I created a quiz using the New Quizzes engine and now I get an error message stating, "There was an error generating the tool launch" when I try to share it to the Commons for a colleague to use it. Anybody know of a solution or a work around?
Update:Coming 2025Q1 (January release) NQ functionality includes the ability to share via Canvas Commons:
Original Post:Clearing up any confusion around this question:
For further updates, I'd stay tuned to the Product Blog (filter by New Quizzes) and New Quizzes Hub area.
Hey everyone! I just saw some new Release Notes for Commons, and it looks like the ability to share and import New Quizzes to/from Commons is coming!
Commons Release Notes (2025-01-18) - Instructure Community - 628757
Hi @kclark6 , thanks for your question.
If Commons isn't playing nice (it might be busy), then you could try the Copy To or Send To options with your colleague.
https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-18385-how-do-i-use-direct-share-to-copy-an-assignment-to-another-course
How do I use Direct Share to send an assignment to another instructor?
Or the Course Import Tool (which can be simplified to just a quiz) How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool?
Sing out if you need a hand.
Hello - this is occurring for my instructors as well with New Quizzes and Commons, and the "Copy To" or "Send To" options are generating blank quizzes on the receiving end. The copy will go through, and the New Quiz shell will be created in the other course, but no questions or instructions come through. The New Quiz is also not sharing to Commons.
Any word on if this functionality will be fixed or additional solutions other than the Course Import Tool? Thank you!
I had the same issue, so I reached out to Canvas. Turns out it is possible to share New Quizzes, you just need to initiate that share from the Assignments page rather than the Quizzes page.
Thanks @johnsone this might explain behavior my colleague is seeing at another campus where new quizzes I shared to them via sending a whole module that included new quizzes arrives with quizzes that the recipient faculty member cannot post.
"I have tried editing them but they would not let me post. I have 2 versions of 1 quiz that are sitting in the class, but I can't delete them, nor can the students see them. At the moment they are just "sitting there."
I will try sending the new quizzes individually from the Assignments page...
@johnsone One can indeed initiate the share on a New Quizzes from the Assignments page, and the item will appear to share. But on import to a different server the shared New Quiz will not import. I am trying to move materials from a Canvas instance on the Singapore server to the Oregon server, and the process fails. Courses can shared and moved through Commons, but one has to set sharing to Public. New Quizzes are not included in the course share. Individually moving New Quizzes from Assignments looks promising, but the resulting item in Commons cannot be imported into a course on the new server instance. New quizzes are long way from being ready to be released and no instructor should be encouraged to use them at this time. I concur with those who have elsewhere suggested that the New Quizzes effort should be shut down and work should be done on improving Classic Quizzes.
I unmarked the solution because New Quizzes cannot be shared through the Commons. Copy to... only works within a given instructor's courses, and Send to... is restricted to an institution. Neither accomplishes sharing to another institution via the Commons. Because New Quizzes are an external tool, they are local to an institutional instance, perhaps to a server. Attempts by me to move New Quizzes from a course in an institution on the Singapore server to an institution on the Oregon server have failed. And I am admin in both institutions. New Quizzes cannot be moved. They will appear to move, but in the new institution attempts to open the New Quiz throws an error.
If one is sharing between institutions, or colleagues at different institutions, then the sharing has to occur through the Commons. At least as far as I know. I stand to be corrected, but according to the roadmap (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructure-Roadmap/ct-p/instructure-roadmap) under Optimizing New Quizzes for Early Adopters, New Quizzes will be shareable to the Canvas Commons Q1 2024. If I am not mistaken, then sharing between institutions will have to wait until the sharing to the Commons feature lands in Q1 2024 - provided the feature remains on the projected schedule.
Our teachers are still experiencing an issue with the Share To feature and New Quizzes. Share To produces a blank copy on the receiving teacher's end, regardless of where it was shared from (Assignments, Modules, etc.). The way we were able to achieve success was to use Copy To, which means teachers must have a common sandbox course, copy the New Quiz into that sandbox, and then teachers in the shared sandbox can Copy To their own courses.
@kclark6 You can now share new quizzes to Commons: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Commons-Releases/Commons-Release-Notes-2025-01-18/ta-p/628757
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