We recommend creating quiz questions
within a question bank. Question
Banks are a place to house questions that
can be added to quizzes across courses or
accounts.
This helpdoc includes instructions for:
- Creating Question Banks
- Adding Questions to Question Banks
- Adding Question Bank to Quiz
Create Question Bank
1. Select
the Quizzes tab on your
course sidebar.
2. Click on the
button at the top right of the page
and select Manage Question
Banks.


3. Click Add Question Bank.
4. Enter a name for your new question bank and
click the Enter key on your
keyboard.

Add Questions
1. Click on your new question bank.

2. Click Add a
Question on your question bank's
page.

Canvas provides a general quiz question
layout.
3. Name the question, select the type of question, and enter the number of points for
the question.

- Note: The sum of all individual
question points determines the quiz total
points.
4. Follow our Canvas Quiz Question Types doc for further instruction on how to structure your quiz questions according to their types: Canvas Quiz Question Types - TMU Faculty/Staff IT Resources
5. Once you have finished your
question, click Update
Question to save your progress,
and Add a Question to begin a
new question.


Adding Question Bank to a Quiz
1. Once you have created the
questions for your quiz within the question
bank, navigate to Quizzes on your
sidebar, select the
menu
next to
your quiz, then click Edit.


2. Click on
the Questions tab,
then Find Questions at the bottom of the quiz to import
your new question bank.
Note: New Question would
allow you to create questions apart from a
question bank and would only be accessible
within that quiz. New Question
Group would give you the options to
link to a question bank, randomize
question orders, and have Canvas randomly
choose a number (of your choosing) of
questions from the question bank.

3. You should now see a list of all your
question banks to pick from. You can
select individual questions from your
questions bank or Select All to use
it's intirety.

4.
You can add your questions to a group within
the quiz by clicking the dropdown menu under Add questions to the question
group.

5. Select Add Questions and you will
have successfully imported you question
bank!
Please don't hesitate to send an
email to LMS Support at lmssupport@masters.edu for
any additional Canvas inquiries.