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Well....... just thought I'd mention that the LE version is ...."old" ... designed in the MS(tm) WinXP(tm) era.
And that is OK!! MS(tm) is giving the gentle user "a taste" of what can be done with the whole application (paid for).
What was posted about what needs to be done to get a functional, printable, exam is correct but it will "take some fiddling" as it were.
This whole thread really should possibly spark a more general discussion about whether Canvas needs to "be all things to all people".
There is an old adage in the world of Linux that is something like this: "one job one app" or "one need one app".
There is nothing wrong with that approach.
The only thing "wrong with it" is that..... "people" always "want more" and.....to make MONEY...the developers always have to "provide more".
And sometimes that leads to destruction because the weight of all the "top hamper" becomes unwieldy.
There are a LOT ....i mean..........a LOT of proprietary and non-proprietary "test generators" running around in the world of software ....
and a LOT of the FREE as in "free beer" software really is first rate and some of it is....not so much....
The really GOOD software that does not have a "bunker mentality" and tries to FORCE people to use it and ONLY it... whether it be commercial or FOSS really is.......good........
AND.....if one thinks about it....
think of the lowly "pencil".... a pencil is a pencil is a pencil.......but we have BAJILLION of different shapes, colours, sizes, implementations, etc...
but a pencil is a pencil...
and the same for a "test generator".
The ONLY REAL REASON.....to have a "keep the buyer in MY STABLE" is because of a particular implementation of deploying the "test bank" which is provide by...guess who.......the book publishers.
I............PERSONALLY............have a "book" that..........was published in the late fifties.....
Oh my gaawwly.......fifties........WHY IS HE EVEN MENTIONING that piece of DECAYED, STOOPID., USELESS piece of drek!!??
One reason and only one reason.
WHEN IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT............
"the parts of the cell are the parts of the cell"....at the high school level or the entering "terminal" biology class. The nucleus is the nucleus and that is that for those students.
The "noun" is a person, place or thing........although maybe not nowadays....but anyway............
BASIC CLASSES have rather definable information.
So............ this BIG LONG POST DEVOLVES TO....
A).......JUST WHO............actually USES Canvas for more than grade keeping, posting syllabi, etc. ?
i) a person who uses a "provided test bank" as required by the department
ii) a person who "makes up tests to suit the class"
It does not really matter which ....
If one looks at in a cold and calculating manner.
A) the teacher has to "make a test".
B) the teacher has one of two choices
i) use a provided test bank
ii) make it up whole cloth or using a test bank to provide the basis of the test.
B) The teacher wants to NOT MAKE IT AGAIN....if possible...in other words.........save the test for next semester.
Does it matter whether the test is "made in Canvas" or "in a test generator" in terms of doing either of those with the caveat that a bureaucrat above the teacher says.......DO THIS OR FEEL MY WRATH!! ?
No.
So......to finish this off....
Would it be worth discussion to have a discussion about......hmmm that's kind of like Snoopy skating around on the ice covered pond! 
Would it be worth discussion to:
a) have EACH AND EVERY stakeholder here at Canvas NOW and IN THE FUTURE .....to provide:
a) the name of their available test generating programs ( proprietary and non-proprietary) AND the "export" file type.
b) that "Canvas" provide a HARD LINK to the LISTING of the aforementioned test generators and the exports thereof.
c) and that the Canvas devs then concentrate on the programming to IMPORT the said exam file types FLAWLESSLY.........as in FLAWlessly....
d) or, given that proprietary software sometimes makes it IMPOSSIBLE to "export / import" "completely"....that the developers then CLEARLY STATE that........maybe...."you can make a multiple choice and a matching but you cannot include an image".
Dunno...........this is all just a suggestion.
Of little worth.
And, as always, if anyone wishes to comment on my REALLY, REALLY LOOOONNNNGGGG post, please so do.
james sheldon
Here is another option I stumbled upon, posted by @chadscott : Print Canvas Quizzes UserScript
I had to install Tampermonkey (new to me) from the Chrome Web Store, click the link to the userscript, install, and then open and preview a quiz. Printed great! It avoids the "Save as PDF" problem where questions are cut by a page break.
Thank You 
There is also this one from G Petruzella. Here are my instructor instructions.
Printing an Exam
Adapted from Printable Quizzes code-snippet
This section documents a fully-deployable end-user solution for anybody to test, tweak, and use to produce a plain-vanilla HTML version of a Canvas Quiz, which is printer-friendly from a browser. You can print as a PDF or copy the text and paste or paste without formatting into a document. This code can be deployed by any Canvas user on their own, but as a home-grown code, the author make no warranties. When Canvas implements printing, this can be retired.
Basically a printable version of the quiz is created as an HTML page. I printed directly from that page as a PDF and it looks like this:
Knowing that you might want to adjust things, I also copied the page and pasted it into a google doc and did no further format fixing, which looked like this
I also pasted it into a google doc with the formatting wiped which looked like this:
How do I deploy and use the code?
- Copy the code below.
- In your browser, create a new bookmark. (In Safari, you'll have to create the bookmark from some random website, then go back and "Edit Address".)
- In the "Location" or "URL" field, paste the code, then save the bookmark.
- Navigate to the Quiz, and click the "Preview" button.
- Once you're previewing the Quiz, click your bookmark, and watch the magic happen.
The code.
javascript:(function printQuiz(){
var zed = document.querySelector("#submit_quiz_form").outerHTML;
var zed = document.querySelector(".quiz-header").outerHTML + zed;
var zed = zed.replace(/Links to an external site\./gim , "");
var zed = zed.replace(/aria-level=\"2\">/gim , "aria-level=\"2\"><br />");
var zed = zed.replace(/class=\"screenreader-only\"|class=\"form-actions\"|class=\"accessibility-warning screenreader-only\"|class=\"alert\"/gim , "hidden=\"hidden\"");
var dt = new Date(); var dd = dt.getDate(); var mm = dt.getMonth()+1; var yy = dt.getFullYear();
var myWindow = window.open();
myWindow.document.write("<p>Printer-friendly Quiz generated: " + mm + "/" + dd + "/" + yy + "</p>" + zed);
})();
Here's a 1-minute video demo.
Well, beggars can't be choosers. 
Stunning quality of work, though. Thanks for sharing!
Peter Flickinger, the Chrome extension did not work for me, and I'm jealous of y'all who got results!
I installed the Chrome extension on up-to-date versions of Chrome on Mac and PC.
- open a published, not-expired exam, go to Preview mode
- click the "Print this Quiz" button in the URL/extensions bar
- nothing happens – no message, no screen change, no error.
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