Migrate Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes in Canvas

• Overview
• Functional gaps and known migration issues
• Migrate quizzes one at a time
• Migrate quizzes in bulk
• Migrate a QTI export file
• Migrate question groups and question banks to item banks
• Migration checklist
• Get help

Overview

There are several options for migrating quizzes from the Classic (original) Quizzes tool to New Quizzes. Review each method below to determine which is best for your specific situation. Regardless of which method you use, carefully review all of your migrated quizzes (including accessing them in Student View) before making them available to students. You may need to make changes before publishing them in your course. See the Migration checklist for guidance on reviewing and remediating your migrated quizzes.

Functional gaps and known migration issues

Before transitioning to New Quizzes, review the following resources to understand the limitations, gaps, and known issues. Consider how these issues will impact your quizzes before taking any action.

• New Quizzes: Missing Features and Known Issues
• Canvas Quiz Migration: Missing Features and Known Issues
• New Quizzes Migration - Question Banks to Item Banks

Migrate quizzes one at a time

To migrate quizzes one at a time, follow the instructions for migrating a quiz to New Quizzes. This method places the migrated quiz in the same course as the original classic quiz and is most useful when you want to convert a quiz in a current course. When the process is complete, you will see two quizzes with the same name in the Quizzes and Assignments tool, the original quiz with the outlined rocket icon () and new quiz with solid rocket icon ().

Important:

You will only see the option to migrate an individual quiz in courses with New Quizzes enabled. If you do not see the Migrate option in the quiz "More Options" () menu, go to Settings > Feature Options and set the "New Quizzes" option to Enabled.

Migrate quizzes in bulk

You can migrate quizzes in bulk when importing a course. Follow the instructions for copying content from another Canvas course using the Course import tool, paying close attention to the section Bulk Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes. If the Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes box is checked on the "Settings > Import Content" screen, all classic quizzes will be converted to new quizzes.

Migrate a QTI export file

Classic quizzes that have been exported to files in QTI format can be imported directly into an empty quiz in the New Quizzes tool. Follow the instructions in How do I import a quiz from a QTI package in New Quizzes?

Migrate question groups and question banks to item banks

If you use question groups and question banks in the Classic Quizzes, pay close attention to the information in New Quizzes Migration - Question Banks to Item Banks. Here are the highlights:

• Question banks must be linked to at least one question group in a quiz in order to migrate.
• Question groups with inline questions are converted to items banks.
• Course links in banked questions are broken after migration.
• Item banks are owned by people and can be shared with other people and courses The banks that you own are available for you to use in any of your courses.
• When you import quizzes with linked banks into a course, the migrated banks are automatically shared with the course.

Migration checklist

Migrating to New Quizzes may result in changes to your previously created quizzes and question banks. Following is a checklist of things to look for before assigning a migrated quiz to your students or creating quizzes with migrated item banks.

Migrated quizzes checklist

Review all migrated quizzes for the following:

• Check total number of questions in the quiz.
• Check total points in the quiz. If different, make sure all questions are present and inspect point values on individual questions.
• Make sure embedded media is still functional in Student View.
• Make sure linked media is still functional in Student View.
• Make sure "Text only" items are converted to stimulus questions. You can:
  • Create a new question attached to the stimulus, or
  • Add the content from the new stimulus question to the appropriate question(s) that follow it and delete the stimulus question.
• Check all quiz settings to make sure they are correct. If you don't want students to see their grades or feedback immediately after submission, enable Restrict Student Result View and check the boxes for the results that should remain hidden. Assessments created in New Quizzes do not respect the grade posting policy in the gradebook, so grades and feedback will be available immediately unless you take this step.
• Check instructions and question stems for missing vertical space between paragraphs. To add vertical space, manually insert a blank line between paragraphs.
• After migration, graded and ungraded surveys behave like quizzes (multiple choice and multiple answer questions are automatically assigned correct answers and graded as correct or incorrect). To create a proper survey, consider using Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, or Qualtrics for an ungraded survey or the Qualtrics LTI integration for graded surveys.

Migrated item banks checklist

Review all migrated item banks:

• Check total number of questions in bank.
• For questions with course links to Canvas pages or other course content, delete the course links as they will be broken for students. Currently there is no way to fix them.
• Questions are occasionally duplicated during bank migration. Remove all duplicates.
• Check question stems for missing vertical space between paragraphs. To add vertical space, manually insert a blank line between paragraphs.

Get help

For assistance with Canvas quiz migration issues, contact your campus teaching and learning center or campus IT Support Center.