By: Monica Gaertner, Product Manager
We are excited to announce the release of the new quiz evaluation experience 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 previously.
Enabling 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. When this configuration variable is enabled, users will find the option to enable or disable the new quiz 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.
Getting 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: Learners 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
- Question Pools with the above question types
Instructors will encounter the following notice when evaluating a quiz that contains an unsupported Question Type:
Figure: Users are prompted to return to the Classic quiz evaluation experience if a Question Type is not supported by the new quiz evaluation experience.
Users have the option to switch back to Classic mode to evaluate question types that are not yet supported in the new quiz evaluation experience.
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.
