Convert your Canvas Quizzes

Posted on: 29 April 2021 by Strategic Change Communications Team in Canvas at Liverpool

Canvas, our new VLE, offers colleagues the ability to create interactive quizzes within their courses. Quizzes in Canvas come in two forms – ‘Classic Quizzes’ and ‘New Quizzes’.

Classic Quizzes are the original quiz types that were made available in Canvas and contain the base functionality of quizzes. New Quizzes, on the other hand, are in ongoing development by Instructure with a view to adding improved functionality, such as new question types and more responsive analytics. You can read more about the difference between the two here.

Converting your quizzes

When your course content from VITAL is transferred over to Canvas, your quizzes will also be transferred into your course. However, all quizzes will by default transfer over as ‘Classic Quizzes’. If you want to take advantage of the question types available to ‘New Quizzes’, you will have to manually convert your quiz. The good news is that this is really easy and can all be done within Canvas.

To do this, simply:

On your dashboard homepage, select ‘Courses’ from the left-side menu.
Select the course that holds the quiz you wish to convert.
On the left-side menu of the course, select ‘Quizzes’.
Select the quiz you want to convert.
Point your cursor over the three dots icon to the right of your quiz and select ‘Migrate’ when the drop-down menu appears.

This will convert your quiz to a New Quiz. You will be able to tell this has been successful if the rocket next to your quiz on the menu goes to a bold black, rather than green (published classic) or grey (unpublished classic).

Find out more

For more on Classic and New Quizzes, you can read our blog here. For more on the progress of the Canvas project, read our project blog here.

Keywords: Canvas, Quizzes.