Make informed decisions about your institution's quizzing solution with this feature comparison of Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes. For confirmed or in-discovery items, development timelines are included but are subject to change.
✔️ means the feature is supported
✖️ means the feature is not planned or in consideration at this time
% means a partial solution is available
* - means an alternative process and/or solution is available
Supported Canvas Workflows
| Workflow | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Mastery Paths | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Mastery Paths breakdown results | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| Course Copy | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Commons Import | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Commons Export | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| QTI Import | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Quiz Exports (content and files) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Common Cartridge | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Duplicate Quiz from Quizzes page | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Blueprint Courses - Initial Sync | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Blueprint Courses - Subsequent Sync | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Blueprint Courses - Question/Question Banks | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Blueprint Courses - Locking | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Supported in *beta.instructure.com | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Supported in *test.instructure.com | ✔️ | ✖️ |
| Loss of Connectivity message when relevant | ✔️ | % |
| Roles permission support - Designer | ✔️ | Exploring |
| Roles permission support - Observer | ✔️ | Exploring |
| Roles permission support - TA | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Ability to enable at sub-account/course levels | N/A | ✔️ |
| Question/Item Banks - Shared with course | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Question/Item Banks - Shared with multiple courses | ✔️* | ✔️ |
| Question/Item Banks - Shared with account | ✔️* | ✔️ |
| Question/Item Banks - Shared with user | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Features
| Feature | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Printing Quizzes - Print Student to Take | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Printing Quizzes - Print as Student Answered | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Printing Quizzes - Print as Sample Answer Key | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Bulk Download File Submissions | ✔️ | Planned: 2025-H2 |
| Import Content Into Individual Quiz | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Create Practice Quiz | ✔️ | ✔️* |
| Create Ungraded Quiz | ✔️ | ✔️* |
| Create Survey | ✔️ | Planned: 2025-H2 |
| Preview Quiz (student view) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| To-do List for Instructor | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| To-do List for Student | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Calendar for Student | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| LockDown browser support | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Customize Question Feedback | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Leave/Resume Quiz | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Bookmark Banks | ✔️ | |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Copy/Move Banked Questions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Delete Banks | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - View Only Access | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Randomize Bank Questions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Share Item Banks | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Import Item Bank Content | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Tag Banked Items with Metadata | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Search Content within an Item Bank | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Search for an Item Bank | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Manage Question/Item Banks - Filter/Sort Item Bank | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Regrade Questions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Reorder Questions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Record audio and video | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Content Selector Sidebar | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Accessibility Checker | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Apps and LTI tools | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - HTML Editor | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Insert media iframe | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| New Rich Content Editor - Right-to-left/left-to-right formatting buttons | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Item/Question Types
| Item/Question Type | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Categorization | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Essay | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Fill in the Blank | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Fill in Multiple Blanks | ✔️ | ✔️* |
| File Upload | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Formula | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multiple Answer | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multiple Choice | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multiple Dropdown | ✔️ | ✔️* |
| Matching | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Numeric | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Stimulus/Passage | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Text (No Question) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| True/False | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Ordering | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Hot Spot | ✖️ | ✔️ |
Settings
| Setting | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Allow Multiple Attempts (All Students) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Allow Multiple Attempts (Individual Student) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Require Waiting Period Between Attempts | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Display One Question at Time | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Require Access Code | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Set Time Limit | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Shuffle Questions Globally | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Shuffle Answers Globally | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Hide Student Responses | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Hide Student Responses Available Window | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Filter IP Addresses | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Filter IP Addresses by Named Location | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Assign to Individual Student | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Assign to Section | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Set Available Dates | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Shuffle Answers per Question | ✖️ | ✔️ |
Grading and Moderation
| Feature | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the whole course) | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Add Extra Time (Individual Student, for the assessment) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Add Extra Attempts (Individual Student, for the whole course) | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Add Extra Attempts (Individual Student, for the assessment) | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| View Moderation Page | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Manually Submit Attempts | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| View Quiz Log | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| View Student Results | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Automatic grading of questions | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Add Fudge Points | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Partial Points/Credit - Multiple Answer | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Partial Points/Credit - Fill in the Blank | ✔️ | |
| Partial Points/Credit - Multiple Choice | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Partial Points/Credit - Matching | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Partial Points/Credit - Ordering | ✖️ | |
| Partial Points/Credit - Categorization | ✖️ | |
| SpeedGrader Grade One Question at a Time | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Learning Mastery Gradebook | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Reporting and Analysis
| Feature | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Item Analysis | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Summary Statistics | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Outcome Analysis | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Student Analysis | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| CSV Download | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Canvas Data Portal access | ✔️ | Planned: 2026-H1 |
Interoperability
| Feature | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Third Party Integrations - Proctoring | ✔️ | ✔️* |
| Quiz Management API | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Quiz Submission API | ✔️ | Planned: 2025-Q2 |
| Question/Item Bank API | ✔️ | Planned: 2025-H2 |
| Reporting API | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Moderation API | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Outcomes
| Outcome | Classic Quizzes | New Quizzes |
| Rubric Alignments | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Individual Item Alignments | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Quiz (Overall) Alignments | ✖️ | ✔️ |
| Question Bank Alignment | ✔️ | |
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