Add questions to a Canvas quiz

The following resource will provides a step by step guide to setting up a quiz shell, adding questions from a question bank and, if required, randomising the questions using question groups.

Follow the instructions in the resource Create questions for online exams in Canvas if you have not already set up your question banks.

Question groups

A question group enables questions to be selected randomly. You can add multiple question groups to a quiz.  This gives each student a unique experience of the quiz, with questions that are different to those of their peers. This minimises opportunities for cheating to occur.

For each question group you create, you can specify the number of questions which will be randomly pulled from an existing question bank for students to respond to. All the questions in a question group are worth the same number of marks.

Add your questions in a Canvas quiz

1. Navigate to your exam site in Canvas.

2. Select ‘Quizzes’ from the left hand course navigation menu.

3. Select the ‘Add Quiz’ button to create a new quiz. Or select an existing quiz from the list.

4. The ‘Details’ tab contains the quiz settings, which are very important for the exam to run as required with maximum academic integrity. Quiz settings are covered in the following resource page Recommended settings for online exams in Canvas.

5. Select the ‘Questions’ tab.

6. Select one of the following options for adding questions to your quiz:

• New question group – select if you want to randomise the questions in your exam. Use the instructions in the Canvas guide to creating a question group linked to a question bank. More information is provided in the question groups section at the end of this resource.
• Find questions – select if you want to add questions to your exam in a particular order. Select the relevant question bank from the left hand menu, and tick the boxes next to the questions you want to add to the exam. Scroll down and select ‘Add questions’.

7. Select ‘Save’ to save a draft of your exam. You should not publish the exam until the correct settings have been entered. Recommended settings for online exams will be provided in a forthcoming LX resource.