Why Should I Be Excited About New Quizzes?

Why make the switch? Here is an overview of some of the noteworthy new features.

Expanded Options for Questions Types

There are many new options for question types available in New Quizzes. These include:

• Categorization – With a Categorization question, you can create a question with two or more categories for students to sort answer choices into.
• Ordering – An Ordering question enables you to create a list of answer choices for students to rearrange into proper order (e.g., chronological, sequential, or narrative order).
• Hot Spot – A Hot Spot question allows you to include an image for students to identify a certain area within it (e.g., to select a specific location on a map).

Stimulus

New Quizzes gives instructors the ability to add Stimulus to their questions. With Stimulus, you have the new option to add questions and context to your questions. This could speed up student workflows when they may need to repeatedly refer to the same piece of content to respond to several different questions.

Easy to Set Accommodations

Do you have students with quiz time accommodations? With New Quizzes, you can add this extra time much more easily. Instead of having to include their accommodation for every quiz, now you can add additional time for every single one of their quizzes throughout the semester at once.

You can also use the new moderation page for easy access to many options regarding your quiz. These include the ability to view student results, quickly give specific students an extra attempt at a quiz, adjust their results on specific questions, adjust time limits, and more.

Improved Quiz Setting Options

New Quizzes offers an assortment of easier-to-use and more specific settings. Some of which include: required time between attempts, this requires a waiting time between new quiz attempts; shuffle questions globally, which easily allows you to shuffle the questions of a quiz; and shuffle answers per question. You can also select specific questions to shuffle answers on.

New Item Banks

New Quizzes has converted “Question Banks” to “Item Banks.” They include more functionality for sorting large groups of questions.

• Filter/sort and search – now, with improved search features, it is easier than ever to look for questions within your Item Banks to quickly find what you need. For example, you can quickly separate the Fill-in-the-blank questions from the multiple-choice questions.
• Tag items with metadata – with metadata, you can attach keywords to make searches easier. You could tag each question with the respective chapter from the textbook it relates to, allowing you to easily keep track of them.
• More ways to share – Instead of just a single course, you can now share your Item Banks with multiple courses or even with just a specific Canvas user.

More Analysis Options

With New Quizzes, you can use Outcomes to measure student quiz performance using rating scales and mastery levels. Classic quizzes previously only allowed Outcome alignment with “Question Banks”, but now you have more control. You can align individual questions to an Outcome or an entire quiz to an Outcome. You can also perform an Outcome Analysis that allows you to examine the mastery level of each student who has completed a quiz.

You can also perform a new Quiz and Item Analysis with expanded statistical and graphical features such as “Performance by Quintile,” which displays the number of students who scored within each percentage quintile as a bar chart.

These are only a few of the new features that make the introduction of New Quizzes exciting, from easier quiz creations to more engaging question types. With these features, New Quizzes can benefit both the instructor and the student by enhancing your Canvas quizzes.

Enabling New Quizzes

At Clemson, New Quizzes is currently a Feature Option. To utilize it in your Canvas Course, go to the Course Settings, and select the Feature Options tab. On that list, find the line for New Quizzes and click to Enable it in the State column. Then, once you create a quiz, it will ask you if you want to build a New Quiz or a classic one.

If you have questions or would like additional support setting up New Quizzes in your course, schedule a one-on-one consultation to meet with one of our team members.

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September 10, 1:30-2:30 PM

“Workshop Wednesday: Effective Canvas Organization and Course Design” will be held on Wednesday, September 10, from 1:30-2:30 pm! Join this training to learn more about designing and organizing your Canvas course to be intuitive, consistent, and clear for all learners.

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September 18, 10:00-11:00 AM

This training will prepare you for Clemson’s “E-Learning Day” on Monday, November 3, 2025. Learn about helpful resources, tips, and suggested activities to keep your students engaged during an online class day.

This training session will be held over Zoom. After completing the registration form, you will receive an Outlook calendar invitation, including the Zoom link. All registrants will be sent a copy of the recorded training.

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Facilitated by Millie Tullis, Digital Learning Strategist.

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We have a robust lineup of topics and live training formats to support your use of Canvas and other e-learning tools. Topics cover demonstrations of using Kaltura, engaging your students, and workshops to get your Canvas site ready to teach!

All of our live training is recorded. Registrants will automatically receive a link to that day’s video after it has been processed.

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