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New Quizzes provides a modern, robust assessment experience with enhanced performance and scalability, designed to meet both current and future classroom assessment needs. New Quizzes offers an improved user experience along with expanded functionality, including advanced accommodation settings, a wider variety of question types, enhanced collaboration tools, and streamlined migration options. To see a breakdown of how New Quizzes compares to Classic Quizzes, please see our New Quizzes Feature Comparison.
Yes, New Quizzes can be used in tandem with Classic Quizzes.
Classic Quizzes currently has no set end-of-life date.
New Quizzes is supported in the Production and Beta environments. This includes support for blueprint courses, quiz copy, course copy, and quiz migration. We do not plan to support New Quizzes testing in the Canvas Test environment.
Note: To test Outcomes in New Quizzes (NQ) within Beta environments, the Outcomes must first be added in the Production environment to appear in Beta. Additionally, NQ reports in Beta reflect submissions made within the Beta environment.
We encourage you to check with your third party vendor to confirm if they have an integration with New Quizzes.
Yes, APIs are available for New Quizzes.
New Quizzes meets VPAT WCAG 2.1 accessibility requirements, and is underway to be WCAG 2.2 AA in 2026.
If your institution has enabled New Quizzes, you can enable it following the steps in this article. If you do not have access to New Quizzes:
Yes, users can import and export New Quizzes using QTI packages. 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.
No, neither Classic nor New Quizzes can be created from a word document.
Yes. New Quizzes migration supports all question types. Refer to this article for instructions on migrating a single quiz, and this article for migrating all quizzes and Item Banks within a course. We recommend instructors review migrated quizzes prior to publishing and/or assigning them to students.
Question Banks are collections of questions stored in Canvas that can be used in Classic Quizzes. Item Banks in New Quizzes function the same way.
Question Groups are sets of specific questions that can be grouped within a Classic Quiz, allowing Canvas to randomly select some or all of the questions for each student.
When a classic quiz is migrated to New Quizzes, here is how question banks and question groups appear:
Classic Quizzes |
How it’s migrated to New Quizzes |
Single question: not associated to a bank or group |
Single question located in the quiz |
Single question: associated to a bank or group |
Within an Item Bank |
Inline question in Question Groups |
Within an Item Bank |
Question Banks: not associated within a quiz |
As an Item Bank |
You can find detailed information about functionality in New Quizzes using the New Quizzes Chapter in the Instructor Guide.
Hot Spot questions are currently not accessible to keyboard-only and screen reader users, due to inherent challenges in how assistive technologies interact with Hot Spot’s location-based selections. This limitation is indicated via a tooltip in the UI. We recommend that educators consider alternative question types to ensure accessibility for all learners who use assistive technologies.
Yes, New Quizzes provides enhanced accommodation options and settings to better support diverse learner needs.
The same Rich Content Editor (RCE) is used across Canvas, including New Quizzes. Within New Quizzes, the Rich Content Editor is available in the following features:
We are hard at work to create a survey question type in New Quizzes, tentatively scheduled for release in Q4 2025. Until that is complete, instructors can utilize the following existing settings to gather student feedback. These include:
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.
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.
Yes, Canvas Commons supports New Quizzes content.
Yes, New Quizzes can be distributed within a Blueprint course.
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.
Yes, learn more in this article.
Partial credit grading functionality is supported for the for the following item types:
It is not currently available for:
Yes, you can use anonymous grading in New Quizzes. Learn more in this article.
While you can modify the number of attempts for individual students as described in this instructor guide, it only means you can reduce the number of extra attempts. You cannot delete an already submitted 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.
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.
Yes, New Quizzes data flows back to the Learning Mastery Gradebook and Admin-level Outcome Results report.
Yes, outcomes can be attached to either a single quiz question or an entire quiz.
Note: 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.
Note: You can only embed guides in Canvas courses. Embedding on other sites is not supported.
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