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Custom responses
How do I create custom responses to right/wrong answers in a quiz? Alternatively, how to I create customized responses for a pass/fail result on a quiz?
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Inline Feedback Problem
This is a bit urgent. I have an instructor whose students are receiving an error when trying to read the instructor's annotations on Dropbox assignments. When I impersonate the student, and attempt to read the inline feedback for the assignment titled Final Reflection Paper, I get the following error: "Something went wrong. Try again and if it continues to fail, download document to view" Downloading the document does not allow the student to see the inline feedback, either. This seems to be happening across many courses.
Grade extract, exclude certain subjects
For our grade export we have one subject that is being managed through another process. Is there a way in the selection file to exclude this subject code?
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Is there a way to "copy a component" (within a course) as a stand alone file?
Irat Trat quizzes
There's a popular kind of teaching called Team-Based Learning (TBL) which includes flipping the classroom and doing quizzes called RATs as soon as students walk in the door each class. RAT = Readiness Assessment Test.
In TBL, the students first do the individual RAT (iRAT), typically a 10-question multiple choice quiz on the readings.
Then they get together in their study teams (4-5 students) and do the same quiz as a team RAT (tRAT). In a physical classroom, you use a lottery-style scratch card, where you have to scratch off A, B, C, D or each question to find the spot with the star under it (the right answer). If you reveal the star with the first scratch, you get full points (10). If it takes two scratches, you get 6 points, and if three scratches, then 3 points, and if all four scratches, 0 points.
When I've wanted to avoid using paper and scratch cards, I've built these RATs as Brightspace Quizzes. The iRAT is a normal quiz. The tRAT is a quiz that allows repeated attempts and shows students which answers are incorrect. It only shows up after the iRAT is done. Students have to repeat the tRAT quiz until they get 100%.
I then have to look at the various attempts to calculate how many points they got. E.g., if it took 3 attempts to get question 4 correct, they only get 3 points for question 4.
It'd be great if Brightspace could support these tRAT style quizzes so that I don't have to look at the attempts myself and manually calculate things. Instead, Brightspace could emulate the scratch card.
This assumes that the quiz would be a group assignment, and that students on a team would be gathered around a single computer. If you really wanted to do it right, you could support students at different locations who are synchronously taking the tRAT by having them all start the tRAT and then they see how they're progressing, just like you see each other's cursors in a Google Doc.
Team-based learning is a big deal and at my university there's a community of faculty who all do it.
Thank you for your consideration.
Re: Release Notes Updates
January 2024/20.24.1 Preview Release Notes are now live and ready for review! 🔍️
Please note, this is only a preview for the upcoming Brightspace version, which we will begin to roll out on 4 January 2024. All features described are subject to change before then.


