Advanced notice: Canvas Classic Quizzes to be retired June 2024 – will you be ready?

Posted on: 13 June 2022 by Strategic Change Communications Team in Canvas at Liverpool

At the moment staff can currently use two quiz engines within Canvas (‘Classic’ and ‘New Quizzes’). Going forward, new features will only be added to New Quizzes and Instructure has recently announced that Classic Quizzes will not be available after 30 June 2024.

As such all staff are advised to start using New Quizzes as much as possible when building new content for the 2022/23 academic year and to start migrating any Classic Quizzes over to New Quizzes as soon as possible.

Furthermore, to minimise future disruption, teaching teams are strongly encouraged to only use New Quizzes during the 2023/24 academic year so minimising potential disruption during the resit period.

Moving from Classic to New Quizzes

For the vast majority of quizzes, converting questions from one engine to the other will be straight forward thanks to the ‘Migration tool’ that has been developed in Canvas to automate the process (see section below).

However, while both types of quizzes share a common set of features and work in very similar ways, there are some more advanced areas where the two diverge and do not share the same functionality. Please read Instructure’s complete feature comparison of the two quiz tools for more details.

We are aware that some Departments use quizzes reliant on features currently only available when using the Classic Quiz engine. As things stand, it will not be possible to use this functionality beyond June 2024. As such, teaching teams are advised to review all existing Classic Quizzes that fall into this scenario and to consider how assessments will proceed after June 2024 if these features are no longer supported in Canvas.

Am I using Classic or New Quizzes?

Please see the following guide which highlights the visual differences between Classic and New Quizzes.

How do I migrate a Quiz?

Canvas provides a built in migration tool to make the process of moving from Classic to New Quizzes relatively quick and simple. Before starting this process, we recommend that you first read the following Canvas guide for further advice on how to use this tool.

Anyone requiring assistance with migrating a quiz should, in the first instance, contact Canvas Tier 1 support via the Canvas Help menu.

Help and support

If your Department would like help reviewing and planning assessments, please contact the Centre for Innovation in Education by emailing digitaled@liverpool.ac.uk

Further updates and reminders about this change will be published at the start of each semester between now and the 30 June 2024.

Keywords: Canvas, Class and New Quizzes.