How do I create quizzes in bCourses?

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Creating Quizzes in bCourses

How do I create a quiz in bCourses with individual questions?

To create a quiz with individual questions, please see How do I create a quiz with individual questions? You can create all quizzes this way; but if you plan on reusing quiz questions or want to randomize questions, using question groups and question banks is recommended.

How do I use question banks in bCourses?

Question banks allow instructors to save and organize quiz questions that will be available for use on any specific quiz. See What are question banks? for more details on what a question bank is.

To learn how to create a question bank, see How do I create a question bank in a course?
For instructions on how to use questions from a question bank on a quiz, see How do I create a quiz by finding questions in a question bank?

How do I create and use question groups in bCourses?

Question groups are groups of questions within a quiz that are randomized for each student taking the quiz. Question groups are useful if you want to prevent cheating on a quiz by giving all students slightly different questions.

To create a question group that draws from questions you input directly into the quiz, see How do I create a question group to randomize quiz questions?
To create a question group that draws from a question bank, see How do I create a quiz with a question group linked to a question bank?

Assigning Quizzes and Changing Quiz Dates

How do I assign a quiz to a specific student or course section?

To learn about your options for assigning quizzes, please see How do I assign a quiz to everyone, individual students, differentiation tags, or sections?

How do I change quiz due dates and availability dates?

To change the availability date of one quiz, please see How do I make a quiz available before or after the due date?
To change the availability and due dates of multiple quizzes, please see How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates as an instructor?

For a video walkthrough of most of the procedures in this article, review the Quizzes Overview. For further information about bCourses quizzes, please see the Quizzes section of the Canvas Instructor Guide.