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Creating a New Quiz involves three steps: establishing the assignment settings in Canvas, launching the Quiz Builder, and finally adding your questions and content. New Quizzes is the recommended tool for assessment, offering advanced question types, greater security, and powerful Item Banks for managing your content. Follow this step-by-step guide to quickly set up your …
This question type is highly effective for testing knowledge of chronological events, operational procedures (steps in a process), or hierarchical ranking. When setting up the question, you simply define the items in their correct final order; the quiz will automatically shuffle them for the students. All question configuration occurs within the New Quizzes editor (the …
Announcements are the most effective way to broadcast important information, updates, or reminders to all students of your course. This guide shows you how to write your message and schedule it for a future date. Hints and Tips
New Quizzes is the updated assessment tool in Canvas, offering advanced question types, better security, and Item Banks. Because it is considered a feature preview, it is not always automatically enabled. This guide provides the quick steps to activate the tool and set up your first assessment shell. If the New Quizzes option isn’t appearing …
To keep your students informed without overwhelming them, you can configure your course to display a set number of your most recent announcements directly on the Home page. Hints and Tips
The Stimulus feature allows you to present a shared piece of content—such as a case study, image, or reading passage—that applies to a group of related questions. Use a Stimulus when you have multiple questions based on a single piece of information. This keeps your quiz design clean and professional, prevents content redundancy, and ensures …
Subscribing to your Canvas Calendar in Microsoft Outlook ensures that all your course deadlines and personal events appear alongside your staff meetings and emails. This feature uses a special URL feed to keep the calendars automatically synced. Get Your Unique Calendar Feed Link from Canvas Add the Feed to Microsoft Outlook The exact steps vary …
These features are exclusive to Classic Quizzes. New Quizzes uses the updated, more flexible feature called Item Banks. When creating new assessments, we recommend using Item Banks in the New Quizzes environment. The primary purpose of using Banks and Groups together is to enable randomisation, which is key to creating fair, secure, and repeatable assessments. …
Constructive alignment is a teaching design idea that helps learners achieve learning goals clearly and confidently. In this video, you’ll learn what constructive alignment is and how it makes course design stronger and more meaningful. Constructive alignment means matching three parts of teaching so they all work together. First are the learning outcomes—what students should …
Knowing how to change a course nickname in Canvas helps you customise how courses appear in your dashboard. A clear and meaningful nickname makes it easier to find courses quickly, especially if you manage many at the same time. In the video, you’ll see how to open your Canvas course list and edit a course …
IgniteAI in Canvas is a set of built-in AI tools designed to help you and your ākonga work more efficiently and understand course content more easily. It supports everyday tasks while keeping you in control. The tools listed below are the IgniteAI features currently enabled in our Canvas. Other features exist, but this article focuses …
IgniteAI Search is an AI-powered tool in Canvas that helps lecturers and students quickly find course content using everyday language. It understands the meaning of search terms and returns relevant results from published course materials. It does not search Files or student submissions. IgniteAI Search returns results from published: When a search is entered, it …
IgniteAI Translations helps users read course content in their preferred language. It is available in Discussions and Announcements. This feature currently supports the following languages: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The following guide will be using Discussions but the steps are the same in both. Disable Translation …
IgniteAI Discussion Summary uses generative AI to create a clear overview of the main points, key questions, and central ideas in a discussion thread. The summary is only available to lecturers, helping you quickly understand the direction and depth of student conversations. Using Discussion Summary can save time and help lecturers identify key themes quickly. …
This guide explains the purpose of the Canvas Quizzes tool, outlines the essential benefits of quizzing, and clarifies the key differences between the original Classic Quizzes and the modern New Quizzes. The Role of Quizzes The Quiz tool in Canvas is a versatile assignment type used to create and administer online quizzes, tests, exams, and …
