Why New Quizzes?

As we continually strive to enhance our educational tools and practices, we're excited to introduce you to Canvas New Quizzes. This new feature represents a significant advancement in assessment capabilities within our learning management system.

What is New Quizzes?

New Quizzes is an advanced assessment engine designed to engage students and elevate the quizzing experience throughout our district. Eventually, Classic Quizzes will be retired. The retirement date has not yet been set. Therefore it is necessary to prepare you for this transition and highlight the benefits it will bring to our educational community.

Benefits for Instructors

New Quizzes offers several features that will streamline your quiz-building process and enhance your ability to assess student learning:

Item Banks: Easily organize and share quiz questions across courses.
Quiz Moderation: Greater control over quiz settings and student attempts.
Robust Reporting: Gain deeper insights into student performance and quiz effectiveness.
Improved Building and Grading Tools: Including enhanced integration with SpeedGrader.
Outcomes Alignment: Better align your assessments with course and program outcomes.

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Benefits for Students

The new interface provides a modern, clean quizzing experience that supports student success:

Distraction-Free Environment: A streamlined interface helps students focus on the assessment.
Question Pinning: Students can flag questions for review, improving time management during quizzes.
Diverse Question Types: More ways for students to demonstrate their understanding.
Individualized Feedback: Opportunities for more targeted and meaningful feedback.
Personalized Accommodations: Easier implementation of necessary accommodations for students who need them.

Graphic explaining new quiz enhancements for Students.

Benefits for SDCCD

Adopting New Quizzes will help us create a culture of high-quality, consistent assessment practices across our district:

Improved Collaboration: Easier sharing of quiz content among faculty.
Enhanced Data Analysis: Better tools for understanding student performance at course and program levels.
Streamlined Processes: Simplified quiz creation and management for faculty across all our campuses.

Graphic illustrating Canvas New Quizzes benefits for SDCCD.

Moving Forward

While we don't have a retirement date set for Classic Quizzes, it is recommended that you prepare for the full transition to New Quizzes in order to become comfortable with the new user interface and features. We're committed to ensuring that you're well-prepared for this change. This module is designed to introduce you to the key features and benefits of New Quizzes, helping you understand how it will enhance your teaching and your students' learning experiences.

New Quizzes Transition Toolkit