Download quiz as Word or PDF

[JarredValls]

In secondary schools, some students prefer printed  assessments. In fact, it's an accommodation for some. And sometimes Canvas or the school Wi-Fi is down, so the students aren't able to access assessments online. For these reasons, and also to save assessments if I ever lose access to Canvas, it would be nice to be able to download quizzes in PDF or Word format. I don't see an option for that currently. Copying and pasting the whole thing into Word takes FOREVER because you have to change all the formatting to get it to fit into a reasonable number of pages. ExamView had this option, and it was very useful.

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi Jarred,

The New Quizzes tool includes an option to print both a blank quiz and a quiz "key" with the answers included.  See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-print-a-quiz-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/478615 

[mzimmerman · Accepted solution]

Hi Jarred,

The New Quizzes tool includes an option to print both a blank quiz and a quiz "key" with the answers included.  See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-print-a-quiz-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/478615 

[JEFFPFISTER]

That isn't good enough.  The PDF version saves entire pages as an image file.  We need to download as a word document for translation.  Canvas new quizzes, for reasons unknown, do not translate or have no translation function in new quizzes.

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@JarredValls 

It depends on the quiz engine you are using.  as stated by @mzimmerman the option to print the quiz exists in new quizzes.

if you are using classic quizzes, then there is a way to print it out using a javascript add on as explained in the following:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/Print-Canvas-Quizzes-UserScript/ba-p/2430...

I have this script installed and it works really good.  I have modified it a little so that I can print out student submissions for record keeping.

forgot about the following which may work as well  - this is a chrome extension:

Canvas Quiz Printer - Chrome Web Store 

[SandraWade]

I downloaded the Canvas Quiz Printer extension that you recommended, and it was perfect.

[JarredValls]

Both of these are good suggestions, but both violate the technology policy of my district. So they won't work for me. And likely this is true for others as well. Which is why we need a function inside Canvas to do this.

[Ron_Bowman]

@JarredValls - Well I guess that policy makes sense to protect the school system computer network from all the attack vectors out there.  The IT department does not want to have to deal with any possible attack caused by a malicious add on that a teacher uses.

Unfortunately, then as you stated, it needs to be in Canvas.  

Because you mentioned both of my solutions, I am assuming that you are using classic quizzes.  

As @mzimmerman mentioned the print capability is built into new quizzes now.  So you should look into new quizzes to see if that is what you want/need.

Good Luck