Exam versions

[erica_wagner]

Is there a way in canvas to take an existing quiz and save it as a new quiz version so I can then go in and modify questions without actually creating a new exam from scratch?

I am asking this, because it is nice to have a different versions of a quiz (or especially a long unit exam with lots of questions) to give as a make up for a student who missed the exam time and date (and I do not want them to take the same exam everyone else saw already) or even to use in a subsequent semester of the same course.

With paper and pencil exams, it's easy to do this in word. Simply "save as" a new file name, then go in and edit the new version without changing the original. Viola, two versions of the same basic exam. I haven't discovered a way to do the same thing in canvas, and typing a new exam from scratch to create a different version is very time consuming.

I am not asking about creating a question bank and having an exam randomly draw questions from this, as this is a different process and not what I want to do for this purpose.

[scottdennis]

Hi Erica,

Right up until I got to the end of your question I was going to suggest you dump all your exam questions into a series of question banks or one big bank and then draw on it to create many individualized quizzes.  However, to answer your immediate question, there are ways that people duplicate or copy individual quizzes.  If you are using New Quizzes (as opposed to classic quizzes) you can simply choose to duplicate the quiz: