Build quizzes using varying question types. Create quizzes that randomly select questions from a question pool or that shuffle the order of questions.
The Create a quiz page has a fully immersive page layout. This layout is consistent with other areas of Brightspace including Quizzes, Content, and Lessons, where you can create and configure a Quiz.
Access the New Quiz page
There are several different starting points to create quizzes.
To create a new quiz in the Classic Content Experience
- From your course navbar, click Content.
- Select the module where you want to create a quiz and click Upload/Create.
- Click New Quiz.
Figure: The New Quiz option on the Upload/Create menu.
The New Quiz is page open, and you can customize your quiz.
Video: Create a Quiz using the Classic Content experience
To create a quiz in the New Experience
- From your course homepage, navigate to Content.
Figure: Course homepage with the Content tool highlighted.
- In the Table of Contents, in your desired module, click Create New.
Figure: Table of Contents displaying the Create New option in a course module.
- On the What would you like to create? page, click Quiz.
Figure: The What would you like to create? page with the Quiz option highlighted.
To create a quiz from the Quizzes tool
- From your course navbar, click Quizzes.
- Click New Quiz.
Copy an existing quiz
You can quickly create new quizzes from existing quizzes using the Copy functionality available on the individual quiz drop-down menu. This feature copies all settings of an existing quiz in addition to its Special Access settings and aligned Learning Objectives.
To copy an existing quiz
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- From the drop-down menu of the quiz you want to copy, click Copy.
Figure: The Actions menu for a quiz showing the Copy option.
- The copied quiz opens in edit mode. Update the name, score, due date, instructions, and other settings of the copied quiz .
- Click Save.
Fill in quiz details
Once you have opened the New Quiz page, you must start by entering basic details for your quiz.
To fill in quiz details
- From the New Quiz page, enter a Name for the quiz.
Figure: The New Quiz page.
- For Grade Out Of, enter the number of points for the quiz.
- Select whether the quiz will be in the Grade Book by clicking the dropdown menu.
- Edit or Link to Existing: Choose to either create and link to a new grade item, or link to an existing grade item.
Note: You can also create grade items and categories from the Grades tool. Refer to Create and delete grade categories and items for more information.
- Add to Grade Book
- Enter the Due Date for your quiz.
- Enter a Description for your quiz.
Now you can add quiz questions to your quiz.
Create questions
Create a new quiz question
You can create and customize new quiz questions from the New Quiz page.
To create a new quiz question
- On the Create Quiz page, click Create New > New Question.
- Click the question type from the list and complete the question details.
Figure: The Create New menu provides options for the type of available questions you can create.
Note: Written response questions require you to manually grade responses.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Save and New to create another quiz question.
- Click Save to return to the Create Quiz page.
New quiz questions are added to your quiz.
Add existing quiz questions
You can also add existing quiz questions by uploading a file, browsing the quiz library, or importing from another learning repository.
To add existing quiz questions
- On the Create Quiz page, click Add Existing.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Upload a File to attach a file from your personal device. Then click Browse files and drag the appropriate file to the Upload a File window. Click Save.
- Select Browse Question Library to choose questions from previous quizzes. Select the checkbox beside the questions you want to add to your quiz. Then, click Import.
- Select Import from the Learning Repository to browse and choose resources to add to your quiz. Search for a repository or select one of the available categories. Click to select the questions you want to add. Then, click Save.
Figure: Add existing quiz questions from a file, Question Library, or Learning Repository.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Save and New to create another quiz question.
- Click Save to return to the Create Quiz page.
Existing quiz questions are added to your new quiz.
Edit quiz questions
You can edit quiz questions by choosing to edit a quiz or during the quiz creation process.
To edit quiz questions
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- Click the name of the quiz you want to change.
- In the Questions section, click the question you want to edit.
- In the dialog, edit your question by performing one or more of the following:
- To edit the question text, click inside the respective fields and write your change.
- If you want to edit the text format, click inside the field and click the Fullscreen option in the pop-up bar. Brightspace Editor opens in full with your question text. Click More Actions to trigger more editing options. Change the font size, format, add links, or use Insert Stuff to add more content.
- When you're done editing, click the Fullscreen button again (if applicable) and click Save in the dialog.
- Repeat steps 3-5 for other questions you want to edit.
- Click Save and Close.
You have edited quiz questions.
Understand date restrictions
Quiz restrictions allow instructors to set start dates, due dates, and end dates on their quizzes. The start date determines when a quiz becomes available to learners. The end date determines when a quiz becomes unavailable to learners. The due date specifies a time when a quiz is expected to be completed. A quiz is considered late if it is submitted after the due date is reached. If a quiz has an enforced time limit and the learner uses more than the allotted time, the quiz is marked as exceeded time limit.
Set up Availability Dates & Conditions
Set a time frame for when the quiz is available and create conditions for accessing the quiz.
To set availability and conditions
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Availability Dates & Conditions drop-down menu.
Figure: The Availability Dates & Conditions drop-down menu.
- Customize the following:
- Start Date: Specify the date when your quiz becomes available to learners.
- End Date: Specify the date when your quiz is no longer available.
- Add availability dates to Calendar: Select the checkbox to add quiz availability dates to your course Calendar. Learners will see the quiz availability dates in their Calendar. Calendar events are generated as the following:
- If the Start Date and End Date are set, an End Date event is created.
- If the Start Date is set, a Start Date event is created.
- If the End Date is set, an End Date event is created.
- Release Conditions: Only allow learners to access the quiz if they meet its release conditions, or requirements. Click Add Release Conditions and then Create New or Add Existing. For example, you can create a release condition that only lets learners view the quiz after they complete a specific module.
- Special Access: Makes the quiz available to select groups of learners or create individualized due dates and customize the timing settings for certain learners.
- Click Manage Special Access to set the conditions.
Select one of the following options:
Click Add Users to Special Access.
Figure: Click the Add Users to Special Access button in the Special Access settings window.
Specify Properties: Due and Availability Dates.
Set one or both of the following Timing options.
Set an Attempts option. If you select Override attempts allowed, you can select a number of attempts allowed from 1 to 10 and click the Apply button. If a number of attempts from 2 to 10 is applied, you can select optional Advanced Attempt Conditions. To restrict access to attempts, enter a minimum and maximum percentage (0 - 100) that needs to be achieved on the previous attempt to qualify for another attempt.
Select users for Special Access.
Click Save.
Password: Only learners who enter the password can access the quiz to write it.IP Restrictions: Only learners with the IP addresses that you define can access the quiz.
If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.
Availability dates and conditions are saved for your quiz.
Add special access to a quiz that requires Respondus LockDown Browser
If Respondus LockDown Browser is enabled for the course offering a quiz resides in, you can exempt individual learners from the requirement to use the LockDown Browser when taking that quiz.
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes tab, select the quiz to which you want to add special access.
- Click the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion.
- Click Manage Special Access.
Figure: The Availability Dates & Conditions accordion showing the Manage Special Access option.
- Click Add Users to Special Access.
Figure: The Special Access dialog showing the Add Users to Special Access option.
- On the Add Special Access to Quiz page, under LockDown Broswer, select Not required to take this quiz.
- Select the learners that you want to exempt from using the LockDown Browser for this quiz, and click Add Special Access. The learners to whom you have granted this special access appear below the Add Users to Special Access button with a Do not require LockDown Browser for this quiz icon beside their names.
Note: The special access settings do not apply to all quizzes in a course offering automatically. You must add special access for learners to each quiz separately.
Set up Timing & Display
You can create a time limit for your quiz if needed and set up how the quiz displays to learners.
To set a time limit
If you do not want to set a time limit, do not select the Set time limit option. To set a time limit and enter the length of time for the quiz, follow the instructions below.
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display drop-down menu.
- Select Set time limit.
- In the Time Limit field, specify the length of time for the quiz in minutes.
- Click Timer Settings.
- In the Timing dialog, under Quiz Start, select one of the following:
- In the Timing dialog, under When The Time Limit Expires, select one of the following:
- If you want to automatically submit the quiz when the time limit is exceeded, select Automatically submit quiz attempt.
- If you want learners to be able to continue working after the time limit, select Flag as time limit exceeded and allow the learner to continue working.
- If you do not want to enforce the time limit, select Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced.
- Click OK.
Figure: Set up a synchronous quiz.
To set quiz display
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display drop-down menu.
- Configure the following:
- Paging: Choose how questions are displayed on the quiz.
- Shuffle Quiz: To shuffle quiz questions and sections, select Shuffle Quiz.
- Display:
- To disable separate types of notifications, select Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace.
- To show your quiz hints, select Allow Hints.
- Header and Footer: Click Manage Header and Footer to create a header or footer for your quiz.
Figure: Select the desired display settings.
- If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.
Timing and display settings are set for your quiz.
Video: Synchronize Quizzes for Learners
Publish your quiz
Make your quiz visible to learners.
To publish your quiz
- Visibility: Toggle to make your quiz either Hidden or Visible to learners.
Figure: Save and Close and Visibility options.
- Save and Close.
Your quiz is visible to learners.
Restore a deleted quiz
Once a quiz has been deleted, an instructor can have it restored, along with any associated quiz attempts, statistics, and scores for those quiz attempts. Learning Outcomes associated with quiz questions are unaffected, and re-appear with the questions when the quiz is restored. Links to a grade item and competencies are not restored.
Note: Quizzes deleted before the August 2022 / 20.22.8 Release cannot be restored using this method.
To restore a deleted quiz:
- In the Quizzes tool, navigate to Manage Quizzes > More Actions.
- Click Restore.
Figure: The More Actions drop-down menu with the Restore option highlighted.
- Find the quiz you wish to restore in the Restore List. The table lists Quiz Name, Deleted By, and Date Deleted.
- Click Restore.
Figure: The Restore Quizzes page.
Quiz Visibility
Toggle the visibility of quizzes to either hide quizzes from learners' view or make it visible for them to access or view.
Hide a quiz
Hide quizzes from view so that learners cannot access or see them.
To hide a quiz
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, from the Actions menu of a quiz, select Hide from Users.
Figure: The Actions menu for a quiz showing the Hide from Users option.
Note: You can also click Actions > Edit and change the quiz visibility on the creation page.
Make hidden quizzes visible
Make quizzes visible so that learners can take them and see them.
To make hidden quizzes visible
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, from the Actions menu of a quiz, select Make Visible to Users.
Figure: The Actions menu for a quiz showing the Make Visible to Users option.
Note: You can also click Actions > Edit and change the quiz visibility on the creation page.
Bulk hide or display quizzes
Bulk hide or make quizzes visible to change learners' view.
To bulk hide or display quizzes
- Navigate to Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, select the checkbox for any item you want to change the visibility of.
- Click More Actions and select Make Visible to Users or Hide from Users.
Figure: Selecting quizzes to change their visibility in bulk.
Manage Exemptions
You can manage exemptions by launching the Manage Exemptions page from the following locations in the Quizzes tool:
- On the Manage Quizzes page, in the context drop-down menu to the right of a quiz.
- On the Grade Quiz page as a button at the top of the page.
Set up a quiz report
You can view and export quiz reports to a CSV or Microsoft Excel file for data analysis. The file contains all applicable information from the quiz so that you can query, sort, and evaluate the data without being connected to the learning management system. You must set up quiz reports using the quiz context menu > Setup Reports option before you can view or export reports.
To view existing quiz reports, from the quiz context menu, click View Reports.
All statistics are calculated based on a user's first attempt of the quiz. If a question is changed after attempts have occurred, then only the attempts on the newest version of the question are included in the statistical calculations.
Select or deselect the Include exempted users in stats check box to either include or exclude exempted users in quiz statistics.
Average grade is calculated only for first attempts of the quiz.
For all reports, you can set a release date and select roles to release the report to.
Note: Quiz statistics are not computed for questions in a Question Pool.
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Report Type
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Details
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Question Statistics
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The average score on questions by points and percentage.
You can choose to include or exclude the class average, grade distribution, bonus questions, the Out Of value, standard deviation, point biserial, and discrimination index.
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Question Details
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All of the answers provided for each quiz attempt, how many users chose each possible answer, the total number of responses, and the average score on each question.
You can choose to include or exclude the level of difficulty, text responses, bonus questions, private comments added to the report, standard deviation, point biserial, and discrimination index.
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User Statistics
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The class average and standard deviation, grade distribution, and the grade of each user.
You can choose to include or exclude the class average, grade distribution, and Org Defined ID.
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Attempt Details
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The Org Defined ID, username, first name, and last name of each user. Detailed information about each question. The users’ responses for each question organized by attempt, including how long each attempt took.
You can choose to include or exclude the Org Defined ID and attempt duration.
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User Attempts
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The Org Defined ID, username, first name, and last name of each user. The users’ score for each question in points and percentage organized by attempt, including how long each attempt took.
You can choose to include or exclude the Org Defined ID and attempt duration.
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Create a quiz report that can detail statistics such as the class average or score distribution for your quiz.
To create a quiz report
- On the navbar, click Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, from the context menu of the quiz you want to create a report for, click Setup Reports.
- Enter a Report Name.
- Select your Report Type. Using the check boxes provided, customize your report's output.
- Select when you want to release the report, and which roles you want to release it to.
- Click Save.
A new quiz report is created.
Video: How to create a quiz report
Export the event log of all quiz attempts
You can export an event log of all quiz attempts made by all learners in your course. The event log for a quiz includes data about which users have completed the quiz, how many attempts they made, the date and time of quiz completion, and displays other events related to the quiz.
To export an event log
- From your course navbar, click Quizzes.
- Click the context menu next to the quiz you to export an event log for and select Grade.
- On the Grade Quiz page, click More Actions > Export Event Logs.
Figure: The Export Event Logs option of the Grade Quiz page.
- Enter a name for the file.
- Specify where you want to save the file.
- Click Save.
The event log is exported.
Prevent cheating in quizzes
Prevent cheating by shuffling quiz questions and disabling outgoing communication such as Email or instant messages.
To prevent cheating in quizzes
- On the Manage Quizzes page, select the Timing and Display dropdown list.
- Select Shuffle Quiz to shuffle questions and sections within the quiz.
- Select Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace to prevent messaging within Brightspace while the student is taking the quiz.
- Incorporate question pools or random sections into your quizzes to distribute unique sets of questions to users.
View the event log of a single quiz attempt
You can view an event log of a single quiz attempt made by an individual learner.
To view the event log of a single quiz attempt
- In the Quizzes tool, open a quiz.
- From the quiz drop-down menu, select Grade.
- On the Grade Quiz page, in the user list, click attempt 1.
The event log of the quiz attempt is displayed.