We were recently informed that Canvas is removing the older, course associated, question banks in the near future and replacing them with new instructor associated item banks. I really like this as it allows me to access questions across my courses, but the move is a bit of a nightmare.

As instructors, it appears the that the only way to make the move from one system to the other is to personally move all of our questions ourselves by going through a painstaking process of creating old quizzes using the question banks, exporting these quizzes, then creating a new quiz using new question types and importing the exported quiz into each new quiz! After undergoing this insane process, we can then apparently manage and access the questions through the item banks moving forward. I am curious why this move cannot be simpler such as importing question banks like other course content (definitely the preferred method) or handled automatically by Canvas using a simple transfer script for all instructor questions banks.

However, what I am trying to solve here involves organizing the item banks better than what it appears I can do. I currently have all of my questions grouped in independent course question banks by their associated curriculum objective. Since I teach four different preps and each contains several units with several objectives, this means I have well over 100 different question banks across the courses I teach. That's a lot of questions banks to sort though when creating quizzes using items related to a single course objective!

For example, I want to do is:

1. Create a group named Course 1
2. Create a subgroup named Unit 1
3. Place the Objective 1.01 item bank inside of these folders

This would make finding questions considerably easier than scrolling through long lists of independent item banks. As I said, I like having the item banks associated with the instructor rather than the course, but this does make for an organizational nightmare.

Is there any way to do something like this as I cannot find any information on how to do so? If not, could an organizational structure be considered as a future addition to Canvas? I used to use Schoology before our district forced us use Canvas and there are a lot of features they offered for organizing content that I really miss (along with a more modern looking interface). Canvas could learn a lot from Schoology!