Creating a quiz to let students test knowledge is an important part of the learning journey for students. This is chance for them to work through the learning they have been provided with and test their knowledge and receive feedback.

Ideas for quizzes:

Short quiz prior to new learning - students can see their current knowledge and you can adjust your session
Set quiz at the end of a topic or week to help solidify learning
Shaped as reflection tools used throughout learning
Checkout Practice / Production from the ABC Learning Design for further ideas and benefits

Open Quizzes

In the Module Navigation, click the Quizzes link

Click the Add Quiz button.

Set options in Quiz - you can chose what is best for your style of quiz (revision, prior knowledge quiz, during session quiz, follow up)

It is vital you write clear instructions [1] for your students as to WHY this quiz has been made - is it for revision? When are they to complete it? You can upload data sets, YouTube videos, images for them to work from answer questions on.

Quiz type [2] to be set accordingly - Graded for Summative, Practice for everything else

Place quiz is assignment group [3]

Set Quiz options

Quiz settings have several options.

Shuffle Answers [1]: You can shuffle (randomize) answers.

Time Limit [2]: You can choose to set a time limit by entering the number of minutes students have to complete the entire quiz. Timed quizzes begin once a student begins the exam and do not pause if the student navigates away from the quiz. If no time limit is set, students will have unlimited time to complete the quiz.

Note: If a timed quiz is automatically submitted after a student loses internet connectivity, the submission time stamp and time to complete the quiz may not align with the allotted time limit and/or the availability dates.

Multiple Attempts [3]: You can allow multiple attempts. Key for revision quizzes.

Quiz Responses [4]: You can choose to allow students to view their answers, any automatic feedback generated by the quiz for correct or incorrect answers, and which questions they got wrong. Quizzes default to this option, so if you do not want students to see their quiz responses, deselect the checkbox.

As part of this option, you can restrict students view of the quiz results to Only Once After Each Attempt [5]. Students will only be able to view the results immediately after they have completed the quiz—results include both their responses and the correct answers.

Notes:

This option may not be appropriate for quizzes that require manual grading, such as essay questions, where students would require additional views to see the updated results.
When a quiz is saved with the Only Once After Each Attempt option, you can use the Moderate Quiz feature to give students additional views to their quiz results.

Correct Answers [6]: You can allow students to see correct quiz answers after completing the quiz. This setting enables a green Correct tab on every correct answer for the entire quiz. Quizzes default to this option, so if you do not want students to see the correct answers, deselect the checkbox.

As a part of this option, you can also control when and for how long students can see the correct answers by setting dates (and specific times, if desired) in the Show and Hide fields.

To show answers immediately after quiz is submitted, leave the Show and Hide fields blank.
To create a date range to display the answers, set a start date in the Show field and an ending date in the Hide field.
To always show answers after a specific date, set a date in the Show field.
To hide answers after a specific date, set a date in the Hide field.

Note: If the Only Once After Each Attempt option is selected, it will override any show or hide dates or times. If you want to show or hide correct answers on any specific date or time, the Only Once option should not be selected.

One Question at a Time [7]: You can show one question at a time

Assign Quiz and Dates

In the Assign field [1], you can assign the quiz to everyone, a course section, or an individual student.

You can set the Due Date [2], Available From date [3], and available Until date [4] for the quiz. These fields are optional and can be set depending how you want to manage the quiz:

Due Date: the date and time that the Quiz is due
Available From: the date and time when the Quiz will become available for students to take the quiz
Until: the date and time when students can no longer take the quiz

Learn more about due and availability dates.

Notes:

If you have set section override dates in your module, you may need to select a course section and set due and availability dates that fall within the section override dates.
If you change the due date of a quiz that students have already begun but not submitted, their quiz submissions will auto-submit based on the date and time of the original due date.
For auto-submitted quizzes, the submission time stamp reflects a five minute grace period that begins once the due date and time have passed and may not align with the assigned due date and time.

Click Next to learn about the different question types you can chose

You can click on Units to look through the other helpful guides on how to use Canvas discussions, quizzes, conferences (Big Blue Button), Panopto for pre-recording lecture content and Microsoft Teams to support your teaching.