How Do I Use Item Banks in New Quizzes?

Canvas Guides

Creating an item bank

• Canvas guide: How do I create an item bank in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
• Canvas guide: How do I add content to an item bank in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.

Editing and managing item banks

• Canvas guide: How do I manage item banks in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
• Canvas guide: How do I edit an item bank item in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
• Canvas guide: How do I move or copy a question from one item bank to another in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.

Adding item bank questions to a quiz

• Canvas guide: How do I add an item from an item bank to an assessment in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.
• Canvas guide: How do I add all items or a random set from an item bank to an assessment in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.

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Migrate Classic Quiz Questions Into a New Quiz Item Bank

When To Use:

• Import questions on a classic quiz into a New Quiz item bank.
• Can be done one quiz at a time.
• Can add questions from a question bank to a classic quiz. Then export classic quiz and import into an Item Bank.

Expected result: Questions included in a classic quiz will be populated into an Item Bank.

Steps:

1. Export Classic Quiz:
   1. From the course menu in the old course, click on Settings.
   2. On the top right, click Export Course Content.
   3. Under Export Type, select "Quiz"
   4. Select the Quiz that you wish to export.
      Note: For this process, you can only do one quiz export and import at a time.
   5. Click the Export link to download the QTI file to your computer.
   6. You may wish to rename the downloaded file. E.g., MATH_100-1_Exam1.qti
      
      
2. Import exported quiz file into an Item Bank:
   
   1. In your Canvas course menu in the new course, click Quizzes.
   2. Click on an existing New Quiz or click + Quiz to create a New Quiz.
   3. On the quiz build screen, at the very top right, click the three-dot menu and select Manage Item Banks.
   4. Click + Bank to create a new item bank.
   5. Click the new item bank you created.
   6. At the very top right, click the three-dot menu and select Import Content.
   7. Browse and locate the exported classic quiz QTI file you downloaded.
   8. Click Import.
      Note: the name of the item bank will change to name of the quiz you exported.

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Migrate a Classic Question Bank to a New Quiz Item Bank

When to use: While we are waiting for a tool to do this for us, there is a way to manually move a classic question bank to a new quiz item bank.

1. Create a classic quiz in your course.
2. Add the questions from a question bank to your classic quiz. Do not use questions groups!
3. Save the quiz.
4. Follow Step 2 above (Import exported quiz file into an Item Bank) to export the quiz and then import its questions into a New Quiz Item Bank.

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Sharing an Item Bank

Canvas guide: How do I share an item bank in New Quizzes? Links to an external site.

• An item bank is associated with a specific user in Canvas.
• A user can choose to share their item bank with other instructors or TA’s, we recommend, in the same course.
  • To avoid complications, we recommend that you DO NOT share items banks with instructors in different courses.
• Sharing an item bank gives users full access to the item bank, including adding items to the bank, sharing, or removing users from the bank, and deleting the bank. 
• Changing a question in an item bank changes the question for all users with access to that item bank.
• Changing questions in the item bank will change the question on a quiz IF students have not yet taken the quiz.
  • IF students have already taken the quiz, the question changed in the item bank will not change on the quiz.