Instructor Documentation (Higher Ed)

Generate quiz questions using D2L Lumi Quiz

Use D2L Lumi Quiz to generate questions for your Question Library and add these questions into your course's quizzes. For Multiple Choice, True/False, and Multi-Select items, you can optionally select Include feedback to add AI-generated feedback to the question and answers.

You can generate quiz questions from free text or from supported Content topics.

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Note: The following content types are supported:

Pages
Assignment topics (source drawn from instruction field)
Quiz topics (source drawn from description field)
Discussion topics (source drawn from description field)
Media Library topics (both audio and video are supported but must have existing transcripts in either English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, or Dutch)
Most file topics (.doc, .docx, .odt, .pdf, .ppt, .pps, .pptx, .ppsx, .odp, .xls, .xlsx, .rtf, .txt)

To generate quiz questions

In your course navbar, click Quizzes.
Click the Question Library tab.
On the Question Library page, click Generate Questions.

In the Generate Questions dialog, select

Number of Questions you want to generate.
Question Type

(Optional)<![CDATA[ ]]>Bloom's Taxonomy level that aligns with your assessment goals. If you prefer not to use Bloom’s Taxonomy, leave the field set to Select Level.

Note: The availability of Bloom’s Taxonomy levels varies by question type:

Create: Written Response and Short Answer question types.
Evaluate: Multiple Choice, Written Response, Short Answer, and Multi-Select question types.
Analyze: Multiple Choice, Written Response, Short Answer, and Multi-Select question types.
Apply: Multiple Choice, True or False, Written Response, Short Answer, and Multi-Select question types.
Understand: Multiple Choice, True or False, Written Response, Short Answer, and Multi-Select question types.
Remember: Multiple Choice, True or False, Written Response, Short Answer, and Multi-Select question types.

(Optional) Include feedback to include AI-generated feedback with the question text and answer options.
Note: Include feedback is available for the following question types:
Multiple Choice
True/False
• Multi-Select items
Question Source: Choose to generate questions from course activities or enter custom text (up to 15,000 characters).

Based on your selection, follow the corresponding steps:
- Course Activities:
  1. Click Select Course Activities.
  2. Select up to 5 course activities from the list. Icons show whether an activity is hidden or has release conditions. To view items that aren’t included, focus or hover on Unsupported activity types.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. To preview and edit the source text before summarization, click Edit the source text.
  5. If the selected activities have associated outcomes, they appear in the Outcomes section. Including these outcomes helps focus idea generation on assessing the intended outcomes. To remove an outcome from ideation, click X beside its name.
- Custom Text
  1. Enter text in the Source Text field
Click Generate.
Click Pending Review for the first quiz question to open the Review Question dialog.
(Optional) On the Review Question dialog, click Options and based on the question type you can:
1. Add or Remove feedback
2. Add Hint
3. Add Short Description
4. Add Custom Weights
5. Add Enumeration
6. Add Answer Key
7. Add Custom Response Box Size
8. Add Initial Text
After reviewing and editing a quiz question, select one of the following:
- Click Keep and Next to keep the current quiz question and review the next question.
- Click Discard and Next to delete the current quiz question and review the next question.
- Click Close This Question to return to the generated list of questions.
After reviewing the last quiz question, select one of the following:
- Click Keep and Finish to keep the current quiz question and return to the generated list of questions.
- Click Discard and Finish to delete the current quiz question and return to the generated list of questions.
- Click Close This Question to return to the generated list of questions.
In the Generated Questions dialog, click Save to Section. If you do not wish to use any of the questions, click Cancel and Discard.
Select Save to Current Section or Create New Section for your quiz questions.
The Create New Sectionoption, will allow you to select Align each question to outcomes used to focus question generation.
Click Save.

The questions will appear in your Question Library with icon indicators showing AI involvement. The spark icon indicates that the question was generated solely by AI, while the person with the spark icon signifies that the question was AI-generated and edited by a human. Learners do not see the AI origin information.
The Question Library showing five AI-generated questions