Summary
The Brightspace Quizzes Tool includes all the features and functions available for creating, administering, and grading tests and quizzes in D2L Brightspace. Students access the tool when taking tests and quizzes and reviewing their results.
Information Applies to
Faculty
Jump to
Creating Quizzes
Adding Questions
Settings for Respondus LockDown Browser
Grading Quizzes
Printing Quizzes
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Creating Quizzes
Setting up Quizzes begins by accessing the Quizzes option from the course navigation bar.
Click the New Quiz button near the top-left of the screen.
The following video walks through the many settings of found in the Quiz Tool,
Note: A number of D2L Brightspace changes have made the Special Access process much easier to configure for your students. Please check out this article Managing Special Access to learn more about this process.
Adding Questions
The Quiz tool provides instructors with many different ways to create engaging quiz questions. This process takes time, but the benefits of designing your exams within the Brightspace Quiz tool will allow you to build on the skills you will learn within this article. To begin to add questions to a quiz.
1. Within the quiz you wish to add questions, choose the Create New button and New Question option.
2. Here, you will be given the choice to add questions.
3. The types of questions you can ask are familiar to most (Multiple Choice, True False, Fill in the Blank, etc.). However, the list below addresses the question types that are most confusing to new users.
- Multi-Select: This question allows a student to choose multiple possible answers. This would be the key difference from Multiple Choice question where you would only be allowed one answer choice. We generally discourage faculty from using the Multi-section question type.
- Multi-Short Answer: Allows you to have many different short answers to a question(s) that have varying weighted answers.
- Written Response: Most would call this option an essay question and would need to be graded manually.
- Arithmetic Question: Create basic arithmetic questions that you can have randomly chosen variables within a preset range of numbers for the question, providing unique questions for each student.
- Significant Figures: Allows a student to use scientific notation format to answer questions. See more here.
- Image Information: Provide an image for a series of questions that would follow. We have seen this type of question used effectively in questions related to food labels, where the student is asked a series of questions that relate to the same label to show deeper understanding.
4. Once a question type is selected, a form for that question type will appear. In the example below a Multiple Choice (see A in the clip below) questions is shown that gives you the ability to type in the question text (B), possible answers (C), choose the correct answers (D), add more possible answers (E), randomize answers for each student taking the exam (F), and designate the points value for this question (G).
4. Select Save or from the pull-down menu, Save and New or Save and Copy to create multiple questions of that same type (see H above).
Questions can be pulled from previous exams, Question Libraries, a CSV text file, or from the Learning Objects Repository (LOR).
Uploading Questions From a File
The process of importing questions from a few different file types. A formatted text file template CSV or IMS QTI compliant course package (ZIP) can be uploaded by choosing the Upload a File option from the Add Existing button in the Questions section of the quiz.
Importing Questions From the Question Library
Importing questions from the Question Library is an effective way to create custom quizzes from your publisher's content or past semesters. To import questions from the Question Library:
- Go to the quiz or create a new quiz if you are making a new exam.
- Choose the Add Existing button in the Questions section of the quiz.
- Select the Browse Question Library option and choose the section(s) or question(s) you would like to import by checking the items you want.
- Choose the Import button and select where you want the section(s) or question(s) to go in your quiz (Import to Top of Quiz, Import to Bottom of Quiz, or Import to Section).
- Save and Close, and you are done importing questions from a Question Library.
Respondus LockDown Browser
Every semester you will need to connecting your Quiz to LockDown Browser as these are new course are not connected to your Respondus LockDown Browser service. The following articles cover the process for using this service from the faculty and student perspectives.
Grading Quizzes
Quizzes are graded automatically on most types of questions, but some questions require manual grading or regrading a question for the entire class.
1. Select Quizzes from the Assessment menu of your Brightspace course
2. Select the name of the quiz from your list of quizzes
3. To the right of your quiz name is a context menu with Grade as one of the options.
4. From the Users tab (i.e. the default view when you enter) you will see the attempts listed below each of your student's names (e.g. Attempt 1 in the clip below).
5. Select the attempt you would like to grade and you will see the quiz as the student filled out each question.
6. You can manually grade the entire exam as well as individual items on the exam as you work down each of the questions.
7. After grading is complete for each exam you can select the Update button in the bottom left corner and that exam will be regraded.
There are times when a question doesn't work for your class. Regrading an entire class on one question is very helpful to know how to do. Note: This step should only be done after all your students have taken the exam.
1. Login to Brightspace and select the Quizzes option.
2. A list of all quizzes will appear you should select the pull-down menu to the right of the quiz you wish to regrade and select the Grade option.
3. Choose the Questions tab and select Update All Attempts.
5. Select the question you would like to regrade.
6. Within this view, choose the grading type (Give to all attempts or Give to attempts with a specified answer point values) and points you wish to give for that answer. When regrading a multiple choice question with multiple correct answers or when adding partial credit to answers other than the original answer, instructors must go through this process multiple times. In other words, they must do this for every answer that results in any points, including the original correct answer.
7. Once you have saved these changes, you will note the action within the Modifications Log.
Printing Quizzes
From time to time, teachers want to print copies of their quizzes for use in special accommodations or as an archive of past testing materials. The Quiz tool in Brightspace does not include a direct mechanism for printing quizzes.
Preparing to Print
If you have set up your quiz to present multiple pages of questions, you will want to temporarily override the Questions per page setting so all questions are displayed at once. Be sure to remember the original number of questions per page because you will want to reset the parameter once you have printed the quiz.
- Click Quizzes from the main navigation menu.
- On the ride-side panel, ensure that you have selected All questions displayed together from the Timing & Display menu.
- Click Save and Close.
If you needed to change the number of questions per page to print your quiz, be sure to set it back to the original value after you complete your print job.
Printing Quiz Without Answers
- Click Quizzes from the main navigation.
- Click the little arrow behind the name of the quiz you want to print and select Preview from the pop-up.
- Click the blue Start Quiz! button.
- Select a portion of text from the first question (not the responses).
- Print the page (Ctrl + P for PCs, Command + P for Macs).
- In the print preview, ensure that all questions are displayed.
- Proceed with printing as usual.
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