Working with Quizzes

The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. You can also use quizzes to conduct and moderate exams and assessments, Links to an external site. both graded and ungraded. The steps to create quiz content are the same for each quiz type.

Create Graded Quiz

Create Graded Quiz

A graded quiz is the most common quiz, and Canvas automatically creates a column in the grade book for any graded quizzes you build. After a student takes a graded quiz, certain question types will be automatically graded.

Create Practice Quiz

Create Practice Quiz

A practice quiz can be used as a learning tool to help students see how well they understand the course material. Students do not receive a grade for practice quizzes, even though the quiz results display the number of points earned in the quiz. Practice quizzes do not appear in the Syllabus or the Gradebook.

Create Graded Survey

Create Graded Survey

A graded survey allows the instructor to give students points for completing the survey, but it does not allow the survey to be graded for right or wrong answers. Graded surveys have the option to be anonymous.

Create Ungraded Survey

Create Ungraded Survey

An ungraded survey allows you to get opinions or other information from your students, but students do not receive a grade for their responses. With ungraded surveys, you can make responses anonymous. Ungraded surveys do not appear in the Syllabus or the Gradebook.

Other quiz settings:

  1. What options can I set in a quiz? Links to an external site.
  2. Delayed Feedback Options Links to an external site.
  3. How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date? Links to an external site.
  4. How do I import quizzes from QTI packages? Links to an external site.
  5. How do I create a quiz with individual questions? Links to an external site.
  6. How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions? Links to an external site.
  7. How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank? Links to an external site.
  8. How do I create a Multiple Choice quiz question? Links to an external site.
  9. How do I create a True/False quiz question? Links to an external site.
  10. How do I create a Fill-in-the-Blank quiz question? Links to an external site.
  11. How do I create a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks quiz question? Links to an external site.
  12. How do I create a Multiple Answers quiz question? Links to an external site.
  13. How do I create a Multiple Dropdown quiz question? Links to an external site.
  14. How do I create Likert scale quiz questions? Links to an external site.
  15. How do I create a Matching quiz question? Links to an external site.
  16. How do I create a Numerical Answer quiz question? Links to an external site.
  17. How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable? Links to an external site.
  18. How do I create a Simple Formula quiz question? Links to an external site.
  19. How do I create an Essay quiz question? Links to an external site.
  20. How do I create a File Upload quiz question? Links to an external site.
  21. How do I create a Text (no question) quiz question? Links to an external site.
  22. How do I link course content to a quiz question? Links to an external site.
  23. How do I create a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
  24. How do I bookmark a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
  25. How do I unbookmark a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
  26. How do I delete a question bank in a course? Links to an external site.
  27. How do I move multiple questions from one question bank to another? Links to an external site.
  28. How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another? Links to an external site.
  29. How do I reorder questions or question groups in a quiz? Links to an external site.
  30. How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another? Links to an external site.
  31. How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time? Links to an external site.
  32. How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date? Links to an external site.
  33. How do I assign a quiz to an individual student? Links to an external site.
  34. How do I assign a quiz to a course section? Links to an external site.
  35. How do I delete a quiz? Links to an external site.
  36. How do I export quiz content from my course? Links to an external site.
  37. Once I publish a quiz, how do I make additional changes? Links to an external site.
  38. Once I publish a quiz, how do I use the Moderate Quiz page? Links to an external site.
  39. Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available? Links to an external site.
  40. Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts? Links to an external site.
  41. Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time? Links to an external site.
  42. How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions? Links to an external site.
  43. How do I view student results in a quiz? Links to an external site.
  44. How do I view a quiz log for a student? Links to an external site.
  45. How do I use quiz fudge points in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site.
  46. How do I grade one quiz question at a time in SpeedGrader? Links to an external site.
  47. What options can I use to regrade a quiz in a course? Links to an external site.
  48. How do I regrade a Multiple Choice quiz question? Links to an external site.
  49. How do I regrade a True/False quiz question? Links to an external site.
  50. How do I regrade a Multiple Answers quiz question? Links to an external site.
  51. How do I create a survey in my course? Links to an external site.
  52. How do I view survey results in a course? Links to an external site.
  53. How do I view practice quiz results in a course? Links to an external site.