Create a quiz - Canvas Tutorial

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at how to create a quiz inside of Canvas. But first, I need to bring up an important point. For this course, I'm using a Free-for-Teachers account which only has access to the Classic Quizzes. If you have Canvas through your school or organization, you'll likely have access to the New Quiz type. At the time of this recording, you still have the ability to use Classic Quizzes but the eventual goal is to phase them out and get everyone using the New Quizzes. To learn more about New Quizzes, you can navigate to the Help center. I'll get a video in here on New Quizzes as soon as I can. But for right now, this is what I'd do. On the left in the global navigation bar, I would click Help and go to Search the Canvas Guides. From here, I'll select Canvas and over here on the far right is the instructor guide. Now this is filled with a ton of information. Here are the different categories and one of them is the New Quizzes. I'll click that. And here, you can see that there is a plethora of information about the New Quizzes. So I suggest checking that out. For now, let's take a look at how to create a Classic Quiz. So I'm going to navigate back over to my course. And from the Course navigation bar, I'm going to select Quizzes. Here, it will show my course quizzes and I don't have any yet. In the upper right, I can click on + Quiz to create a quiz. I'll do that and it brings up this page. Now, again, this is a Classic Quiz. Up here, we have details and questions. In this video, we'll take a look at the details. So I first need to name it, and this is going to be Genetics Quiz 1. Down below, you can leave quiz instructions. So in other places, this is where we created the actual content. In this case, this is just the quiz instructions. I'll quickly type some in here. And here, I just let them know that they need to answer all the questions and they'll have 10 minutes to complete the quiz. Next, I'll scroll down. And here's where we need to start making some decisions. First of all, what's the quiz type? Is this a graded quiz? Is it a practice quiz? Is it a graded survey where they get credit if they participate? Or an unrated survey which is totally anonymous? I'm going to keep mine as a graded quiz. Next, we can decide on the assignment groups and we set these up earlier and one of mine was assessments. I want this to go into the Assessments category. And again, if you haven't yet created assignment groups, this dropdown will be empty. Here, we can decide if we want to shuffle answers. We can set a time limit and I did tell them that they would have a time limit. So I'll click in here, and then enter in 10. You can decide if you want to allow multiple attempts. And if you do and click this, you'll have to decide if you want to keep the highest score, the most recent or the average. In this case, I'm going to turn that off. And below this, it says, Let Students See Their Quiz Responses. I like doing this and letting students get feedback right away as to how they did and what the correct answers are. Now, you may not feel comfortable doing that and it's totally up to you. If you do want students to see the correct answers, you have the ability to withhold them or set the time where they can see them within parameters. So in other words, you could put show correct answers at and I could go in here and set a day and time, and then hide the correct answers at and put something else. You might want to do this if you're afraid of students taking the quiz and then telling students from a different section what the answers are. You could set it so they can see them after the class is done or something like that. Now down here, you can decide if you want to show one question at a time. You can require an access code. If I click on this, that is a password that the students would then need to enter the quiz or you can even filter it by IP address and only let certain IP addresses take it. Next, who you're going to assign it to, you could put everyone. In this case, everyone is my biology class but I could select my biology class. I could even send it to individual students or a group of students. Now, also, you'll have to put in here when that quiz is due. I'm going to go ahead and put here, and then when it will be available from, but I'll share it out with students. When I'm done, I'm going to go to the bottom and click on Save. Whoops and I made a mistake here where I did click this but didn't put a password in. I actually don't want students to have a password, so I'm just going to turn that off. I'll go down here. It is now saving and I've saved it. Now it says the quiz is unpublished but remember that we didn't even put questions in yet, so that's okay. In the next video, we'll take a look at how to add questions.