The Quizzes feature in Canvas is where you can create assessments to measure student mastery of course content. You can use a quiz to gather formative data, as an exit ticket, or as a formal assessment tool. You can learn more about quizzes on the page below or by accessing the Canvas Guides through the Instructure Community.
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Creating a Quiz
Creating a Quiz
Quizzes are a great way to assess student learning. We recommend using Canvas New Quizzes to create quizzes. It provides additional question types and is updated with new features regularly.
How to Create a Canvas Quiz - BISD One Pager
Adding Questions to a Quiz
Adding Questions to a Quiz
After you’ve created a quiz, it’s time to add questions to it. There are over a dozen types of questions you can use when building a new quiz including Multiple Choice, Essays, Fill in the Blank, Matching, and True/False.
Check out our guides to all of the question types:
Multiple Choice - BISD One Pager
Fill-In-The-Blank - BISD One-Pager
Drag and Drop - BISD One-Pager
Question Stimulus - BISD One-Pager
Managing Quiz Settings
Managing Quiz Settings
Before you give a quiz to students, you can modify some settings from within the build mode to randomize the question order, require students to enter a password to start the quiz, add a time limit, manage the number of times a student may attempt a quiz.
Moderating, Grading, and Adding Feedback to Quizzes
Moderating, Grading, and Adding Feedback to Quizzes
As students take a quiz, you can monitor their progress, view their scores, and create reports to evaluate where the class may be struggling. You can also reset a quiz if students need an additional attempt.
Item Banks in Canvas Quizzes
Item Banks in Canvas Quizzes
Item Banks allow teachers to build a collection of questions that can be reused across multiple quizzes. Teachers can also use an item bank to randomly select a subset of questions so that each student receives a different version of a quiz.
Creating an Item Bank - BISD One-Pager
Adding Existing Questions to an Item Benk - BISD One-Pager
Adding Questions from an Item Bank to a Quiz - BISD One-Pager
Sharing an Item Bank with Another Teacher or Course - BISD One-Pager
Interactive Assessments Simplified: Your Canvas New Quizzes Guide
Interactive Assessments Simplified: Your Canvas New Quizzes Guide
Canvas New Quizzes makes creating engaging, STAAR 2.0-aligned assessments easy and effective. With interactive question types like categorization, drag-and-drop, and hot spots, you can better prepare students while gathering valuable insights. Take your assessments to the next level with the Canvas New Quizzes One Stop Shop below. This guide provides teachers with everything they need to know when using New Quizzes from how to build question types, to providing student accommodations on New Quizzes, insightful New Quiz reports, and more!
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