IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes | Feature Overview

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Release Timing: Available in Feature Preview on December 13, 2025 as a Feature Option
Regional Availability: Globally Supported
Customer Type: All Canvas customers
Available with: Canvas

Key Takeaway: IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes makes it faster for educators to create high-quality, standards-aligned multiple-choice questions in New Quizzes.

Assessment content creation can be one of the most time-consuming parts of instructional planning. Building strong items means starting from scratch, requires deep expertise in standards and curriculum alignment, and involves repeated revisions to ensure questions truly match lesson goals. Those hours add up quickly and pull educators away from higher-impact work with their students.

IgniteAI generates assessment questions in minutes vs. hours, saving educators time while ensuring each question accurately measures what students are expected to learn. It also makes it easy to refresh and update assessment items so they stay relevant, appropriately rigorous, and effective for evaluating comprehension and retention.

Administrative Highlights:

Enablement – "IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes” feature option
- "New Quizzes" feature option must also be enabled
Default Status – off by default
Configuration Availability – root account, sub account, and/or course level

Video Walkthrough:

https://productmarketing.instructuremedia.com/embed/727b6530-cad6-463c-8364-0a29eede48cd

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Release Notes - December 13, 2025

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User Guide: How do I use IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes?

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Comments

jdurancal

Is it planned for the Question Authoring functionality to be available directly from the item bank creation workflow?

We would like to know whether it will be possible to use this flow without having to create questions outside the item bank first.

Anna Lindsay

Hi there - great question! Yes, we plan to add a question authoring workflow at a future date. Currently, the questions are only supported currently when created within the quiz directly.

Chris_Hofer

Will there be more question types besides just “Multiple Choice”? I am testing this out in our “beta” environment, and it works pretty well. However, I only see that “Multiple Choice” question types can be created via this Feature Option.

Anna Lindsay

Hello Chris! Yes, the team is exploring other question types for future iterations.

rpourchon

Do you have any best pratices to share with us about the optional configurations wihtin the "More options" section?

I've done few tests but I don't see a lot of differences and impact on the generetad result while selecting the different options of "Depth of knowledge" and "Bloom's taxonomy". Are these options relevant only for specific cases, types of uploaded content or contexts? Thanks!

LolesGG

The performance of IgniteAI for item authoring in New Quizzes is quite good. As a suggested improvement, it would be beneficial to have a feature that allows newly created questions to be automatically linked to an item bank, rather than having to do it manually one by one.

JamesSekcienski

After the current trial period for various IgniteAI features is over, will this still be a free Canvas feature or will it be a paid add-on product?