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 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.
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.
- Enter the Due Date for your quiz.
- Enter a Description for your quiz.
Now you can add quiz questions to your quiz.
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 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.
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 you can create individualized due dates for certain learners. Click Manage Special Access to set the conditions.
- 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.
Set up Timing & Display
Create a time limit for your quiz and set up how the quiz displays to learners.
To set quiz timing and display
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display drop-down menu.
Figure: The Timing & Display drop-down menu.
- Configure the following:
- Timing: Click Manage Timing to set the time limit for the quiz.
- 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.
- If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.
Timing and display settings are set for your quiz.
Set up Attempts & Completion
Configure the number of quiz attempts and manage how you track learners’ quiz completion.
To set up attempts and completion
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Attempts & Completion drop-down menu.
Figure: The Attempts & Completion drop-down menu.
- Customize the following:
- Attempts: Click Manage Attempts to set how many times a learner can take a quiz.
- Category: Select a category for your quiz from the drop-down menu.
- Notification Email: Enter email addresses for notification emails when a learner completes a quiz.
- Completion Tracking: Click Manage Completion Tracking to set when a learner is considered to have completed the quiz.
- If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.
Attempts and completion settings are set for your quiz.
Set up Evaluation & Feedback
You can add assessment options to your quizzes to share attempt feedback and results using Evaluation & Feedback settings. This enables you display quiz results upon completion and associating quizzes to grade items for the purposes of summative assessment.
To set up quiz results and feedback
- From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Evaluation & Feedback drop-down menu.
Figure: The Evaluation & Feedback drop-down menu.
- Customize the following:
- Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion: Publish quiz results for learners immediately after they complete the quiz.
- Synchronize to grade book on publish: Sync this quiz’s grades to Grade Book. The option is grayed if you have not set up Grade Book.
- When published, display to learners: Click Attempt grade to display learners’ attempt grade. Click the question display drop-down menu to select which questions are displayed to learners after publishing the quiz.
- Customize Quiz Results Display: Create a custom dialog for learners after they finish their quiz. You can customize the Primary View that will appear immediately after learners complete their quiz and a Secondary View that will appear later based on a date set by you.
- Learning Objectives: Click Manage Learning Objectives to associate learning objectives with your quiz.
- If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.
Evaluation and feedback settings are saved for your quiz.
Video: Incorporate Activities
Use Sections to display related quiz questions on a single page
You can use sections to organize related quiz questions and display them to learners with a section header on a single page. This is useful when you want to present questions to a learner, but also organize questions conceptually by theme or parent topic. For example, sections could allow you to present all questions related to biology on a single page, or display a series of single biology questions on pages, each with the same section header.
To use sections to organize quiz questions
- From your organization or course navbar, click Quizzes.
- Click New Quiz.
- Enter a Name for your quiz.
- Under Questions, click Create New and select Section. The New Section page opens.
Figure: The New Section page.
- Enter a Section Title and click Save.
- To create a quiz question to add to this section, click Create New > New Question or select a question from the Question Pool.
- Click and drag the quiz question into the Section. The quiz question nests under the Section.
Figure: A quiz Section with a quiz question nested under it.
- Repeat steps 5 to 7 to create more sections and nested quiz questions.
- Click Timing & Display. Under Paging select Add page break after each section. This ensures that each section and all quiz questions nested under that section will display separately on a page.
Figure: The Paging option set to Add page break after each section.
- Click Save and then click Preview.
Note: When you preview, each Section that you create displays all the questions nested under it on a single page.
Sections are added to your quiz to display related questions on a single page.
Align learning outcomes to quiz questions
When you align a question to a learning outcome, the learning outcomes is aligned to all uses of that question within quizzes in the same course offering. It is possible to bulk align to all questions within a question pool or section.
In addition, you can align learning outcomes to question pools. If you align a question pool to an outcome, all questions in that pool are aligned in all incidences of the question inside and outside the question pool.
To align learning outcomes to quiz questions in the New Experience
- From the course navbar or Course Admin > Assessment, click Quizzes.
- Click a quiz that already contains quiz questions.
Figure: The Manage Quizzes tab with a sample quiz highlighted.
- Select one or more questions or question pools to be aligned with standards, then click More Actions.
Figure: The Questions page in the New Experience, with the More Actions drop-down menu highlighted.
- Click Align to Standards.
Select the check boxes for the learning outcomes you want to align to the quiz questions and click Add. The associated standards now appear under each of the selected questions. - To remove learning outcome alignments on quiz questions, select one or more questions or question pools that are aligned with standards and click More Actions.
- Click Align to Standards.
Uncheck boxes for the learning outcomes you want to remove from the quiz questions and click Add. The associated standards are now removed from the question.
To align learning outcomes to quiz questions in the Classic Experience
- From the course navbar or Course Admin > Assessment, click Quizzes.
- Click a quiz that already contains quiz questions.
Figure: The Manage Quizzes tab with a sample quiz highlighted.
- Click Add/Edit Questions.
Figure: The Quiz Questions page in Classic Experience. The Add/Edit Questions button opens the a dialog box which lists the available questions.
- Search for or browse to find one or more questions or question pools to be aligned with standards. Once selected, click More Actions.
Note: The More Actions button does not appear until you have selected a question.
Figure: The More Actions button displays the standards you can align to the selected question.
- Click Align to Standards. Select the check boxes for the learning outcomes you want to align to the quiz questions and click Add. The associated standards now appear under each of the selected questions.
- Clear the check boxes for the previously selected quiz questions and repeat the process to align any additional quiz questions to appropriate standards.
- When you have completed aligning questions to standards, click Back to Settings for <selected> quiz.
When a question in a quiz has a learning outcome aligned to it, an outcome tag appears next to the question in the Quiz Builder View and the Question Pool Editor. The Question Pool view also shows the cumulative list of all outcomes aligned to questions within the pool.
Customize the submission view to show quiz answers to learners
To release the submission view to learners immediately upon completion of the quiz, on the Edit quiz page > Assessment tab, select the Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion check box. Submission views are set up in terms of a default view and an additional view. The default view enables all learners, for instance, to see their final quiz score immediately after submitting the quiz. You could edit the default view and show questions answered incorrectly, show questions answered correctly, show all questions without user responses, or show all questions with user responses. Displaying a detailed submission view to all learners immediately after submitting a quiz would work if all learners take the quiz at the same time. However, if learners are completing the quiz at different times, and you want to ensure that learners do not share the answer key with other learners, you may choose to create an additional submission view. This additional view only appears to learners when you publish the feedback on a quiz attempt.
To customize the submission view in the New Experience
- On the navbar, click Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, click the quiz you want to create a submission view for.
- Click on the Evaluation and Feedback drop-down list.
- Click Customize Quiz Results Displays.
- Click Edit View to customize the submission view. The questions are visible to learners in the submission view, select one of the following options to specify how you want the questions to appear:
- Don't show - No questions appear in the submission view.
- All Questions - All quiz questions and learner responses are displayed in the submission view.
- Incorrect questions only with learner responses - Only incorrectly answered questions appear in the submission view.
- Correct questions only with learner responses - Only correctly answered questions appear in the submission view.
- Click Update.
- Click OK to return to the Manage Quizzes page.
- For the When publishing, display to learners section, you can choose to show students their Attempt grade and choose from the dropdown list how the questions should display in the submission view.
- Click OK.
- Click Save and Close.
Submission view settings are saved for your quiz.
To customize the submission view in the Classic Experience
- On the navbar, click Quizzes.
- On the Manage Quizzes page, click the quiz you want to create a submission view for.
- To edit the default view, on the Submission Views tab, click the Default View link. Make your changes and click Save.
Note: The Default View is displayed if the Additional View restriction rules you set are not met. - To create a new view with some restrictions, on the Submissions View tab, click Add Additional View.
- Under View Properties, enter a Name for the new submission view, and enter a Message for the learners when the submission view displays.
- Under View Restrictions, add rules for when the submission view is released to a learner.
- To release the submission view to learners at a given date, enter a Date.
- To apply the same IP restrictions set on the quiz, enable IP Restrictions (IPv4).
- To limit the time the submission view is available to a learner, select the Limit the amount of time (in minutes) for which this view is available after the quiz is submitted check box and enter a time in minutes.
Note: This time starts immediately after the instructor grades the learner’s quiz and publishes quiz feedback. If the date you selected to release this additional submission view is further away than the time entered here, learners will not be able to view their quiz submission.
Note: The View Restrictions section is not available in the Default View.
- Under View Details, select the quiz and question details you want to display to learners in the submission view.
- Under Show Questions, select either Yes or No. If you decided to show the questions to learners in the submission view, select one of the four following options to specify how you want the questions to appear in the submission view:
- Show questions answered incorrectly - Only incorrectly answered questions appear in the submission view.
- Show questions answered correctly - Only correctly answered questions appear in the submission view.
- Show all questions without user responses - All quiz questions appear in the submission view. However, learner responses are not displayed.
- Show all questions with user responses - All quiz questions and learner responses are displayed in the submission view.
- You can optionally select how the answers and scores related to the questions display to learners in the submission view:
- Show question answers - Displays the answers to the questions based on the option you selected in step 7.
- Show question score and out of score - Displays a learner's score for each question and the value of each question, depending on the option selected in step 7.
- To display the standards associated to quiz questions and the evaluation a learner received on them, select the Show standards checkbox.
- Under Score, you can select to Show attempt score and overall attempt score, which allows learners to view their attempt score once their quiz attempt has been graded and published.
- Under Statistics, select the following options:
- Show class average - This allows learners to view the class average for the quiz.
- Show grade distribution - This allows learners to view the distribution of grades.
- Click Save.
- Click Save and Close.
Submission view settings are saved for your quiz.
Publish your quiz
Make your quiz visible to learners.
To publish your quiz
- Figure: Save and Close and Visibility options.
- Save and Close.
Your quiz is visible to learners.
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; or
- On the Grade Quiz page as a button at the top of the page
About quiz reports
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.
Report Type
| Details
|
|---|
Question Statistics | 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. |
Question Details | 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. |
User Statistics | 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. |
Attempt Details | 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. |
User Attempts | 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. |
Set up a quiz report
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.
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 in the New Experience
- 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.
To prevent cheating in quizzes in the Classic Experience
- On the Edit Quiz page, select the Properties tab and scroll down to the Optional Advanced Properties area. Then check the box beside Disable Email, Instant Messages and alerts.
- Incorporate question pools or random sections into your quizzes to distribute unique sets of questions to users.
- On the Edit Quiz page, select the Properties tab and scroll down to the Quiz Questions area. Then check the box beside Shuffle questions at the quiz level.
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.
