How do I preview a quiz in New Quizzes?

You can preview a quiz in New Quizzes. Quiz Preview allows you to preview and test quiz questions and settings from a student's perspective. While previewing a quiz, you can also submit the quiz and view the student results page.

Learn how to create a quiz in New Quizzes.

Note: Quiz Preview does not support displaying student access codes, IP address filtering, and multiple attempts.

Open Quizzes

Open Quizzes

In Course Navigation, click the Quizzes link.

Note: You can also access quizzes from the Assignments page.

Open Build Page

To preview a quiz, find the quiz you want to open [1].

To open New Quizzes from an existing quiz, click the Options icon [2] and then click the Build link [3].

Preview Quiz

To preview the quiz, click the Preview button.

View Error Message

View Error Message

If you are currently editing the quiz, you cannot open Quiz Preview.

View Quiz Preview

When previewing a quiz, the quiz displays a colored Preview border [1]. You can enter answer to any question type [2].

The preview displays most settings, including calculators, timer, question shuffling, and one question at a time. Quiz Preview does not support displaying student access codes, IP address filtering, and multiple attempts.

Submit Quiz

Submit Quiz

To submit the quiz, click the Submit button [1].

To exit the quiz and return to the area in Canvas where the quiz was opened, click the Return button [2].

View Results Page

If you submit a quiz while in preview mode, Quiz Preview will open to the results page. The items and points displayed in the results page corresponds to the quiz's settings to restrict student result view.

Exit Preview

To exit Quiz Preview, click the Close icon.