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Log into Canvas and Select Your Course
Log into Canvas using your SSO (Single Sign On Username and Password). Then click on the course banner to enter the course in which you wish to create your quiz.
Go to Your Quizzes Page
After logging into Canvas and selecting one of your courses, you will be on your course's homepage. At the left side of your screen is your Navigation Panel. Click on the Quizzes link to go to the page where you can create new quizzes, as well as view the collection of quizzes you’ve already made or imported.
Create a Quiz
Here we see under the Course Quizzes heading there are no quizzes listed. We are about to create our first quiz. Click the + Quiz button at the top-right corner of the page. This will begin the process for building a new quiz.
Choose New Quizzes Format
After clicking the +Quiz button an on screen dialogue box appears prompting you to choose a Quiz Engine. We will select New Quizzes because Canvas will eventually sunset the Classic Quizzes option and New Quizzes provides more options in question formats and also has more functionality for student moderation and acommodations. After selecting the New Quizzes option, click on the Submit button at the bottom right corner.
Enter the Settings for Your New Quiz
Give Your Quiz a Title. My advice is to be as descriptive as possible. This will help keep your course organized for years to come.
Examples:
MP1 Exit Ticket – Congruent Triangle
MP1 Do Now – Classifying Triangles
MP1 Summative – Everything Triangles
Assignment Groups are another way to organize your content. You can either place all your quizzes under Assignments or you can create other categories for your assessments.
Examples:
Formative
Summative
Do Now
Exit Ticket
Leave the Submission Type set to External Tool.
Leave Assign set to Everyone.
You may set Due Dates and Availability Dates as needed.
I use the Add button at the bottom of the page to add individual students who missed the assessment on its original date, and set a customized access date and due date for those students.
Finally, press the BUILD button to start adding questions.
Edit the Title and Add Instructions
Here you have the option to modify the name of your quiz or add instructions to the quiz. Simply click on the pencil icon next to each field and you can update. When you are finished with your edits, click done.
When you are ready to start adding questions to your quiz, click the Plus add the bottom center of your screen.
Question Types
Because this is a tutorial for creating your first quiz lets limit the question types to :
Multiple Choice
Multiple Answer
Fill In The Blank
Other question formats will be addressed on a different page in this site. For now let's start building our quiz.
Best Practices
Before creating an online quiz in any application it is always good practice to have a completed typed up copy of the quiz, with the answer key, and the supporting work that goes with the answer key. This will permit you to enter the questions and answers in a relatively quick way, the supported work will give you ways to ask questions that allow students to demonstrate their understanding of processes, and provide you with opportunities to eventually branch out to other questioning styles, making for more authentic assessments in a digital medium.
Multiple Choice Questions
Give your questions very descriptive titles. Students do not see the title. It is to your benefit, especially once you start creating question banks. The descriptive titles will make it easy for your to pull questions from multiple sources for a cumulative assignment.
Type your question in the textbox that reads "Add Question Stem".
Fill in each answer choice. Make sure to MARK THE CORRECT CHOICE by clicking the circle next to the correct answer. If you need to add more answer choices simple click the + Answer after the last answer choice. If you need to delete an answer choice, then click the garbage can in line with the answer choice you wish to delete.
At the bottom set the point value for this question. If you end up creating more total points than what you specified for the assignment value Canvas will calculate the assignment grade using a weighted scale, otherwise you can go back to the adjust the assignment value in the settings.
Question Options
There are three options available, which are set on a question by question basis.
Show on-screen calculator gives a choice between a basic or scientific calculator
Vary points by answer will make boxes appear next to each answer choice where you can award points based on partially correct and fully correct answers.
Shuffle Choices will make little locks appear next to each choice. Click on the lock to keep the position of an aswer choice. For example, I like to keep "None of the Above" as the last answer choice in a question so I lock it in the last position. (See image below).
Multiple Answers Questions
Set the question title, as stated previously, make the title very descriptive, this is for your benefit as a test author and administrator and will make it easy to reuse questions in cumulative assignments later in the school year.
Type your question in the text box that reads "Add Question Stem".
Fill in your answer choices, be sure to mark all the correct choices that are required for full credit. At the bottom of the page set the point value for this question.
The options for Multiple Answer Questions are the same as for Multiple Choice Questions, except you have an additional option for grading. You may select to have Canvas award partial credit.
Fill In The Blank Questions
I suggest the Open Entry option because I want the student to type the answer without being given any hints to what the answer might be from a dropdown list or word bank.
I recommend setting the Text Match option to Exact Match because the other options such as "contains" and "close enough" have awarded full credit for some pretty bad answers at times. These are options you will have to try and evaluate on your own to see if they meet your needs.
Continue the practice of setting question titles descriptively.
To create a blank to fill into your question use the tick mark located on the tilde key at the top left of your keyboard.
Type a statement and surround the answer with back ticks (found on the tilde key) to indicate where a student will fill in the answer. (e.g., "Roses are `red`, violets are `blue`")
This statement will have two blanks for the student to fill in . First `red` then `blue`.
Fill Int The Blank – Regular Expressions
Advanced Topic to Improve Grading
Fill in the blank questions have a special special Text Match option called Regular Expressions. It is a way that you can instruct a fill in the blank answer to be marked correctly based on coded formatting you enter into Canvas. You can get a brief introduction to this from my YouTube tutorial embedded here.
Assessment Settings
After entering all of your questions into the quiz, scroll to the top of the page and click the Settings menu.
Here you can select options for time limits, calculators, shuffling questions, shuffling answers, and mode of presentation. I recommend setting the assessment to one question at a time so that students are able to focus on the question at hand.
Preview Your Quiz
After updating your assessment settings, at the top of the page, click BUILD to go back to the the quiz editor, but this time click Preview at the top right corner of the assessment to view your assessment and take the test to see what your students will experience.
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