Canvas: How to Publish Your Exam from Respondus to Canvas

Tip: If you have run issues in connecting or adding a server, you should reinstall the Respondus software. Click this Respondus software link to download the software for Windows only.

Importance: After installing the software, you must update the software immediately.

1. Open the Respondus program.
2. At the “Start” tab, under the “Current Personality,” select Canvas.
3. Click Open on the main screen.
4. Select your Respondus file and then click Open.  If your Respondus file is for Canvas personality, go to the Step 7 directly.
5. If your Respondus file is the Blackboard personality, it asks to convert a file created in a different learning management system, click OK.
6. It shows if the conversion is successful. It also asks to select Replace Current File or Save As New File.
7. The exam questions will open in the “Edit” tab.
8. Select the Preview & Publish
9. In the “Preview + Publish” tab, click Publish. Then, click Publish Wizard.
   Note: We recommend clicking on Preview to preview the quiz questions before publishing.
10. In the “Type of Publish” section, select Publish to single course (by default.)
11. In the “Canvas Server” section, choose an existing server, and click Next.  Then go to the step 27 directly.
    Note:  If you have not setup a new Canvas server connection.  You will do this setup in steps 12-26.

Add New Server Steps: 12-26

12. Next to the Canvas Server and choose add new server.
13. In the “Add New Server Settings” window, select “Yes, check for preconfigured server settings” option.
14. Select Next.
15. Enter a name to describe this server.
16. Enter your login information using your Office 365 sign-in for Canvas. Select “Save my Username and Password on this computer” if this is not the shared computer.
17. Make sure the “Run connection test” is selected.
18. Click Next.
19. A message “Log into your learning system using the browser window” is shown, click OK.
20. Enter your UH office 365 sign in.
21. Do UH Duo Authentication.
22. Select Authorize button to allow Respondus to access your account.
23. A message “When the login process is complete” is shown, click OK.
24. When the server connection test successfully, click Next.
25. A message “The new server has been added” is shown, click Finish.  It returns to the Publish Wizard.
26. In the “Publish Wizard” page, select Publish to single course or Batch Publish to multiple courses.  Then click Next.  Then go to step 29 directly.

Publish Wizard

27. Enter your UH office 365 sign in.
28. Do Duo authentication.
29. In the “Publish Wizard” page:
    a) Select assessment type– Graded Quiz or Question Bank.
    b) Specify Server action and item name.
    c) Select Other options. (Not required.)
    d) Click Next.
30. Choose the course you are adding the Quiz to.
    Note: Choose the course folder only. Do not click on the name of a particular quiz in that course.
31. Click Next.
32. Wait until you see the line “Publish Completed Successfully”, and then click Finished.