How to Preview Quizzes

Previewing quizzes in Canvas allows you to review how students will experience the quiz before it is published. Whether you’re creating a new quiz or working with migrated content, you can easily view and test the quiz as a student preview, ensuring everything functions as intended. Below are the steps to preview quizzes in Canvas for both new and migrated quizzes.

  • From the homepage of your migrated content select ‘Quizzes’.
Screen shot showing Homepage in Canvas with Quizzes highlighted.
  • There is the option to view/edit the migrated quiz from your previous Blackboard unit, or there is the option at the top, to build a new quiz by selecting ‘+Quiz’.
Screenshot of a migrated canvas space showing a migrated quiz in the course highlighted.
  • To preview the migrated quiz, select it, scroll to the bottom of the next page, select ‘build’. To then view the quiz in student preview, select ‘preview’, from the top-right.
Screenshot of a migrated canvas space showing preview highlighted.
  • You can ‘Submit’ or ‘Exit preview’ without saving the data.
Screenshot of a migrated canvas space showing both submit and exit preview highlighted.
  • After you have finished building your quiz, select ‘Done’, from the bottom of the page.
Screenshot of a newly built quiz, with Done, highlighted.
  • At the top of the page, select ‘Preview’.
Screenshot showing preview highlighted on a newly built quiz.
  • This will give you the opportunity to view the quiz as a student would, you can ‘Submit’ the quiz and ‘Exit Preview’ from here.
Screenshot with exit preview highlighted.

There is also the option to preview the whole course in student preview.