As we prepare for the transition to New Quizzes, we want to highlight some of the most exciting features that will enhance your teaching and assessment capabilities. This overview will introduce you to three key aspects of New Quizzes that we believe will significantly improve your experience and benefit your students.

1. Innovative Question Types

New Quizzes introduces several new question types that will allow you to create more engaging and varied assessments:

Stimulus

Present students with a passage, image, or other content on the left side of the screen
Add multiple questions related to the stimulus on the right side
Ideal for reading comprehension, data analysis, or image interpretation questions

Categorization

Ask students to sort items into correct categories
Include "distractor" items that don't belong in any category
Perfect for assessing understanding of classifications, groupings, or relationships

Hot Spot

Upload an image and have students select specific areas as their answer
Great for anatomy, geography, or any visual-based questions
Note: This question type is not accessible for screen reader users

These new question types will allow you to create more dynamic and interactive assessments, better aligned with various learning objectives and subject matters.

2. Enhanced Quiz Features

New Quizzes offers several improvements that will streamline your quiz creation and management process:

These features will give you more control over your assessments and support various pedagogical approaches, from formative practice to summative evaluation.

3. Item Banks

In Canvas New Quizzes, "Item Banks" are collections of quiz questions that instructors can create and store for use in various assessments across different courses. These banks serve a similar purpose to the "Question Banks" in the classic quiz engine but are specifically designed for the New Quizzes format. Instructors can create item banks from scratch or by adding questions from existing quizzes. Once created, item banks can be shared with other instructors or courses, allowing for collaborative use and management of quiz content. This feature enables instructors to efficiently organize and reuse questions, making it easier to build and modify quizzes over time

Item Banks in New Quizzes offer a powerful way to organize and reuse your question content:

Cross-Course Sharing: Share Item Banks at the account level, facilitating collaboration with colleagues and ensuring consistency across course sections.
Enhanced Organization:
- Tag items with metadata for easy searching and filtering
  Canvas Guide: How do I edit an item bank item in New Quizzes?
- Create banks for specific topics, units, or difficulty levels
Flexible Usage:
- Pull individual items or random selections from banks into your quizzes
- Easily update shared items to reflect changes in curriculum or correct errors

Item Banks will save you time in quiz creation, support standardization where needed, and make it easier to maintain and improve your assessment content over time.

As we move closer to implementing New Quizzes, we'll provide more detailed guidance on how to leverage these features effectively. We're excited about the possibilities these tools offer for enhancing your teaching and your students' learning experiences at SDCCD.

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