How can we generate a quiz report that may be printed and shared with students?

Question

One of our teachers would like to run a report that shows students their quiz mark and which questions they got wrong. He doesn’t always have access to a class set of Chromebooks, and our province has a personal device ban for students. Because of this, he’s hoping to print a quiz report, hand it out to students, and then review the assessment together on the classroom TV.

We’ve explored the CSV/Excel options under the Grades menu (both User and Attempts) as well as the Attempt Details report. However, these reports are quite verbose and include unchecked items that can be difficult for students to interpret. I’ve suggested using filters to narrow the information down, but even then the reports aren’t very student-friendly. We have also explored the options in Statistics but do not see a way to generate a report that includes the individual student score and question details.

Does anyone have suggestions for the easiest way for a teacher to print a report that shows the student’s overall score along with a simple view of how they did on each question?  Thank you!

Janet.O.779 · Answer

I looked at it briefly, and if

(a) you don't have a huge number of students and

(b) the quizzes aren't that long

… it might be do-able to simply:

1. open each attempt in Edge browser

2. press Ctrl+P to bring up the print dialogue

3. in the left panel select "Print on both sides"

4. click to expand "More settings" and select "Fit to printable area"

5. click "Print."

There's a lot of wasted space on the page(s), but at least the results are easily readable by students.

Chrome didn't have the same convenient "fit" option available, but you can eventually achieve the same result by determining the best scale percentage value and simply re-using that each time you print. I didn't test Firefox.

Alternatively, ask someone who is exceptional with spreadsheets if they can write a macro that will strip out all the unwanted stuff and prettify everything for public consumption, then run the macro on each file (but it's probably not worth the time investment required unless you have lots of students per class AND lengthy quizzes).

Raquel.B.1893 · Answer

Hi Tracy,

I can definitely understand the challenge here. When students don’t have access to devices, it becomes important to give them something clear and readable on paper, and the built‑in exports can feel too cluttered for that purpose.

One option that works well for situations like this is to use a custom results display on the quiz. This lets you control exactly what appears when you open a student’s attempt, so you can create a very clean layout that includes their overall score and their responses to each question.

Here’s the general approach teachers often use:

1. Create an additional results view for the quiz.

Within the quiz settings, add a view that shows the attempt grade and the questions with the learner’s responses. You can decide whether to show correct answers as well, depending on how you want to handle the review in class.

2. Open each student’s attempt from the grading page and print it.

Once the view is set, you can access the student’s attempt, and the page will display only the elements you chose. Most teachers find that this produces a much cleaner layout than any of the export files, and it prints very well as a one‑ or two‑page summary per student.

This isn’t a single‑click “report,” but it does give you a simple, readable printout that highlights exactly what you need the students to see, and it fits well when technology access is limited.

Let me know if you have any question.

Raquel