The Quiz tool can be used to administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes and surveys can be graded or ungraded.?
Use the Assignment tool if you are giving an in-class quiz. This tool allows you to enter the quiz name, total points, and due date and automatically creates a column in the gradebook for you to manually enter the student quiz grades. Use the Quiz tool only if you are giving an online quiz.
How-to Guides
add a Quiz
add Quiz Questions
Getting Started with New Quizzes (UNH Knowledge Base article)
New Quizzes Faculty Guide (Canvas Community)
Best Practices
- Use clear and detailed instructions in your assessments.
- Use a Due Date so that students know when to submit the assessment.
Minimizing Cheating on Quizzes/Exams
When quizzing or testing is appropriate, use Canvas quiz settings to make the test more secure and mitigate cheating.
- Set Time Limits. When you set a time limit for a quiz, students who are unprepared risk not having sufficient time to finish all the test questions. This deters looking up answers, as that takes time. Please remember to provide an alternate quiz with timing that accommodates any student identified by Student Accessibility Services as needing additional time for quizzes and tests. If you are setting a Time Limit in the quiz, the Available From and Until dates do not need to be set to the same time as in the Time Limit. Best practice is to make the Available From and Until dates a wider time range to allow students time to access the quiz. The timer will start when the students start the quiz and the quiz will end automatically at the end of the allotted Time Limit.
- Shuffle Multiple Choice Answers. While students get the same question, they might not have the same answer options. Don't use this if your question has an option like "all of the answers above."
- Display Questions One at a Time. It will be easier for students to take a screen-shot of the full exam and share with their peers if all the questions are displayed at once.
- Require Text Entry. In addition to multiple choice questions, consider asking one or two higher-order questions that require students to synthesize answers from their knowledge on a few key concepts. Questions that extend past fact-recall will ensure that you are assessing students’ knowledge and understanding.
- Use question banks. The question bank will generate a quiz with random questions from the question bank. If the question bank is large enough, students will have less chance of getting the same questions for the same exam.
- Randomize quiz questions. You can randomize the order of the questions so students are not likely to get the same questions in the same sequence when taking a test.
- Use the Respondus Lockdown Browser to lock down the testing environment in Canvas. When students use Lockdown Browser to take a quiz, they are unable to print, copy, visit other websites, access other applications, or close a quiz until it is submitted for grading.
Respondus Browser Lockdown Guides
Instructor Quick Start Guide
Faculty Overview
Student Overview
