Canvas Quizzes: New vs. Classic FAQ
UHD will be tranisitioning from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. Training, information, and support links are coming soon. Presented below are details to aid us in this conversion.
Comparison
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Item Banks are exclusive to New Quizzes. They are associated with the user, allowing them to be used across multiple courses where the user is an instructor. Item Banks offer the ability to be shared with colleagues through the share feature, with owners able to control whether others can view or edit the bank. Changes made to a question in an Item Bank will automatically update across any quizzes that use that question. Note: When updating an Item Bank, instructors can make changes without affecting existing quizzes using the Item Bank by duplicating the Item Bank. |
Question Banks are exclusive to Classic Quizzes. They are specific to a course, so they can’t be easily shared with instructors from other courses. When questions are added to a quiz via a Question Bank, the question is copied into the quiz, meaning that any changes made to the question within the quiz will not be updated in the Question Bank and any changes made to the questions in the Question Bank will not be updated in the quiz. |
| Copying Quizzes: With new quizzes, faculty can duplicate quizzes from the quizzes page. | Copying Quizzes: With classic quizzes, faculty cannot duplicate quizzes from the quizzes page. |
| Printing Quizzes and Answer Keys: With new quizzes faculty have the option to print the quiz to use in face to face courses. In additon, the option to print answer keys is also available. | Printing Quizzes and Answer Keys: Classic quizzes does not offer this feature. |
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Question Types: New quizzes offer the following question types in Canvas:
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Question Types: The listed question types in New Quizzes are not avilable in Classic Quizzes. |
FAQ
New Quizzes provides a modern, robust assessment experience with enhanced performance and scalability, designed to meet both current and future classroom assessment needs. New Quizzes offers an improved user experience along with expanded functionality, including advanced accommodation settings, a wider variety of question types, enhanced collaboration tools, and streamlined migration options.
Classic Quizzes will sunset beginning Winter Term this December 2025.
Yes. New Quizzes migration supports all question types. Refer to this article for instructions on migrating a single quiz, and this article for migrating all quizzes and Item Banks within a course. We recommend instructors review migrated quizzes prior to publishing and/or assigning them to students.
Yes, New Quizzes provides enhanced accommodation options and settings to better support diverse learner needs.
- This article explains how to set individual quiz accommodations for a student.
- This article explains how to set course-wide accommodations for a student.
You can preview and test quiz questions and settings from a student’s perspective by using Quiz Preview. This article explains how to open Quiz Preview, submit a quiz, and view student results as a student.
Once an item has been added to an item bank, it can be easily copied or moved between item banks. Individual questions in New Quizzes can also be duplicated, see this article in the Instructor Guide.
Yes, New Quizzes work seamless with Respondus LockDown Browser.
Timeline of Transistion to New Quizzes
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| August 2025 | First notification sent to faculty informing them that Classic Quizzes will be turned off for the Winter/Spring 2026 semseter via newsletter. |
| September 2025 | Second notification sent to faculty informing them that Classic Quizzes will be turned off for the Winter/Spring 2026 semseter via newsletter. |
| October 2025 | Last notification to faculty informing them that Classic Quizzes will be turned off on October 15, 2025. |
| December 2025 |
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Contact Information
Faculty can contact TTLC Support at ttlchelp@uhd.edu or via phone at 713-221-2786. The TTLC Support team is prepared to meet, train, and assist faculty during this time of quiz conversion. We are currently offering New Quizzes Training which can be found on our Technology Training Calendar.