Canvas New Quizzes Seven years in the making Fortunes spent Multiple failed transitions Scores of dissatisfied users Nailed it!   All jokes aside, we were able to fix Canvas New Quizzes by doing the following: We used Moodle as an LTI provider   Here's how we did it: LTI Tool Provider Setup In your institutions Moodle** instance go to Administration > plugins > Enrolments > Publish as LTI tool > Tool Registration Click Register a Platform Enter the name of your Canvas instance or any name that makes sense to you Keep the resulting page open since you will need the links provided in the next steps.   Setup Canvas as an LTI Consumer In Canvas Go to Admin > Developer Keys Create a new Developer Key > LTI Key Use the "Manual Entry" method Give your tool a Title, description, and key name that makes sense to you  Copy the "deep linking URL" from the first step above as the "Target Link URI" Copy "Initiate Login URL" from the LTI provider tool setup above.  It should look something like this: https://YourMoodleInstance/enrol/lti/login.php?id=LONG_Alphanumeric_key Past the above URL from #6 into the "OpenID Connect Initiation URL" Set your JWK Method to "Public JWK URL" Set your Public JWK URL to https://YourMoodleInstance/enrol/lti/jwks.php Add both the launch and deep linking URLs to your Redirect URIs Toggle all options under LTI Advantage Services to on In the "additional settings" section, add an icon URL (or leave it blank) and put "force_embed=1" into the custom fields parameter (sans quotes) Set Privacy level to Public In placements, set "link selection" and remove the other prepopulated options In the link selection" section put https://YourMoodleSite/enrol/lti/launch_deeplink.php into the Target Link URI field. Set SelectMessageType to "LTIDeepLinkingRequest" Set an Icon URL or leave blank. Save Set your key state to ON Copy the number in the details column just above the "show key" button Add Moodle as an App in Canvas Canvas Admin > Settings > Apps Click View App Configurations Click +App Select "By ClientID" Paste in the number you copied in step 20 above and click submit Click Install In the newly created app, click the cog > Deployment ID Copy the Deployment ID Add the Deployment to Moodle In Moodle LTI Tool Registration > Edit your tool > Deployments Add a Deployment Give it a name Paste your deployment id from # 8 above Go Platform Details Tab "Canvas" as the platform name Enter your canvas instance URL as the PlatformID (issuer) (e.g. https://school.instructure.com) Copy the ClientID from the Developer key you created above (step 20) Paste into ClientID Enter https://YourCanvasURL/api/lti/authorize_redirect into Authentication request URL Enter https://YourCanvasURL/api/lti/security/jwks into Public Keyset URL Enter https:/YourCanvasURL/login/oauth2/token into Access token URL Save changes Your Tool should now have an "active" badge listed below: Now you can create quizzes in Moodle, with all the many quiz types and options you always wished Canvas had.  To add them to Canvas: create a quiz in Moodle Click "more" in the course menu > Published as LTI Tools Click Add Give it a name that makes sense to you Select the quiz or activity you want to use (you can use any Moodle activity or the entire course) You can leave most of the other options as they are by default   Now, in canvas: add an assignment > Submission Type > select "External Tool" Click Find Select the Tool you created earlier (e.g. MoodleQuizzes or whatever name you gave it) Select your quiz in the popup deep linking dialogue (pictured below) Click "Add Content" Click Select Complete the setup as per normal   These quizzes load directly in Canvas. For a seamless experience, have your Moodle admin match the Canvas styling by adjusting the site CSS.  Finally! A Canvas Quiz tool that actually works.  Nearly all the user complaints in the community forums have been answered with this one tool.   Here are a few of the question types available: Everything Canvas already has plus, Concordance of judgment concordance of reasoning drag and drop onto text drag and drop onto image drag and drop markers Autograde Essay Autograde short answer Gapfill Ordering Pattern Match (like Regexp but much easier for non-programmer types) Random Select Answers Record Audio/Video (student can upload an audio or video response) Select Missing Words Set Splitting Short answer with similarity match Word select Many many more In addition to question types, numerous question behaviours will allow you to use quizzes in a formative fashion: you can program your questions with unlimited incorrect answers with custom feedback for each response so students can get JiTT responses relevant to the mistake they might have made.  Students may then have an option of returning a different answer with or without penalties   ** Your institution will need a moodle instance to serve as an LTI provider.  This can be done by Dynamic registration as well, making the process much easier, but that didn't work for me.  YMMV.  Try Dynamic registration first and if that doesn't work use the manual method documented above. ... 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Agreed.  This is an essential function.  I am puzzled by the way the devs have currently handled the workflow.  The system lets you reopen the attempt and add additional time, but then the student is greeted with an immediate "Time is up" message after clicking continue. Please prioritize changes like this over the inconsequential features Instructure has been adding in recent months. ... View more

Agreed. How on earth did this get an accepted solution? ... View more

@Jeff_F , there is a reply button on posts, but only 1 level deep beyond the OP.  This makes no earthly sense and is nothing more than form over function.  I guess the devs did not like the look of several layers of nested replies and this was the best they could come up with.  I was testing the redesign on my course for about two days, until a student had a follow up question which I could not reply to... because there was no option to reply.  I hope that makes sense. There has to be a better way to resolve the issue of recursive discussions.  Perhaps rather than just removing the reply button, it can extend into a private message with the context attached.  Removing the reply is going to leave the teacher having to copy the message anyway and put it into an email.  The problem here, though is that other students might not benefit from the reply. Needless to say, I disabled the redesign.  It has some improvements, such as looking more modern, but with the missing functions, I had to go back to classic discussions. ... View more

@kmeeusen , Thanks for taking the time to reply. I actually haven't shared any of my question banks.  Everything became shared as soon as the July feature update was applied.  All of my users who have a site role that allows them to simply view content in a course, not even with permissions for item banks, have been given edit access to all question banks across the institution. Ostensibly, none of the role permissions appear to do anything to fix this problem.  One would expect that we could adjust the role permissions to get the behaviour we want, but it doesn't work this way. ... View more

Items banks in Canvas and the new sharing "feature" is badly broken.  Since the latest release all questions from every course have been dumped into "all my banks" with nothing at all showing up in "All my course banks".  What's more, these are shared across the institution if anyone has editing roles in a course and everyone sees all question banks from every course.  What a mess! Please give us the opportunity to turn off these new features until they have been fully baked. ... View more

It is disconcerting that there is no response to this thread.  Did you every find a solution to this problem? ... View more

I just found this idea that might be related. ... View more

Perhaps this has already been suggested, but I was unable to find it using the tags or search terms I thought would apply. There is a concept known as the “force multiplier” in military theory.  I think this is a useful metaphor when thinking about how questions are used in quizzes.  The utility of any given question could be greatly increased if it could be combined with other question types, so that one could ensure question A is followed by question B, even within a randomisation scenario. I realise one can already just create a static question layout followed by another question, but this results in a quiz that is non-dynamic and once-off.  I prefer to author quizzes in such a way that I can use it multiple times, categorising my questions and then populating the quiz with randomised questions.  This approach has the benefit of mitigating cheating and ensuring students engage the concept rather than the correct answer in multiple attempt scenarios. However, using this approach I cannot guarantee that two related questions appear together. If we were able to create a combined question type, similar to what you find in Moodle, then we could effectively link questions together, creating a somewhat contextually aware randomisation strategy.  I was hoping the stimulus question could be used in this way, but it seems not.  Perhaps stimulus questions could be extended so that they allow question linking as outlined above? I’d love to hear thoughts from the community on this. ... View more

Where did the upvote option go?  I want to add my voice to this five year old suggestion. Why are so many of the suggestions on "New" Quizzes so old? Has there been any development on "new" quizzes since it was initially released? ... View more

Thanks for bringing this up, @Stef_retired .  There is an obvious dearth in the New Quizzes feature set compared to old quizzes or quizzes in any other LMS for that matter.  It is inexplicable to me why Instructure continues prioritise minor features (such as history in the latest release) over much more impactful changes such as this one.  Let's hope for someone is reading these threads. All the best ... View more

Thanks for the helpful responses here.  My apologies for resurrecting an old thread... There seem to be a lot of questions and some misunderstanding around xAPI and how it fits in with LMS systems.  The linked suggestion is a good example of this.  An LMS is not meant to function as an LRS, although there are some functions in the two systems that might intersect.  This excerpt from xapi.com says it succinctly (emphasis mine): "The LRS is the heart of any xAPI ecosystem, receiving, storing and returning xAPI statements. You’ll need an LRS in order to do anything with xAPI. Every other tool which sends or retrieves learning activity data will interact with the LRS as the central store." So an LRS is a kind of business intelligence tool for education.  It collects, stores, and analyses learning events from a wide range of learning tools, not limited to the LMS. It is perhaps helpful to understand the working assumption of the designers of xAPI, that education happens in many different places, decentralised from the LMS.  So the LRS and xAPI are designed to federate learning from the confines of the LMS. It seems to me that we should be encouraging Instructure to add to Canvas the ability to send xAPI event data to an LRS for analysis.  I rather surprised that Canvas does not already have any function in this regard.  Canvas DOES support receipt of results from an external tool like H5P or similar into Canvas, but this is quite limited and is in no way coordinate with a complete xAPI ecosystem.  Moodle, Blackboard, Totara, Sakai, and many other LMS's already support xapi, so it is bizarre to me that Instructure have not begun to implement what many expect to be an industry standard protocol. I hope this helps to bring some clarity to the conversation. ... View more

This seems pretty simple from a programming point of view. This has been a feature suggestion for nearly 5 years and nothing has been done yet? ... View more

I found it... The add button is only available from the dot menu > manage item banks.  If you click on the Item banks icon, there is no add button.  Instructure, why?  This seems so senseless.  It's not like there is an economy of screen real estate in the slide out bank. ... View more

What?!?  When did that get in there? Here is what I see: ... View more

No, this is for new quizzes.  I am not using the classic quizzes as they are due to be deprecated in Q4.  Anyway, if you create a question bank in New Quizzes, there is no option to create a new question in the question bank.  You first have to go to the quiz, add a question, then add it to the question bank.  One could then duplicate that question and continue from there, but this only works if all your questions are of the same type. ... View more