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Turn a Classic Quiz into a Question Bank

Question Banks are an excellent tool to use when creating Classic Quizzes. You can add questions to a bank, edit them if you like, and then add them to any Classic Quiz. You can use Question Banks to reuse questions and set up randomized pools of questions, for example. You may want to add several […]

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Why can’t I see the questions from Classic Quiz question groups when I migrate to New Quizzes?

New Quizzes do not use Question Banks, instead they use Item Banks. Additionally, currently do not offer the option of “question group” type questions. When you migrate a Classic Quiz with question groups to a New Quiz, the New Quiz is unable to pull from the Question Bank, so the questions do not migrate over. […]

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New Quizzes

Share an Item Bank in New Quizzes

Item Banks are collections of questions for use in New Quizzes. You may want to share an Item Bank with another instructor to use in their course, perhaps to collaborate on creating new questions or to provide them with material for their own New Quizzes. This tutorial will show you how to share access to […]

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New Quizzes

Convert Question Banks to Item Banks

Classic-style quizzes in Canvas can pull questions from Question Banks. However, New-style Quizzes use Item Banks instead. While these two different types of banks appear very similar, Canvas treats them as separate systems; a New-style Quiz cannot pull questions from a Question Bank. If you have migrated a Classic Quiz that pulls from a question […]

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Quizzes/Tests

Create and Use a Question Bank for Classic Quizzes

Question banks are used to store and organize quiz questions. These questions can then be used across different classic quizzes and courses. Directions Create a Question Bank Add Questions to a Question Bank Add Questions from a Question Bank to a Quiz