New Quizzes have areas of improved functionality over Classic Quizzes as well as areas that still need improvement. A comparison document, created by Instructure and updated with the most current information, outlines the differences between Classic and New Quizzes.

New Features

A clean, modern, and user-friendly interface for assessment building and assessment taking.
A mobile-friendly quiz design.
Four new question types: hot-spot, ordering, categorization, and stimulus questions.
Once a time extension accommodation is set up for a student, it is applied automatically to all New Quizzes in the course.
The instructor can include a waiting period between exam attempts.
Quiz question order can be randomly shuffled.
Quiz questions can be shuffled at the quiz level, and answer choices can be shuffled and the quiz or question level.
A calculator (basic or scientific) can be displayed with specific questions or made available throughout an entire quiz.
An option to set a word limit and display a word count for essay questions.
The ability to print out a New Quiz with and without the answer key.

Features Still Being Improved

There are some known New Quiz issues that Canvas continues to work to improve. Visit Canvas's Transparency Timeline for more information.

Bulk migration is currently not available. Canvas is developing a bulk migration tool to migrate all Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes while importing course content from one semester to the next.
Classic Quizzes can be individually migrated, but the ease of doing so depends upon how questions are stored in the quiz.
- Classic Quizzes containing a series of individual questions can normally be migrated quickly and accurately.
- Classic Quizzes containing groups of questions migrate easily, but each group becomes a linked Item Bank in the New Quiz.
- Linked Questions Banks do not currently migrate. A multi-step process of converting each Question Bank to a group of questions can be used to migrate this type of Classic Quiz.
New Quizzes does not offer practice quizzes. As a workaround, give the New Quiz a value of zero points on its Assignment details screen and select not to include in the final grade.
New Quizzes does not offer a survey option.
New Quiz statistical reports cannot be exported as CSV, making more in-depth data analysis harder.
Designers and TAs in a course do not have access to create or edit a New Quiz. ISU has created a Designer New Quizzes Role that can be used in the meantime.

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