How to Create Quizzes in the Current Quiz Tool
Overview
With the current quiz tool, you can create a graded quiz from the Quizzes page. Click Quizzes tab in the left navigation. On the quiz page click +Quiz. When the quiz displays there are two tabs to configure in the process of creating a quiz. The Settings tab is the default and is used to configure the quiz settings as desired and the questions tab is where you can add or create questions. View the tabbed menu below for further details on creating quizzes.
Video Overview
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Important Notes
This guide is specifically about the current quiz tool. Instructure is currently developing a new quiz tool that will eventually replace the current quiz tool. If you are using the new quiz tool, please review the following guides.
- New Quiz Tool Overview - timeline of updates to the new quiz tool and when it will replace the current quiz tool.
- How to Migrate Quiz Content to the New Quiz Tool - Content in the current quiz must be migrated to the new quiz tool.
- How to Create Quizzes in the New Quiz Tool - How to create quizzes and maintain item banks
View the Importing Quiz Questions into Canvas document first BEFORE creating any quizzes in the current quiz tool!
Quizzes can be moderated for giving students extra attempts or extra time.
- Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time? Links to an external site.
Instructors can view the quiz statistics after students have completed attempts.
Canvas Guides
Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site.. Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Lake Land College instance of Canvas. If you have a question about a feature mentioned in these guides, please review Getting Help page for details on who to contact at Lake Land College.
- How do I use the Quizzes Index Page? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Draft State in Quizzes? Links to an external site.
- What quiz types can I create in a course? Links to an external site.
- What options can I set in a quiz? Links to an external site.
- How do I import quizzes from QTI packages? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a True/False quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create Likert scale quiz questions? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Matching quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create an Essay quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a File Upload quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I link course content to a quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I bookmark a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I unbookmark a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I delete a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another? Links to an external site.
- How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another? Links to an external site.
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz? Links to an external site.
- How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Direct Share to copy a quiz to another course? Links to an external site.
- How do I use Direct Share to send a quiz to another instructor? Links to an external site.
- How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time? Links to an external site.
- How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date? Links to an external site.
- How do I assign a quiz to an individual student? Links to an external site.
- How do I assign a quiz to a course section? Links to an external site.
- How do I delete a quiz? Links to an external site.
- How do I export quiz content from a course? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts? Links to an external site.
- Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time? Links to an external site.
- How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions? Links to an external site.
- How do I view student results in a quiz? Links to an external site.
- How do I view a quiz log for a student? Links to an external site.
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I regrade a True/False quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I create a survey in my course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view survey results in a course? Links to an external site.
- How do I view practice quiz results in a course? Links to an external site.