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Canvas New Quizzes: Getting Started

New Quizzes is Canvas’s next-generation assessment tool, offering a more powerful and flexible way to create engaging, customisable quizzes. With an expanded range of question types and enhanced features, it goes beyond the capabilities of Classic Quizzes to support more effective teaching and learning.

This collection of blog posts provides a step-by-step guide to using New Quizzes—from creating your first quiz and managing item banks, to migrating from Classic Quizzes and customising how students view results.

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New Quizzes Guides

Looking at New Quizzes: Interface & Question Types

How to create a Canvas New Quiz and look at Settings

Add Questions to Your Quiz and Organise with Item Banks

Migrating a Classic Quiz to New Quizzes in Canvas

Managing the Student Results View in New Quizzes

Videos Guides

New Canvas Quizzes- Creating a Quiz and adjusting quiz settings

Part 1: Creating a Quiz

New Canvas Quizzes - Creating an Item Bank

Part 2: Creating an Item Bank

Canvas New Quizzes - Adding Questions to your Quiz

Part 3: Adding Questions to your Quiz

Access all latest training videos, covering Canvas New Quizzes and more. Here you can request 1-2-1 support, and view other pedagogical guidance and blog posts.

New Quizzes Updates and Roadmap

You can view upcoming improvements, fixes and roadmap for Canvas New Quizzes in the New Quizzes Hub.