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June 12, 2020
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1. Create a Classic quiz and name it whatever you want the item bank to be named in New
Quizzes. One thing to note here - all of the item banks for all the classes I teach are in
the same massive item bank area in New Quizzes, so I've started including the course
code at the front of the item bank name. I don't know if that's universal or just how my
institution has it set up, but it's a little annoying.
2. Move all of the questions for that bank into that quiz. I click on "Find Questions",
navigate to the bank I'm migrating, and then click "Select All" and add those to the
quiz. Don't do the question group, the migration will fail. I've also tried making one big
quiz for export and then sorting out questions into their proper item banks later, but
the two big issues I've run into with this method are:
1. The order of questions might not be maintained, so questions from each
topic/chapter may not stay grouped together, making it harder to find the
questions for the right bank
2. There's no way I've found to move multiple questions at the same time in the New
Quizzes item banks, so you'd have to repeat all the clicks to move each question
individually. Either way, it's endless repetition and clicking on things; for me, I
prefer to keep the questions for each bank grouped throughout the transfer.
3. Save the quiz without publishing, since it's really just there for transfer and not for
students to take.
4. Go to Settings, then click on Export Course Content.
5. Select Export Type - Quiz.
6. Uncheck everything, then select one quiz to export (I've already tried doing multiple
quizzes in the same export, it either fails completely or only imports the first quiz's
questions to the new item bank).
7. Export the quiz and download the file from Canvas.
8. Go to any New Quiz in your assignments list or make a new one for importing purposes.
9. Click on the three dots in the upper right corner, then click Manage Item Banks.
10. Click on the +Bank button to add a new item bank (I know, I know, I'm importing a
bank so I should be able to just import it, right? Nope. I need to have a bank made in
order to import the questions into it).
11. Name the bank whatever you want, it'll get changed to your quiz name when you
import the questions.
12. Find the item bank you just made (they're listed in alphabetical order) and click on it.
13. Click on the three dots in the upper right corner and then click on Import Content.
Moving Classic Quiz Test Bank to New Quiz Item Bank