How to Migrate Quiz Content to the New Quiz Tool
What is the New Quiz Tool?
The new quiz tool is the new quizzing engine that will eventually replace the current quiz tool. Please review the following pages for details on features comparisons and how to use the new quiz tool.
Please note you must migrate quiz content from the current quiz tool to the new quiz tool. When you are ready to migrate content, please review this page carefully. If you have questions or need help with the migration process, please contact Information Systems & Services.
Important Migration Notes
Please note the following about the migration process.
- New quizzes is currently a course level feature option and must be enabled in the course settings. See New Quiz Tool Overview for the latest updates for the new quiz tool.
- It is important to note that currently, the new quiz tool can only accept imports from newer QTI standard (QTI 1.2 and 2.x). If you have publisher content that uses the older QTI standard (QTI 1.1), you must import the content into the current quiz tool. Then you can choose one of the migration options. See Importing Quiz Questions into Canvas.
- None of the migration options listed below will work with a quiz that uses question groups with linked question banks! If this is how your quizzes are setup, please review other tabbed sections of this page for guidance.
- In the new quiz tool, question banks are called items banks and the banks are tied to person and not the course. This means that the person who migrated content is the only person that has access to the item banks regardless if there are other people in the course in the teacher role. Item banks can be shared with other people in the teacher role after the August 17, 2019 release Links to an external site.. It is important to note when you share an item bank, the person you are sharing the item bank with will have the same read/write permissions.
- When you view item banks in new quiz tool you will see ALL item banks from ALL courses. It is important to give item banks descriptive names so you can quickly pick an item bank to view. It may be useful to use the course name as part of the naming scheme for item banks.
- Example: Ch01 becomes BIO-100 Ch01
- It is important to note that none of the quiz settings will migrate. Be sure to reapply your desired settings for the quiz once the quiz has been migrated to the new quiz tool.
- Please note the following question types will not migrate to new quiz tool. These question types must be manually recreated in the new quiz tool.
- Numeric and file upload questions are not supported by the migration tool
- Please note the following question types will migrate as different question types. These questions must edited as the question type they migrate as or be recreated as the desired question type in the new quiz tool.
- Multiple drop down questions display as matching questions
- Fill-in-the-blank and formula questions display as essay questions
- Fill-in-multiple-blank questions display as matching questions
Review Content in Current Quiz Tool
It is important to review your current quiz content before you migrate. This can help you determine how you have structured your quizzes in the current quiz tool. If you are not sure how your quizzes are structured, edit a quiz and review the numbered items below. After reviewing the structure of your quizzes, you may want to create new quizzes just for the purpose of migrating content as desired. Edit a quiz and switch over to the questions tab. Review the numbered items below and then review the migration options listed in the next section of this page. Choose the option that will work best for how your quizzes are setup.
- At the bottom of the page are the ways to add questions. Please note when you use New Question option, the questions are stored in question bank called "unfiled questions" (see the question bank sub-heading below). If you need to recreate your quizzes to prepare for migration, be sure to use the Find Question option to locate your questions in the question banks.
- If you use a question group with link to a question bank, it is important to understand that the questions WILL NOT migrate to the new quiz tool! None of the options listed below will work. Create a new quiz and add ALL questions directly to the quiz. Then you can use any of migration options listed below.
- If you use a question group with questions added directly to the group, use option 1 or 2 to migrate the content (see next section). Please note if using option 2 the questions will be added to the quiz as group set and an item bank for each question group will be created.
- Questions added directly to the quiz will migrate using any of the options listed below. Please note if using option 2 or 3, the questions will only exist in the migrated quiz. If you wish to add questions to an item bank, each question must be edited to be able to add the question to an item bank. There is no bulk add option.
Review and Organize Question Banks
If you have used the new question option to create your quiz questions or were using linked banks in question groups, you may want to review your question bank content in the current quiz tool so you can organize questions in an orderly manner so it will be easier to create your migration quizzes. You can access the question banks from the quiz index page. Click the options menu ( ) and select Manage Question Banks.
On the question bank screen be sure to review the content in the unfiled question bank. Click the title to view.
Use the options to move the questions into other banks. Once you are done organizing content in the question banks you will be ready to create quizzes based on your question bank organization.
Related Canvas Guides
- 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 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.
Overview of Quiz Migration Options
The new quiz tool is integrated with Canvas; however, quizzes in the current quiz tool must be migrated to the new quiz tool. There are three different ways to migrate content from the current quiz tool to new quiz tool. There are pros and cons for each option. Please review the notes for each migration option carefully before migrating any content. Click an item to view or use the expand all option to see all items in the list.