Canvas | New Quizzes Feature Comparison. The following chart is adapted from Canvas.
CANVAS WORKFLOWS
This table includes functionality workflows in Classic Quizzes v. New Quizzes. Instructors will be able to share question banks across multiple courses, accounts, and users.
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| MasteryPaths | ✓ | ✓ |
| Course Copy | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commons Import | ✓ | ✓ |
| Commons Export | ✓ | |
| QTI Import | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quiz Exports (content and files) | ✓ | |
| Duplicate Quiz from Quizzes page | ✓ | |
| Third-party Integrations (Proctor/Security) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blueprint Courses | ||
| Initial Sync | ✓ | ✓ |
| Subsequent Sync | ✓ | ✓ |
| Question/ Item Banks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Locking | ✓ | |
| Ability to configure in *.beta.instructure.com | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to configure in *.test.instructure.com | ✓ | |
| Loss of Connectivity message when relevant | ✓ | |
| Role permissions support | ||
| Designer role support | ✓ | |
| Observer role support | ✓ | |
| TA role support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to enable at sub-account/course levels | N/A | ✓ |
| Quiz content migration from Canvas | N/A | ✓ |
| Question Bank content migration from Canvas | ✓ | |
| Question/ Item Banks | ||
| Shared with course | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared with multiple courses | * | ✓ |
| Shared with account | ✓ | |
| Shared with user | ✓ |
% – Partial solution
* Currently not supported; workaround option
FEATURES
This table is the list of the compared features of Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes. Some awesome new features include tagging question banks, searching content within a question bank, and filtering content. Important to note, is the Classic Quizzes Question bank cannot be directly migrated over to New Quizzes, but there is a workaround!
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| Printing Quizzes | ||
| Print for Student to Take | % | ✓ |
| Print as Student Answered | ✓ | |
| Print as Sample Answer Key | % | ✓ |
| Bulk Download File Submissions | ✓ | |
| Import Content into Individual Quiz | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create Practice Quiz | ✓ | |
| Create Ungraded Quiz | ✓ | (can make it zero points) |
| Create Survey | ✓ | (can make a zero point quiz) |
| Preview quiz (student view) | ✓ | ✓ |
| To-do List for Instructor | ✓ | |
| To-do List for Student | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calendar for Student | ✓ | ✓ |
| API access to quizzes | ✓ | ✓ |
| LockDown browser support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customize Question Feedback | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave/Resume Quiz | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks | ||
| Bookmark Banks | ✓ | |
| Copy/Move Banked Questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delete Banks | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Only Access | ✓ | |
| Randomize Bank Questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share Item Banks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Import Item Bank Content | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tag Banked Items with Metadata | x | ✓ |
| Search Content within an Item Bank | x | ✓ |
| Search for an Item Bank | x | ✓ |
| Filter/ Sort Item Bank | x | ✓ |
| Regrade Questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reorder Questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| New Rich Content Editor | ||
| Record audio and video | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content Selector Sidebar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accessibility Checker | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apps and LTI tools | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML Editor | ✓ | ✓ |
| Insert media iframe | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right-to-left/left-to-right formatting buttons | ✓ | ✓ |
% – Partial solution
* Currently not supported; workaround option
ITEM & QUESTION TYPES
This table is arguably the most exciting! New Quizzes has MANY more question types than Classic Canvas Quizzes (Categorization, Essay, Hot Spot, Ordering, and Stimulus are new). Please explore the links below in the table to see the new question types. Warning, stimulus is less of a question and more of a prompt or hint with attached questions.
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| Categorization | x | ✓ |
| Essay | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fill in the Blank | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fill in Multiple Blanks | ✓ | Use Fill in the Blank question* |
| File Upload | ✓ | ✓ |
| Formula | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple Answer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple Choice | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple Dropdown | ✓ | Use Fill in the Blank question* |
| Matching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Numeric | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stimulus/Passage | x | ✓ |
| Text (No Question) | ✓ | Text can be included as stimulus content, but the stimulus type requires adding questions related to the content* |
| True/False | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ordering | x | ✓ |
| Hot Spot | x | ✓ |
* Currently not supported; workaround option
SETTINGS
The following table are the new settings in new quizzes. There is a new “required waiting period” that does not open the second quiz attempt up until a certain period of time has passed. There are also new shuffling question and answer features!
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| Allow Multiple Attempts (All Students) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Allow Multiple Attempts (Individual Student) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Require Waiting Period Between Attempts | x | ✓ |
| Display One Question at Time | ✓ | ✓ |
| Require Access Code | ✓ | ✓ |
| Set Time Limit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shuffle Questions Globally | x | ✓ |
| Shuffle Answers Globally | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hide Student Responses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hide Student Responses Available Window | ✓ | |
| Filter IP Addresses | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filter IP Addresses by Named Location | ✓ | |
| Assign to Individual Student | ✓ | ✓* |
| Assign to Section | ✓ | ✓* |
| Set Availability Dates | ✓ | ✓* |
| Shuffle Answers per Question | x | ✓ |
✓* Customize by editing the assignment in Canvas
GRADING AND MODERATING
The following table describes grading and moderation differences in classic v. new quizzes. Moderation is often how students are given their DSP accommodations. The new “for the whole course” feature will make adding extra time a one-time setting change, compared to an every assessment setting change!
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the whole course) | x | ✓ |
| Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the assessment) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add Extra Attempt (Individual Student, for the assessment) | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Moderation Page | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manually Submit Attempts | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Quiz Log | ✓ | ✓ |
| View Student Results | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic grading of questions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add Fudge Points | ✓ | ✓ |
| Partial Points/Credit | ||
| Multiple Choice | ✓ | |
| Multiple Answer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fill in the Blank | ✓ | ✓ |
| Matching | ✓ | |
| Ordering | x | |
| Categorization | x | |
| Grade One Question at a Time (SpeedGrader) | ✓ | |
| Learning Mastery Gradebook | ✓ | ✓ |
REPORTS
The following table contains information on student data from Canvas Quizzes. There is a new quintile report and new data visualizations that can be helpful in guiding instructor’s teaching.
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | |
| Item Analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Summary Statistics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quintile Performance | x | ✓ |
| Student Analysis | ✓ | |
| CSV Download | ✓ |
* Reports may take up to 24 hours to generate
Here are some frequently asked questions about New Quizzes that Canvas has already answered!