Quiz Banks- Create Quiz Banks From Your Existing Quizzes

Would you like to create question banks from your existing quizzes? In Canvas you can create a quiz bank for quizzes by exporting your existing quiz content.

Export Quiz Banks from a Canvas Course (Mgardner).pdf

Step-By-Step Instructions

To export quiz questions as question banks,

Screenshots of each step to this process

Go to the course that you’d like to create quiz banks from. Click “Settings” on the left hand navigation bar of your course.
On the right hand side of the page, click “Export Course Content”
Select “Quiz” as the Export Type.
A box will expand, listing all your quizzes. Select the ones that you’d like to create question banks for and click “Create Export”. A blue bar will appear and show the export process. This part may take a bit
Under “Content Exports” you will see blue lettering which is your most recent export with a timestamp. Click on it to download the QTI file
You will see the file download at the bottom of your screen. It will default save to your “Downloads” folder.

Helpful Tips

Make sure you don’t open the Zip file. You will not be able to “See” it’s contents
You can select all quiz content OR select specific quizzes to export.