Evaluate quizzes using the Quizzes tool
If your quiz has questions that can be auto-graded in Brightspace, you do not have to evaluate those questions unless desired.
To evaluate quizzes
- On your course homepage, navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the drop-down menu beside the name of the quiz you want to evaluate.
- Select Grade.
Figure: Select Grade in the Actions drop-down menu.
- From the Grade Quiz page, select an attempt to open the quiz for grading.
- Under the Score of a quiz question, enter a new point value and select Update to save.
 | Note: If you have point deduction enabled, you can also enter a negative value in the Score field. For example, if a question is graded out of 1 point, and you want to deduct 25% from that point because the answer submitted is incorrect, enter -0.25. Note that when deducting percentages from point values, the final attempt grade for the quiz will not go below 0. For more information about point deduction, refer to the Create a quiz with point deduction section of the Create and configure a quiz topic. |
Turn on the new quiz evaluation experience
You have the option to turn on a new quiz evaluation experience when you are grading quiz attempts from the Quizzes tool.
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Important: Your administrator must enable the new quiz evaluation experience configuration variable for you to have the option to turn this feature on or off. Contact your administrator for details and refer to the Activities configuration variables topic for more details.
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To turn on the new quiz evaluation experience
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- From the Manage Quizzes tab, locate a quiz that you want to evaluate.
- Click Actions (arrow icon) and select Grade.
- From the Grade Quiz page, click a quiz Attempt to open and evaluate it.
- Click the arrow at the top of the page to reveal the A new quiz evaluation experience is available! message.
Figure: Click the arrow located at the top of the page.
- Click Turn it on.
Figure: Review the A new quiz evaluation experience is available! message and click Turn it on.
The new quiz evaluation experience is on in your instance. You can turn off this experience at any time and provide feedback as to why you chose to turn it off.
Evaluate a quiz with a rubric attached to a written response question
In the new quiz evaluation experience, you can attach a rubric to written response (long answer) questions on a quiz. If you have opted in to the new quiz evaluation experience, you can attach a rubric to written response (long answer) questions on a quiz. You can turn on or turn off the new quiz experience from the quiz page you are grading.
Figure: Click the down arrow on the top right of the page to expand the dialog used to turn on or turn off the new quiz evaluation experience.
Subsequently, within the quiz, you can use the rubric to grade the written response quiz questions. The rubric appears below the answer or you can click Pop Out to open the response in a separate dialog, enabling you to view the rubric and the written response in separate windows.
Figure: You can click Pop Out to view the response submission in a separate window or open the rubric below the submission in the same window.
Figure: The rubric appears in the quiz window for the written response question.
Visual tour of the new quiz evaluation experience
The new quiz evaluation experience presents you with a two-panel view to easily enter a quiz question Score and Feedback on one side and review the overall Attempt Grade and Attempt Feedback on the other side.
Figure: Review the parts of the new quiz evaluation experience.
- Click the drop-down menu to choose the quiz attempt to evaluate or select Completion Summary.
- Click Filterto view quiz questions that are still Pending Evaluation or those that are Retaken questions only.
- Click the arrows to move to the next User quiz evaluation.
- Enter a Score and Feedback for a specific quiz question in the attempt.
- Enter an Attempt Grade and Attempt Feedback.
- Access quiz attempt options including:
- Edit Quiz: Make updates and changes to the quiz.
- Preview Quiz: Review the quiz as a student would view it.
- Reset Evaluation: Discard any changes made in evaluating the quiz attempt. Question scores are reset to the system auto-evaluation.
- Quizzes Event Log: Review a list of all actions taken by the user during the quiz attempt.
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Important: The new quiz evaluation experience supports displaying the following quiz question types when evaluating quiz attempts:
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Multiple Choice
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Written Response
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True or False
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Short Answer
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Fill in the Blank
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Multi-Select
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Question Pools
All other question types offer you the choice to Switch back to Classic mode to evaluate. These include:
- Matching
- Arithmetic
- Significant Figures
- Multi Short Answer
- Ordering
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Video: New Quiz Evaluation Experience