Quizzes Overview
For the purposes of our website, the term "quizzes" refers to both quizzes and exams, since the development and administration of both are similar. There are currently four options for administering quizzes through currently available tools in our Canvas instance. Here are the options and the main reason to select one over the others.
The advantages of conducting assessments online include the following:
- You can set up automatic grading and feedback.
- You can accept answers in a form format.
- You can apply restrictions for proctoring and release of feedback.
Canvas New Quizzes is the best option if you want students to have a waiting period between attempts or need points assigned as extra credit on designated questions. It also offers a larger variety of question formats than Canvas Classic Quizzes, including categorization, ordering, and hot spot questions.
It does not currently support virtual proctoring.
Canvas Classic Quizzes is the best option if your quiz/exam:
- requires virtual proctoring,
- includes student audio and video recordings,
- is in a Blueprint course,
- will be created by a user with a "Designer" role, or
- will be used as a survey.
It supports the use of outcome reporting based on question banks (one outcome per bank).
Atomic Assessment is a third-party tool that allows for a larger variety of question types than Canvas quiz formats and includes great options for math and chemistry notation in questions and answers and offers the ability to allow students to check answers as they work through the quiz. It supports quiz banks and questions based on a table of possible variables. Virtual proctoring is possible.
When using some of the manually graded question types, the load time of the SpeedGrader can be long. If you have a large class, you may want to use other assessment options.
Video quizzes are best used for multiple choice questions that may be interspersed one question at a time throughout a recorded lecture or other video. They are best for assigning participation points as students watch a video.
See a full list of feature comparisons between Canvas Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes .