Canvas: New Quizzes Settings

New Quizzes Settings

New Quizzes is an alternate quiz engine to Classic Quizzes, the following are the options available to you for how the assessment is delivered to students. There are the basic settings common to most assessments, and then there are New Quizzes settings found through the Build page of New Quizzes.

At this time, the CTL recommends that you select Classic Quizzes. Although New Quizzes offers some new features, it also lacks features of Classic Quizzes upon which many instructors depend. Please see Canvas: New Quizzes vs. Classic Quizzes to learn more.

You can edit the basic quiz settings as follows:

  1. In your course menu, select Quizzes.
  2. On the Quizzes page, at the top right, click +Quiz.
  3. In the quiz engine pop-up that appears, select New Quizzes, and then click Submit.
  1. The assignment settings page appears on which you can set:
    1. The name for your New Quizzes quiz.
    2. The total points that the quiz will be worth in the gradebook.
    3. The assignment group.
    4. How to display the grade (percentage, complete/incomplete, points, letter grade, or GPA)
    5. Select whether to exclude this assessment from the final grade calculations.
    6. The allowed attempts - this can also be set from within the New Quizzes quiz.
    7. Select who is required to complete the quiz.
    8. Set a Due date (after which a submission will be marked as late).
    9. Select an Available from date (before which the quiz will be locked and students will not be able to access it).
    10. Select an Available until date (after which the quiz will be locked and students will not be able to access it).
    11. Add additional Assign to boxes.

  2. When finished with these basic settings, click Save.
    Note: To return to edit these settings, go to the Quizzes page in your course and click the three dots next to the quiz name, then click Edit.
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Once you click Save, the basic quiz settings are saved and the New Quizzes Build page opens where you can edit New Quizzes settings as follows:

  1. In the New Quizzes Build page that opens, click on the Settings tab.
    Settings

  1. On the New Quizzes Settings page you have several options:
    1. Shuffle questions: randomizes the order that the quiz questions are displayed to students.
      If this is not selected, the questions will be displayed in the order that you list them on the Build page.
    2. Shuffle answers: randomizes the displayed order of the possible answers for multiple choice, multiple answer and matching quiz questions.
      If this is not selected, the answers will display in the order that you have set on the Build page.
    3. One question at a time: each question will display on its own page.
      By default, all questions are shown on one page and students can only  advance to the next question.
      To allow students to go to previous questions, select the Allow Backtracking checkbox.
    4. Require a student access code: students must enter a passcode to start the quiz.
      This is option is intended for in-person exams. We do not recommend this for online remote exams.
    5. Time limit: enable this setting to limit the amount of time a student can write the quiz for. Enter the time limit using the Hours and Minutes fields. 
    6. Filter IP addresses: this setting is not recommended; it is intended for an in-person examination.
    7. Allow calculator: enables an on-screen calculator for the duration of the quiz. You can select either a Basic or Scientific calculator.
    8. Allow multiple attempts: by default, students have just one attempt to complete the assessment.
      If you enable multiple attempts, you have the following options:
      1. Score to keep: highest, average or latest
      2. Allowed attempts: limited or unlimited.
      3. If you select limited attempts, enter the number of attempts.
      4. Waiting period: select this option and set a duration to require students to wait before beginning a new attempt.
    9. Restrict student result view: select this to hide quiz results information from students. When enabled, it lists 3 results that are hidden unless you click the checkboxes:
      1. Show points awarded
      2. Show points possible
      3. Show items and questions: this option displays all assessment items and questions on the results page. You can also display the student response, indicate whether the response was correct/ incorrect, show the correct answer, and display the item feedback
      Note: even when you select Restrict student result view, students can see their quiz score in Grades unless you have enabled a Manual grade posting policy.
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  1. Your settings are automatically saved. You can
    1. Click the Build tab to return to editing quiz questions, or
    2. At top right, click Return to exit the New Quizzes assessment.

For more information about New Quizzes, please see:

UBC Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Canvas Directory

Updated December 2020