Deliver Quizzes in MS Teams

Last updated on September 16, 2026

In a synchronous online course, there may be times when you want to assess your students’ understanding without administering a graded quiz through Canvas. Maybe you are looking for a quick poll, a casual pop quiz or wish to check general comprehension. One way to do this during your synchronous Teams meeting is to use the Teams Quiz feature. This is just like asking casual questions during a lecture where you can get a gauge on your student’s understanding and quickly provide feedback.

Teams Quizzes enable you to ask questions using different question types and see results as an integrated Microsoft Form. These quizzes can help you better direct your instruction and help your students reinforce what they are learning in class.

Please note: MS Teams does not integrate with Canvas Gradebook, so graded quizzes should be administered in Canvas. If you want to transfer Teams Quiz scores to Canvas you will need to manually create a new column in Gradebook and enter the scores.

Best Practices

When should I use this?

• MS Teams quizzes are best for informal knowledge assessments and surveys in a synchronous Teams meeting.
• They are useful for getting a general sense of student comprehension and instant results as students submit their responses.

When should I set this up? 

• Set up a MS teams quiz in advance or reuse an existing MS Teams Quiz, but you should hold off on assigning the quiz until you want students to take it because once it is assigned, it is automatically made available to students.

When should I not use this?

• Don’t use MS Teams Quizzes in place of a graded Canvas quiz when trying to formally assess your students. MS Teams quizzes are helpful for short and fast assessments and knowledge checks. For more in-depth assessments and for when you want to grade students’ work, use Canvas quizzes.

Let’s walk through it together

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Creating a Teams Quiz

1. Open the Microsoft Teams app on your computer.
   • If you don’t have the app installed, please view our Download and Install MS Teams tutorial.
2. Click Assignments on the left-hand navigation bar.
   • Your course needs to be set up as a Class Team in order to get the Assignments option. If you need help setting up a Course Team, please view our Set Up a “Course Team” tutorial.
3. Click Create  in the bottom left corner. 
4. Select New Quiz from the pop-up menu. 
5. Choose the Class that you want to create the quiz for. 
6. Click Next in the bottom right-hand corner of the window.
7. Click Add Quiz in the top left-hand corner of the window.
8. Click the X in the top right corner of the Copilot Prompt box to edit the quiz and create the questions yourself.
   • Alternatively, you can enter a description of the quiz or paste the questions into the Copilot prompt box to have Copilot create the quiz questions for you.
9. Enter a Title for your quiz.
10. Type a Description for the quiz underneath the title.
11. Click Quick start with to choose the type of question you want to ask.
12. Enter the Question and Answer Choices (depending on question type).
    • Select the correct answer choice for question types with more than one answer choice.
13. Click the Required toggle at the bottom right of the question to make the question required.
    • Depending on the question type, you may have more options you can toggle on or off.
14. Click Add new question to add another question.
15. Click Done in the upper right-hand corner when you are finished adding questions.
    1. You will be taken to a New Assignment window.

Assigning the Quiz

1. Enter Instructions for the quiz.
2. Select a Due Date for the quiz in the top right drop-down menu.
3. Select a Time the quiz is due in the drop-down menu below.
4. Select AI permissions from the Set student AI guidelines drop-down menu.
5. Select a Time Limit for the quiz in the Time Limit drop-down menu.
6. Click the arrow next to Assign in the bottom right corner.
7. Select Assign now to make the quiz available to students immediately, or select Schedule to assign in the future to select a day and time the quiz will be published.
   • The quiz will appear in the General panel as an assignment. 
   • Students should click “View assignment” and then they will be taken to a link to the quiz. When students click the link, the quiz will open.
   • When students are done working, they will click Submit and see a Thank you for your submission screen. From here students can click the “ View Results” button to see how they did. Score will only be shown for questions that are auto-graded.

Viewing Results

1. Click on the Assignments tab on the left-hand navigation menu in Teams.
2. Click Ready to grade from the tabs at the top of the page.
3. Click on the Quiz to view more information about submissions
   • You can click individual submissions to see a specific student’s answers and grade their work and give feedback
4. Click Summary Results in the upper right corner
   • This will open the form and allow you to view all submissions
5. Click Post Scores.
   • You can select to post the form  for the whole class or by student. 
   • Once scores are posted, students can view their scores using the same link they originally used to take the quiz.
6. You will need to enter scores into Canvas manually if you want to use the scores for a grade. If you need help creating an assignment in Canvas, please view our Add Manual Columns to the Gradebook Tutorial.

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