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Canvas - Quiz and Exam Tools Comparison
An overview of the exam/quiz tools available in Canvas.
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Question Types
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | Assignments1 | Akindi |
Categorization | No | No | No | |
Essay | No | |||
Fill in the Blank | No | No | ||
Fill in Multiple Blanks | No | No | ||
File Upload | No | |||
Formula | Yes (Single Variable, Simple Formula) | No | No | |
Hot Spot | No | No | No | |
Matching | No | No | ||
Multiple Answer | No | |||
Multiple Choice | No | |||
Multiple Dropdown | No | No | ||
Numeric | No | No | ||
Ordering | No | No | No | |
Stimulus/Passage | No | No | No | |
Text (No Question) | Text can be included as stimulus content but the stimulus type requires adding questions related to the content | No | Built into assessment PDF. | |
True/False | No | Yes, using A, B options. | ||
*Images | Built into assessment PDF. |
Quiz Settings
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | Assignments | Akindi | |
| Availability day/time | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Timed | Yes | Yes | No, based on availability dates | Yes |
| Extend deadlines (time & attempts) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple attempts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No, create a new assessment or re-take options. |
| Shuffle answers | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, multiple versions |
| Shuffle questions | If questions are pulled in from a question bank for a question group. | Yes | No | Yes, scramble questions |
| One question at a time | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Lock questions after answering | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Students view responses | Yes | Yes | Yes1 | Instructor can email results to students. |
| Respondus Lockdown Browser and/or Monitor | Yes | Yes | No2 | No2 |
1 Students can view what they submitted. Manual grading is needed so they would not be able to see until released by instructor.
2 A solution would be to have students in a Zoom room while taking the test so instructor could proctor.
Grading
| Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes | Assignments | Akindi | |
| Speedgrader | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Rubric | Can be attached, but not automatically input as grade. | Yes | Yes, and can be used as grade. | No |
| View Quiz Log | Yes | Yes | N/A | See during an online assessment. |
| Add Fudge Points | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Automatically grade questions | Yes1 | Yes1 | No | Yes |
1As you are creating the quiz, you input the correct answers. Essay questions will need to be manually graded.