- Importing and exporting quizzes
- Creating and sharing question banks
- Setting time limits on quizzes, including the option to give all or individual students extra time
- Moderating additional quiz attempts
- Limiting access by date and time
- Randomizing quiz questions from groups
- Password-locked (access code) quizzes
- Answer shuffling
- Multiple available comments for each answer selection
- Rich media integration
- Multiple question types (multiple choice, T/F, fill-in-the-blank, matching, essay, and more!)
- The option to show one question at a time, and to limit browsing back-and-forth between questions
To create a quiz, click the Quizzes link in the course navigation menu. Then click Create a New Quiz in the upper right-hand corner of the Quizzes page.

Enter a title and description, and then add questions by clicking on New Question.
To build a question, you will need:
- question title
- question points (quiz totals are calculated based on combined total of questions)
- question prompt text (use the Rich Content Editor to include video, images, math equations, or flash activities)
- text for each answer (if applicable)
- text for the feedback bubbles under each answer and/or at the end of the question (if applicable and desired)
For questions with exact answers, the correct answer will be designated by a green bubble.
Click Update Question to save the question to the quiz.
Once you have finished adding questions, Preview the quiz to see what the student will see when taking the quiz. Click Publish Quiz to make the work available to students (either immediately or at a specified later date/time).

Want to know more? Here are some great guides from Instructure:
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How do I create a quiz with a question group to randomize quiz questions?
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How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?
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How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?
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How do I create a Formula quiz question with a single variable?
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How do I import a question bank from one Canvas course to another?
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How can I create a quiz where students only see one question at a time?
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Once I publish a quiz, what kinds of quiz statistics are available?
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Once I publish a quiz, how can I give my students extra attempts?
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Once I publish a timed quiz, how can I give my students extra time?
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How do I manually submit outstanding student quiz submissions?