Learn to create a quiz in Canvas

Notes: There are four different quiz types to choose from.

• A graded quiz will give students points based on their graded responses.
• A practice quiz will allow students to test out how well they understand the material without a grade.
• A graded survey will give students points for completing a survey. There are no correct or incorrect answers. 
• A practice survey will allow students to give their opinions without a grade.

Related Article: Add a Quiz to a Module, Create a Question Bank

How-To Guide

• Select Courses on the left hand side, then select All Courses.
      If you're an admin, make sure you have selected the correct school and course within that school.

• Select the course you want to create a quiz for. Select the Quizzes tab, then select + Quiz

• Fill in a quiz title, description, quiz type and assignment group.

• Fill in the optional fields.

• Select the Questions tab, select the + New Question.
• Fill in the question name, question type, points and text of the question.

• Select Find Questions to add a question from a quiz question bank.
• Type in answer choices If you selected a question type that requires students to select answers.
• Select the green arrow to select a correct answer.
• Select Update Question.

• Add comments to answer choices for students to read after they select an answer. 
• Select the comment icons under each answer choice to add a comment for that answer.     
• Select the comment icons at the bottom to add comments for each answer choice type (right  answers, wrong answers, all answers).
• Select Save & Publish when done adding questions.