By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager
The new Quiz Evaluation experience was released in the September 2024/20.24.9 release of Brightspace. The new experience provides an updated look and feel to your grading workflow with a focus on optimizing instructor productivity by making the quiz evaluation experience easier to use. The look and feel are consistent with the updated experiences for Assignments and Discussions that were released in previous years.
Enable the new quiz evaluation experience
The new evaluation experience is controlled by the d2l.Tools.Activities.CEQuizzesOptIn configuration variable, which can be enabled on the Instance, Org, or Org Unit level to give the most flexibility when rolling it out within your organization.
The config currently includes only ON (Opt-In) and OFF options. When this config is enabled as ON (Opt-In), users will find the option to enable or disable the new evaluation experience from the top pull down in the quiz evaluation workflow.
Figure: Click the arrow to view the message for enabling or disabling the new quiz evaluation experience.
Users can go back and forth between the two experiences. When turning off the new experience users are provided an option to provide feedback to D2L around why they are turning off the new experience. D2L is monitoring this feedback and will use it when making decisions regarding future improvements to the new quiz evaluation experience.
Updates in the April 2025/20.25.04 release
As of the April 2025/20.25.04 release the ON (Opt-In) option is the default for all clients and we will also include the ON option for clients who are ready to fully adopt the new evaluation experience.
There is also a user level configuration variable setting for the New Quiz Evaluation Experience: d2l.Tools.Activities.CEQuizzesUserOptIn ( User ) that contains four options:
- NEW (UNSET): User has not chosen yet and is being served new experience.
- LEGACY (UNSET): Default, user has not chosen yet and is being served legacy experience.
- NEW: User has chosen new experience.
- LEGACY: User has chosen legacy.
Note: With the April 2025 release, the NEW (UNSET) option is default for all users.
Get familiar with the new quiz evaluation experience
The look and feel of the new quiz evaluation experience is consistent with the Assignments and Discussions evaluation experience, making the experience familiar to users.
Figure: Overview of the new quiz evaluation experience.
1. The top left panel shows the name of the quiz, the name of the course, and the name of the learner. The Attempt drop-down allows you to select from multiple attempts (if the quiz allows for that) or a Completion Summary. You will also find a summary of the attempt details. The Filters drop-down allows you to filter Quiz Results to show questions that are Pending evaluation or Retaken questions only.
2. The Quiz Results section shows the quiz attempt details like the quiz questions and indications for the correct answer.
3. Use the top navigation to scroll between learners. The Attempt Grade is autocalculated with the option to manually override it. Additionally, you have the Attempt Feedback area to provide your feedback to learners.
Users will also notice that the view of the questions and answers within the new quiz evaluation experience are uplifted.
Figure: Users and instructors can see an uplifted interface when viewing their quiz questions.
Supported Question Types
The new quiz evaluation experience currently supports the following quiz Question Types:
- Multiple Choice
- Written Response
- True & False
- Short Answer
- Fill in the Blank
- Multi–Select
- Matching
- Ordering
- Multi Short Answer
- Arithmetic
- Significant Figures
We hope that you find the new quiz evaluation experience helpful in optimizing your grading workflow. Watch for future updates of exciting new features within the new quiz evaluation experience.
Planned updates
July 2025
The new Quiz Evaluation Experience will be the only experience available. The Opt-Out option will be removed, and clients will no longer have access to the classic/legacy evaluation experience.
