An Introduction to New Quizzes

Bruin Learn An Introduction to New Quizzes

What is New Quizzes?

New Quizzes is the second-generation quiz engine and assessment tool. Canvas' original quiz engine, now referred to as Classic Quizzes, is being maintained but is no longer in active development. Both New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes are available to instructors in Bruin Learn. 

What are the benefits of New Quizzes?

New Quizzes offers feature enhancements, new item types, and workflow improvements for instructors. 

New & enhanced question types

 New Quizzes retains all question types from Classic, and adds four new types:

  1. Categorization
  2. Hot Spot
  3. Ordering
  4. Stimulus

Learn more about question types in New Quizzes. 

Shareable question banks

"Item Banks" are the New Quizzes equivalent of "Question Banks" from Classic Quizzes.

Item Banks are linked to your user account so you can access them in any course you teach. Item Banks can also be shared with anyone using Bruin Learn. Learn more about Item Banks. 

Timed accommodations for each student

Time accommodations can be set to be the same for an individual student across all New Quizzes within a course. Learn how to add CAE Accommodations in New Quizzes. 

More question types can be regraded

Previously, only 3 question types (Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, and True or False) could be regraded in Classic Quizzes. In New Quizzes, most question types can be regraded, except for Essay and File Upload.

Simplified user experience for building and managing quizzes

The 'Build' tool, or quiz builder, centralizes the functions for creating questions, reviewing and moderating submissions, adding accommodations, and viewing reports.

Please refer to Instructure's Canvas New Quizzes Feature Comparison Links to an external site. document for a detailed comparison between New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes. 

What are the limitations of New Quizzes?

Some of the commonly used features in Classic Quizzes that are currently not available in New Quizzes:

New Quizzes is still in active development to bring it to full feature parity with Classic Quizzes. For the latest news about features currently under development, check in with Instructure's New Quizzes Roadmap Links to an external site.. For a list of current known issues and bugs, please visit Canvas Known Issues (Quizzes) Links to an external site..

Bulk Migration Update

2023-01-23: There is an upcoming feature in the Canvas Release Notes (2025-02-15) Links to an external site. that will migrate Classic Quiz Questions Banks into New Quizzes Item Banks as part of a course copy.

Workarounds for Graded/Ungraded Surveys in New Quizzes

How do I get started?

If, after reviewing the benefits and limitations above, you've decided to try New Quizzes, these are the steps we recommend (preferably in a sandbox site) to get started:

1. Enable New Quizzes.

At UCLA, New Quizzes are disabled by default and must be enabled in your Course Settings. Learn how to enable New Quizzes. 

2. Migrate your existing (Classic) quizzes.

  1. Migrate existing quizzes.
  2. Migrate your Classic Quiz Question Banks to New Quizzes Item Banks.

3. Review the settings on your migrated quizzes.

Review the Creating New Quizzes module to learn how to create and edit quiz settings.

4.Take quizzes as a test student.

Review your questions as a test taker using one of the following methods:

Requested Features

UCLA faculty and instructional support staff have requested a number of features from quizzes, in general, which are listed on the following page, UCLA Quiz Feature Requests.

Try It! Take a New Quiz

To try out the student experience of taking a New Quiz, you can self-enroll in this course as a student and gain access to our sample quizzes and interactive activities.

After you have enrolled, you can take a New Quiz as a student. 

Module Checklist

The Module Checklist is not available on the Canvas App. Tap on Modules to see additional module items.

This page was last updated: 2025-01-23