It's time to move to New Quizzes in Canvas!
Canvas is retiring the Classic Quizzes engine, and New Quizzes will replace it for the 2027–2028 academic year. To ensure a smooth transition and prevent disruptions to your courses, all instructors are required to migrate their existing quizzes and build any new assessments using New Quizzes.
Moving to New Quizzes unlocks several advanced features not available in Classic Quizzes, including:
- New question types, including Stimulus and Ordering questions.
- Course level accommodations that are set once then automatically applied to all quizzes in a course.
- Attempt rules, requiring a waiting period between multiple attempts or allowing students to build on their last submitted attempt.
Because New Quizzes operates as an LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) application integrated into Canvas, you will notice a few workflow differences compared to the legacy interface. However, core functionalities remain intact alongside the new capabilities.
We strongly recommend reviewing the Feature Comparison to explore these interface updates and begin transitioning your course content today.
New Year, New Quizzes Series
Ring in 2026 by revamping your Canvas quizzes! Make a resolution to transform one of your existing Classic Quizzes into a New Quiz through a series of guided workshops. Each session consists of 15-20 minutes of training on a topic, with 10-15 minutes of hands-on time to try things yourself.
- Migration Magic: Learn about migration options for bringing existing Canvas quizzes into New Quizzes.
- Start from Scratch: Create your first New Quizzes quiz and add your first questions.
- Question Exploration: Try out various question types, including several brand-new options.
- Settings, Settings, Settings: From feedback to accommodations, New Quizzes lets you customize all sorts of settings.
- Item Bank Organization: Keep your questions organized and easily share with others using Item Banks.
Transition Timeline
The transition to New Quizzes is being rolled out in phases to give you ample time to migrate your content and test your assessments before Classic Quizzes is retired. Below is the official CWRU timeline for the migration to New Quizzes.
Please note: While Instructure (Canvas) has not yet set a final vendor-level end-of-life date for Classic Quizzes, CWRU’s institutional timeline ensures our campus completes the transition successfully. If Instructure makes updates that affect our plan, this page will be updated, and announcements will be shared via Canvas and The Daily.
This was the time to delve into New Quizzes and take a look at the new tools and interface. New things to explore included the quiz creation process, the Classic-to-New Quizzes Migration tool, and new question types.
During this exploration window, Instructure continued to release updates and features for New Quizzes.
Now is the time to begin transitioning your content to New Quizzes. To guide you through this required change, we have compiled comprehensive resources on migrating existing assessments, building new quizzes from scratch, and key considerations to review before making the switch.
If our resources aren't enough, if you would like to request a group training session, or if you have a specific use case that you're not sure will translate to New Quizzes, please let us know by emailing canvashelp@case.edu.
During this phase, you will no longer be able to create Classic Quizzes; all quizzes must be created using New Quizzes. Classic Quizzes can be still be taken by students and can be edited by instructors. Any Classic Quizzes at this point should be migrated to New Quizzes as soon as possible.
At this point, Classic Quizzes will no longer be available as an option in Canvas, and will be completely replaced by New Quizzes. After this point, until a yet-to-be-determined point in the future, Classic Quizzes will be retained in a database for archival purposes only.
Considerations & Limitations
Before getting started with New Quizzes, it is strongly recommended to review the current considerations for using New Quizzes. The considerations page discusses current limitations of New Quizzes and intended changes that users can expect to see in the upcoming months.