Steps

Recognize that Canvas has two separate quiz engines with separate endpoints: the classic Quizzes API (`/api/v1/courses/:course_id/quizzes`) and the New Quizzes API (`/api/quiz/v1/courses/:course_id/quizzes`), which are not interchangeable.
Note that a New Quizzes assignment still appears as a normal Canvas assignment via the Assignments API, but quiz-specific settings (timing, attempts, result-view controls) only surface through the New Quizzes API's `quiz_settings` object.
Call `GET /api/quiz/v1/courses/:course_id/quizzes/:assignment_id` using the assignment's ID; a 404 there generally means the assignment is a classic quiz rather than a New Quiz.
Create or update a New Quiz with `POST`/`PATCH /api/quiz/v1/courses/:course_id/quizzes`, sending a `quiz[...]` parameter tree that includes `quiz_settings`, `multiple_attempts`, and `result_view_settings` as needed.
For question-level content inside a New Quiz, use the separate New Quiz Items API — the New Quizzes API itself only manages quiz-level metadata.

Known gotchas

The two APIs live under different base paths and different auth scopes — a token scoped only for classic Quizzes will fail against `/api/quiz/v1/...` endpoints.
Which engine a given course or assignment uses can vary by account/course even within the same Canvas instance during a rolling migration, so check via the New Quizzes endpoint rather than assuming based on account settings alone.

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Determine whether a Canvas quiz uses the New Quizzes API instead of the classic Quizzes API before reading or writing its settings

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