Import Warning Message
When importing content, a message displays explaining that importing the same course content or export package more than once overwrites any existing content in the course.
Import Course
Click the Import button [1].
A progress indicator displays the upload status by percentage [2].
View Current Jobs
The Current Jobs section displays the status of your import. Running reports display a progress bar indicating the time remaining to complete the import [1].
If you chose to select specific content in your course, the current job will show as Waiting for Select [2], which means you must select the content you want to import.
The import may also display other status indicators as part of the import process. Learn more about course import statuses.
View the content from any completed imports by accessing any link in Course Navigation.
- General
- How do I access New Quizzes?
- How is New Quizzes different from Classic Quizzes?
- Can I use New Quizzes along with the Classic Quizzes feature in Canvas?
- Will the quizzes I create become part of a permanent record?
- Will New Quizzes work with Canvas test and beta instances?
- What is LTI?
- Are Canvas roles and permissions recognized in New Quizzes?
- What is QTI and how is it used in New Quizzes?
- Does New Quizzes have an API?
- Are Canvas Partner integrations supported?
- Features
- How do I use New Quizzes?
- Is the Hot Spot item type accessible?
- How can I preview a New Quiz as a student?
- Can a question be duplicated?
- Is it possible to delete attempts?
- Is it possible to see which students got which version of the quiz?
- How do I give extra credit on a New Quiz?
- Is the Rich Content Editor fully integrated with New Quizzes?
- Is there partial credit grading for items?
- If I import a quiz a second time, will my changes be reflected in the previously imported quiz?
- What are Question Banks vs Question Groups? How do they appear when migrated to a New Quiz?
- Can a Classic Quiz migrate to New Quizzes?
- How do I create surveys in New Quizzes? [NEW]
- Does New Quizzes work with the Learning Mastery Gradebook?[NEW]
- How do I use Rich Content Editor in Fill-in-the-blank questions to format questions for specific que...
- Is Anonymous Grading supported in New Quizzes? [NEW]
General
How do I access New Quizzes?
All Canvas customers can use New Quizzes. If you don't have access to New Quizzes yet —
- If you're an instructor, please contact your Canvas admin
- If you're are a Canvas admin, please contact your Customer Success Manager
To get started, you can follow the steps in this article on how to create a quiz using New Quizzes.
New Quizzes is not currently available in Free for Teacher accounts. Availability will be determined at a later date.
How is New Quizzes different from Classic Quizzes?
New Quizzes is a new assessment engine built to meet the assessment needs in your classroom today and in the future. Leveraging modern technologies, New Quizzes include a series of feature enhancements and new item types, and bring workflow improvements to what is commonly encountered in Classic Quizzes.
To see how New Quizzes compares to existing quizzes, please see our New Quizzes Feature Comparison.
Can I use New Quizzes along with the Classic Quizzes feature in Canvas?
Yes. Until an end-of-life date for Classic Quizzes is announced, if your institution has configured New Quizzes, both tools can be used in the same Canvas course. As communicated in the New Quizzes Timeline Overview, our top priority is developing New Quizzes, so we will not be adding any new features to Classic Quizzes. However, we will continue to fix critical bugs and maintain the product.
Will the quizzes I create become part of a permanent record?
Yes, once the tool is configured in your instance, the data is a part of the permanent course record.
Will New Quizzes work with Canvas test and beta instances?
New Quizzes is available in the Canvas beta environment. This includes support for blueprint courses, quiz copy, course copy, and quiz migration. Reports, statistics, item bank search, and item bank tagging are not currently supported in the beta environment.
Outcomes added to Canvas in the beta environment after the beta refresh will not display in the New Quizzes beta environment. Outcomes must be added to the production environment to display in the beta environment.
At this time, New Quizzes cannot be used in the Canvas test instance.
What is LTI?
Learning Tools Interoperability, or LTI, is a framework for integrating LMS products with learning applications. It provides an open standards alternative to proprietary extension frameworks that are vendor-specific.
An LTI launch will pass some user context data from the LMS, and the learning application can optionally pass back a grade or content. Learning applications can serve many different purposes.
LTI dramatically improves options for LMS users and allows for better scaling of New Quizzes to meet the assessment needs of our users without the need to manually scale for high traffic times.
Are Canvas roles and permissions recognized in New Quizzes?
Currently New Quizzes recognizes a few specific roles from Canvas (i.e. teacher), however, Canvas does not send granular permissions to New Quizzes. We are currently planning the work to carry over Canvas Permissions into New Quizzes so that permissions applied to Canvas roles will carry over in New Quizzes.
What is QTI and how is it used in New Quizzes?
Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification is a standard format for quizzes that enables the exchange of item and test content and results data between authoring tools, item banks, test construction tools, learning platforms, assessment delivery systems, and scoring/analytics engines.
QTI packages are used to import in various ways. Users can import quizzes from QTI packages in New Quizzes to create a new quiz and can import questions from a QTI package into an item bank. Once your institution has enabled the New Quizzes Migration During Course Import/Copy feature option, you can also convert quizzes in QTI packages to the New Quizzes format when using the Course Import Tool.
Resources:
How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes?
How do I import questions from a QTI package into an item bank in New Quizzes?
How do I import quizzes from QTI packages? - Instructure Community
Currently, on the roadmap, we are working on updating migration functionality by converting Quiz Data to a QTI package for export.
Does New Quizzes have an API?
API endpoints for quiz and item CRUD operations are in production and available for Canvas’ New Quizzes. To get started with the API endpoints, we have provided comprehensive documentation. Additional API endpoints are planned for future development. All updates are outlined in the API change logs.
Are Canvas Partner integrations supported?
Partner integrations require the right types of API endpoints for the integration to be successful. Since general availability, we have been working to make our endpoints available for our partners to build their integrations. We are in active conversation with our partners to ensure this process happens smoothly. Please note that the Rich Content Editor in New Quizzes now supports third-party applications.
Features
How do I use New Quizzes?
You can find detailed information about functionality in New Quizzes using the New Quizzes Chapter in the Instructor Guide.
Is the Hot Spot item type accessible?
No. Hot spot questions are not accessible for users who require keyboard-only access or screen readers. The functionality of a hot spot question type conflicts with being able to access a question by keyboard or a screen reader because the keyboard would identify the hot spots by location and the screen reader would read the locations out loud.
How can I preview a New Quiz as a student?
You can preview and test quiz questions and settings from a student’s perspective by using Quiz Preview. This article explains how to open Quiz Preview, submit a quiz, and view student results as a student.
Can a question be duplicated?
Once an item has been added to an item bank, it can be easily copied or moved between item banks. Individual questions in New Quizzes can also be duplicated, see this article in the Instructor Guide.
Is it possible to delete attempts?
While you can remove an extra attempt as in the instructor guide, it only means you can reduce the number of extra attempts. You cannot delete an already submitted quiz.
Is it possible to see which students got which version of the quiz?
By selecting the student’s attempt from the Moderation page, you will see the questions the student was given, along with their answers. The version itself is not explicitly shown.
How do I give extra credit on a New Quiz?
Extra credit can be added to a quiz attempt using fudge points or through regrading. This article provides instructions for giving extra credit in a course.
Additionally, check out this video from our Dear Danielle series on Extra Credit.
Is the Rich Content Editor fully integrated with New Quizzes?
The Rich Content Editor (RCE) is now integrated with New Quizzes, meaning that the same RCE is used across Canvas, including New Quizzes. It is important to note that future updates to the RCE will also be made to New Quizzes, however, these updates may feel slightly delayed compared to the rest of Canvas.
Within New Quizzes, the Rich Content Editor is available in the following features:
- Quiz building:
- Quiz Instructions
- Question stems for all question types
- Student feedback for all question types
- Possible answers for the following question types:
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Answer
- Ordering
- Fill in the blank
- Quiz taking: Essay question type if RCE is enabled in question settings
Is there partial credit grading for items?
Partial credit grading functionality is supported for Matching, Fill-In-The-Blank and Multiple Answer question types.
Development for other question types is still under discussion and can be found under the theme “Build dynamic question types”. Likely additional item types for this functionality will include:
- Ordering
- Categorization
Similar functionality is available in the Multiple Choice question type, which allows points to be varied for individual answers.
If I import a quiz a second time, will my changes be reflected in the previously imported quiz?
No. You cannot modify an existing quiz by importing a modified version. Imports can only be used when creating a quiz for the first time. If you import the same quiz multiple times, previously imported quizzes will not be overwritten, It will produce multiple copies of the same quiz.
What are Question Banks vs Question Groups? How do they appear when migrated to a New Quiz?
Question Banks are a collection of questions stored in Canvas that can be pulled into a Classic Quiz. Their behavior is analogous to Item Banks in New Quizzes. Question Groups are sections in a Classic Quiz that contain a set of specific questions. Canvas can randomly choose some or all of the questions for a student as part of the quiz.
Question banks used in a classic quiz can be imported into New Quizzes and will be converted to Item Banks. The question banks need to be on a quiz in order for them to be imported. We are still refining the process, which is now in beta. Test it out via the information noted in Beta Release Notes: New Quizzes Migration (2021-12-22)
When a classic quiz is migrated to new quizzes, here is how question banks and question groups appear:
Classic Quizzes - types of questions |
What it will look like in New Quizzes |
Single Question - not associated with a Question Bank or Group |
Single Question located in the quiz |
Question associated with a Question Bank |
Item Bank |
Inline Question in Question Groups |
Item bank |
Can a Classic Quiz migrate to New Quizzes?
Yes. While New Quizzes migration supports all question types, you should still review your quizzes for assigning them to students. For more information on quiz migration, How do I migrate a Canvas quiz to New Quizzes?
How do I create surveys in New Quizzes? [NEW]
While the current survey experience available in Classic Quizzes will not be exactly replicated in New Quizzes, our team is committed to providing key aspects of survey functionality into New Quizzes. Planned survey functionality on our New Quizzes Roadmap include the following:
- Gather Anonymous Student Feedback
- Zero point quizzes do not display in the Gradebook (currently available)
- Anonymous Grading in New Quizzes (currently available)
- Do not count this assignment towards the final grade (currently available)
- Complete/Incomplete (currently available)
For some existing ways to get survey functionality within New Quizzes, Instructors may set a quiz to 0 points and select “do not mark this assessment towards the final grade”. Additionally, instructor’s can support survey functionality by making sure that “Student Result View” in the Settings are restricted so students do not see “answers” for the survey.
Some recommended question types for survey functionality in New Quizzes:
- Multiple Answer
- Essay (can also be used for short answer/response)
- True/False
- File Upload
- Fill in the Blank (free response)
If you are interested, our Training and Strategic Services team offer paid services to help instructors create surveys in New Quizzes utilizing the above workflows. If you need tools that are built specifically for survey functionality, we encourage you to reference our Canvas Partners space in the Community for external survey tool providers that can integrate in Canvas. Examples of common free/paid survey solutions include Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, EvaluationKIT by Watermark, Qualtrics, and eLumen.
Does New Quizzes work with the Learning Mastery Gradebook? [NEW]
As announced in this blog post, New Quizzes data flows back to the Learning Mastery Gradebook and Admin-level Outcome Results report.
How do I use Rich Content Editor in Fill-in-the-blank questions to format questions for specific question types? [NEW]
With the release of Rich Content Editor in Fill-in-the-blank questions, formatting questions in different ways has become much easier. This blog post includes examples of how it can be used specifically to ask questions compatible with the NCLEX licensure examination.
Is Anonymous Grading supported in New Quizzes? [NEW]
Yes, you can use anonymous grading in New Quizzes. Learn more about creating an anonymously graded quiz in New Quizzes.
The Hide Grades feature only affects previously posted grades for an assignment. Best practice suggests that instructors should use this feature sparingly (i.e. to hide grades posted in error). To hide all grades upon entry until you are ready to post them for student view, please set a manual posting policy for your assignment.
If you need to hide grades or submission comments that have already posted for students to view, you can hide grades and/or comments in the gradebook or in SpeedGrader. This lesson explains how to hide grades for an assignment that has already been graded and is currently displaying grades to students.
The Hide Grades feature only affects previously entered grades and submission comments. If you want newly-entered grades to be hidden from students, you can set a manual posting policy for an assignment or set a manual posting policy for a course. Assignment-level posting policies override course-level policies for that assignment.
When you hide assignment grades and submission comments, the student grades page displays a visibility icon so students know the assignment grade is hidden. Students will be unable to view their grades, including grade and score changes, instructor submission comments, Canvas DocViewer comments, and curved grades for the assignment, until the assignment grades are posted. Additionally, students will not receive grade or instructor comment notifications until the assignment grades are posted. In Gradebook exports and reports, hidden grades are part of unposted grades.
The Hide Grades feature should only be used to temporarily hide grades and comments from student view while grading is in progress. It should not be used to conceal grades for longer than reasonably necessary.
If you do not want students to be able to view their total grade, you can hide the total grade from students. Learn more about managing grade visibility in your course and view the interactive Student Grade Visibility Flowchart.
Notes:
- If you make changes to an assignment with hidden grades, the total score as you see it (in both the Gradebook and the student Grades page) will be affected. However, students will not see any changes when they view their Grades page. Once you post the assignment grades, the total grade in the student's view will update accordingly.
- Anonymous and moderated assignments are hidden by default. Moderated assignments cannot be unhidden until final grades have been posted.
- Students can see peer review comments when assignment grades are hidden. However, students can only see instructor comments if the instructor posts grades or submission comments.
- If you post grades for an assignment with varied due dates, all students will receive score results at the same time.
- Viewing the Total Column in the Gradebook may be restricted when multiple grading periods are enabled.
- In Classic Quizzes, students will not be able to see their quiz responses in Quizzes while quiz grades are hidden.
- In New Quizzes, hiding grades will not affect a student's ability to access their quiz scores. Student visibility of New Quizzes scores must be managed from the quiz settings menu.
- If you have set an automatic post policy for an assignment or for your course, manually hiding grades only hides assignment scores already in the gradebook. Any scores added to the gradebook after manually hiding grades follow the selected post policy and are visible to students.
Open Grades
In Course Navigation, click the Grades link.
Open Assignment Menu
Hover over the assignment column header and click the Options icon.
Open Hide Grades Tray
Click the Hide grades link.
View Other Messages
If student grades and submission comments are already hidden, the Options menu displays that all grades are hidden [1]. To post student grades, click the Post grades link [2].
If there are no grades on the assignment, the Options menu will display that there are no grades to hide or post [3].
Select Sections
To hide grades for specific sections, click the Specific Sections button [1]. Then select the sections where you want to hide grades [2].
Note: You cannot hide grades for specific sections in anonymous assignments.
Hide Grades
Click the Hide button.
View Gradebook
Assignments with hidden grades display the Visibility icon [1].
A Visibility icon also displays in the students' Total column [2]. This indicates that the final grade differs from the final grade that students can view in their Grades page.
To post assignment grades, click the assignment's Options icon [3].
Notes:
- The Total column only displays graded assignments that have been hidden. Assignments that are set as Not Graded are not affected.
- Viewing the Total Column in the Gradebook may be restricted when multiple grading periods are enabled.