Quizzes in Canvas: Overview
Canvas quizzes are good for low-stakes check-in quizzes, surveys, and big exams. Watch this video Links to an external site. to learn how, or visit How do I create a quiz with individual questions? Links to an external site.
Quiz Settings, Feedback, and Moderation
You can also shuffle answers, set time limits, and manage the number of attempts available to students. You can also moderate the quiz giving extra attempts or time:
- 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 can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time? Links to an external site.
- Moderating/Regrading Quizzes
Question Types
Canvas offers a lot of different question types. Watch the video above for an intro on how to choose them, or review the guides below:
- How do I create a quiz with individual questions?
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- 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 create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions? Links to an external site.
- How do I link course content to a quiz question? Links to an external site.
- How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz? Links to an external site.
- What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course? Links to an external site.
Question Groups
You can also use question banks to randomize quiz questions and import old quiz questions into new courses. For example, if you have a bank of 100 questions, you can tell a quiz to select only 40. Each student will then take a 40-question quiz of randomly selected questions from the pool of 100. Visit "Quizzes in Canvas: Question Banks" to learn how to do that.