We know that a lot of hard work goes into creating and delivering quizzes. Whether you have one quiz, or several with question banks, here are a few tips to save you time when creating your quiz in canvas.
Use Question Banks
It is much easier to re-purpose questions if they exist in a question bank. If you intend to use questions in other assessments e.g. referral assignments, formative tests etc, questions should be placed into a bank. Once you have created your quiz, question banks can either pulled directly into your quiz or placed into a question group. Question groups allow you to pull questions from several banks randomly allowing you to specify how many questions from each bank. For more information on how to create a question bank and add this to your quiz, please see the following guides:
Copying Quizzes
As mentioned above, it is much easier to re-purpose questions if they have been added to a question bank. If however you have a quiz that already contains a direct set of questions, you can export and import a QTI zip file to duplicate your quiz.
QTI exports do not include question banks. If you would like to duplicate a quiz that contains a question bank, you must export the course, and import selecting both the quiz and question banks options.
Important: Please note importing a quiz with a question bank more than once to the same cause will cause the quiz to not work.
Moving/Copying Questions between Banks
Questions can be moved or copied from one bank to another. For more information on how to copy or move questions, the following Canvas article may be of use:
How do I move/copy a question from one question bank to another?
Allowing Students Additional Attempts
There might be an occasion when you need to allow your student another attempt at a quiz. The following Canvas article will show you the different ways in which an additional attempt can be provided to an individual or the entire cohort:
Once I publish a Quiz, how do I give my students extra attempts?