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There are 2 "Quiz Engines" in Canvas: Classic Quizzes (CQ) and New Quizzes (NQ). See the full feature comparison between CQ and NQ prepared by Canvas: Classic Quizzes/New Quizzes Feature Comparison. As of March 2022, the following are cases that may warrant the use of Classic Quizzes:
- If you want a Practice Quiz or Ungraded Survey (which will not appear in Canvas Gradebook) or a graded survey. There is currently no survey functionality in NQ. Therefore, if you plan to use surveys long-term in your courses, we recommend the third-party tool Qualtrics (http:\\framingham.qualtrics.com).
- If you rely on certain features of the RCE (Accessibility Checker, E Plug, HTML editor, Embedding)
- Note: This is a deal-breaker for many users for NQ, there has been vocal backlash, and Canvas is actively working on it
- It is somewhat easier to import content as a Classic Quiz (but you could always import then migrate)
- You need to download CSV of quiz statistic report
On the other hand, there are several distinct advantages of New Quizzes:
- Better Lockdown Browser experience: LDB has an auto launch feature in new Quizzes. Very helpful. However, LBD does indeed work with both, including on Chromebook.
- Better moderation for accommodations
- Better shuffling: Shuffle questions globally, shuffle answers globally AND per-question
- Easier Sharing of Banks
- Better Printing of Quizzes
- Better navigation and manipulation of banks: Tagging, Searching, Sorting filtering
- More question types: Categorization, Ordering, Hot Spot, Stimulus
- Show calculator on Quiz
- When you edit an item in the bank, it updates the question in quizzes that use that question (this is NOT the case in Classic)