All About New Quizzes
Last Modified on 04/28/2020 12:52 pm EDT
Canvas's New Quizzes has been in use in select courses at Wharton since Spring 2019, and it will eventually replace Classic Quizzes. New Quizzes offers many benefits for remote exams, including an easy-to-use quiz building environment.
Creating a Quiz
To create a new quiz...
- From the left navigation of your Canvas course, choose Quizzes then click the +Quiz button. You can create a quiz using Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes.
Choose New Quizzes unless you need to bulk download file-upload submissions (a function available only in Classic Quizzes). - Click Submit.
- Give the quiz a name, point value, due date, and any availability dates. You can edit these later if necessary.
- Click Save to launch New Quizzes.
TIP: Use availability dates to allow specific students to take the quiz at alternate times.
Adding Instructions and Questions
- Open the Build tab to start adding the quiz instructions and questions.
- Use the "+" icon to add a new question.
You will see a list of question types from which you can choose. (Question types are explained in the next section.)
Question Types
Your quiz can include a mix of automatically and manually graded questions.
Automatically Graded Questions
Manually Graded Questions
TIP: Use a file upload question to allow students to upload a file, to show their calculations or other work. This works well if the quiz involves a file students must download/print, complete and scan, and submit.
Quiz Settings
Open the Settings tab to configure quiz options:
- Shuffle the order of all questions
- Shuffle answers to individual questions
- Show only one question at time
- Require an access code
- Set a time limit
- Allow calculator
- Allow multiple attempts to take the quiz
- Restrict student result view (hide student responses, correct answers, point value, or feedback)
*Important: To prevent student's from seeing their scores or submissions right after they submit the quiz, check the option to "Restrict student result view" and leave all other boxes unchecked. To release scores, open the quiz settings and un-check "Restrict student result view."
Publish the Quiz
Before you publish the quiz, be sure to:
Viewing and Grading Online Quizzes
- Use Moderate to view student submissions, add more time or attempts for individual students, and to reopen a completed quiz.
- Add a score for any manually graded questions in SpeedGrader. (Final quiz scores cannot be directly edited in the Gradebook.)
Regrading Questions
You can regrade any automatically graded question, but this should be done only after all students have finished taking the quiz.
Releasing Scores
When you are ready for students to see their submissions and the correct answers, you should...
- Open the quiz, and in the Settings tab, un-check Restrict student result view.
- Open the Gradebook, and to the right of the column with the quiz name, click the options menu to post grades.
Questions?
Email: courseware@wharton.upenn.edu
Choose New Quizzes unless you need to bulk download file-upload submissions (a function available only in Classic Quizzes). 
You will see a list of question types from which you can choose. (Question types are explained in the next section.)
