Create Quiz Questions

Once you have entered the basic settings for your quiz, you can create individual quiz questions, add questions from a question bank, create questions with a question group, and create questions with a question bank in a question group.

  • Question banks are question repositories which allow you to store and organize questions into banks as you see fit, by quiz or test type, question type, unit within the course, or another means of distinction. A question bank exists outside of the quiz in which it may have been created and can be shared across multiple courses.
  • Question groups allow you to organize a large number of questions into groups in the quiz with the option to have Canvas randomly select the desired number of questions to display on the quiz with a set point value for all questions in the group. A question group does not exist outside of the quiz in which it was created.

 

1. Click the Questions tab to create the quiz questions and points.

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  1. The Question Tab allows you to:
  2. Create a New Question 
  3. Create a New Question Group 
  4. Find Questions within existing Question Groups 
  5. You can also see the points total for your questions 
  6. Click the Save button to save work on your quiz. 

2. Click the New Question button.

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3. Name your question, choose the question type, enter question details, and enter the answers.

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  1. Quiz questions are not automatically numbered for instructors. To add a custom name to your quiz question, enter the name in the question text field. Custom names can help you identify quiz questions more easily. Regardless of the question name, students always see quiz questions in numerical order (i.e. Question 1, Question 2). 
  2. In the question type drop-down menu, you can create the following types of quiz questions:
    • Multiple Choice 
    • True/False 
    • Fill-in-the-Blank 
    • Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks 
    • Multiple Answers 
    • Multiple Drop-down (can be used for Likert scale) 
    • Matching 
    • Numerical Answer 
    • Formula (simple formula and single variable) 
    • Canvas Instructor Guide 
    • Page 
    • Essay 
    • File Upload 

You can link course content to create Quiz questions, such as linking a diagram image.