Quizzes - How do you build quizzes?

Creating a Quiz

Ok, now it's time to roll up your sleeves and start building your quiz. You can either read the directions available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site. or you can watch the following video created by a Canvas user. This video is very thorough and methodically goes through the steps to creating a quiz.

Quiz Types

Aside from traditional, graded quizzes, the Canvas quiz tool also allows you to create:

Practice quizzes - these can be graded so your student will have feedback on their performance but the grades will not show up in the grade book and so will not count towards the final grade.
Graded surveys - students are given a set number of points for completing the survey. These points do show up in the grade book and will count towards the final grade.
Ungraded surveys - there are no points associated with this assignment and so it will not show up in the grade book.
If you want to try New Quizzes rather than Classic Quizzes, take a look at this run-down first.

Question Types

Question Banks

One of the most powerful features in Canvas Quizzes is the mighty Question Bank.

It allows you to quickly build a new quiz using a bank of previously used questions.
You can use the question bank along with the question group tool Links to an external site. to randomly create different quizzes for each student. For example, you may have three banks - categorized as easy, moderate, difficult - with 10 questions in each bank. You can then have Canvas randomly select three questions from each bank so every student will have nine questions evenly distributed amongst the easy, moderate, difficult categories but Student A's quiz will be different than Student B's quiz.
The Canvas Community site has directions on How to create a question bank Links to an external site. as well as How to use a Question Bank. Links to an external site.
You can also watch the following video that covers question banks:

Other Advanced Quiz Features

One of the great strengths of Canvas quizzes is its flexibility. There are a multitude of advanced features that allows you shift the quiz parameters to fit your needs.

Student who needs extra time on a quiz? You can give individual students extra time through the moderate quiz page Links to an external site..
You can also use the moderate quiz page to give a student an extra attempt.
Does a student need an extension on a quiz? Why, yes, you can do that as well by creating multiple due dates Links to an external site..
While it's important for your students to see the correct answers to the quizzes, you may want to control just when those answers become available Links to an external site..
You can also create extra-credit quizzes although this requires a bit of work: you have to make each quiz question worth zero points and then manually put in the point value of each question when grading the quiz. Similarly, you can add extra-credit questions into a regular graded quiz by assigning zero points to that question.