At the moment there are two different quiz engines available in Canvas - Classic Quiz and New Quizzes. Classic Quiz is a fully functional, reliable option but does not get a lot of attention from developers. New Quizzes is in active development but can already deliver many key features and new question types.

In most cases both quiz engines will do the job but you can find a short summary of key differences below as well as a more detailed comparison document from the developers here.

Warning!

The quiz tools in Canvas are mainly for practice and other non exam-assignments. For proper e-exams you should use Inspera, as it offers better security, exam sign ups, support for anonymization in Ladok and other things.

Classic Quiz

Is well tested
No new features or improvements
CSV export of student and question statistics/analysis available
Fewer question types than New Quiz
Exercise quizzes available (does not appear in the Gradebook)
Surveys supported
Import and export with QTI 1.2
Easily converted to New Quiz

New Quizzes

In active development
Has more question types than Classic Quiz
More options for "Fill in the Blanks"-questions than Classic Quiz
Import of questions with QTI 2.x (partial support)
No export for questions available
Swedish translation is somewhat lacking
New user interface
Item/Question banks can be shared with any teacher