Brightspace: Quizzes

Creating Quizzes

1. Click on Content in your course navigation

2. Find the module where you want to put the assignment. Learn more about modules and building in Brightspace. Note: you won't be able to create an assignment in Content until you create a module.

3. Click on Upload/Create and select New Quiz

4. You'll go to the New Quiz builder page

Getting Started With Quiz Builder

1. Give your quiz a name

2. Set a Due Date and add your instructions

Adding Your Questions

1. To upload a quiz document, go to Add Existing and then select Upload a File. From there, download the CSV template, adjust it for your quiz, and re-upload to import. Note: the template is tricky. Contact the DePeters Family Center for assistance. 

2. To create new questions, click on the Create New option. 

   • Choose New Question and select your question type (this Brightspace video will walk you through the question types available)

   • Choose multiple choice. 

   • Add the question/prompt into the Question Text box. Add in your answers and use the circle to the left to indicate the correct answer.

   • Choose whether you want to Randomize the Answer order. Don't use this if you use answers like All above or A and B only. 

   • Set the Points for the question.

   • Go to the Options window in the top right. You'll find:

     1. Add Feedback (feedback for each answer and overall question)

     2. Add Hint (Allows you to add a hint to each question)

     3. Add Short Description (adds a field before the question to add text)

     4. Add Custom Weights (weigh answers differently) 

     5. Add Enumeration (this adds ABC, 123, etc. in front of your answers)

   • Once you're done with the options, click Save and you'll go back to the Quiz builder page. From here, add your additional questions. 

Availability Dates & Conditions

1. Enter your start and end dates. By default, the visibility (accessible at the bottom left of the screen) is set to visible. This means that the quiz will be visible on the date you set as the Start Date. Prior to the start date, students can see that the quiz exists, but they can't click on it or engage with it.

2. Release conditions: prevents users from accessing/viewing the assignment until they meet specific conditions. 

   • If you have release conditions set up, you can select Add Existing. To set up new conditions, click Create New.

   • A new window will open. Set your condition type, set condition details, and select Create. 

3. Special Access allows activities to be made available for specific groups or individuals. 

   • Click Manage Special Access and you'll see two options, which are listed below. 

     1. Allow selected users special access to this quiz:  Set different due dates, availability dates, time, and attempts.

     2. Allow only users with special access to see this quiz: Set an assignment only for an individual or a group i.e. making up a missed assignment, extra credit for a student trying to catch up, etc. 

   • Choose your option and then select Add Users to Special Access. You'll then be able to make adjustments to the test properties. 

   • Click Save and Close

Timing & Display

1. If you want to set a time limit, click on Set Time Limit and set the amount of time

   1. By default the test will auto-submit when the timer is up

   2. Click on Timer Settings

      1. Choose how you want the quiz start to be handled:

         1. Asynchronous: the timer will start when the student starts the quiz. This option is primarily for tests that are taken outside of classtime

         2. Synchornous: the timer will start on the start date of the quiz. This option is primarily for tests taken during classtime where you want students to all be on the same timer/timer settings. 

   3. Choose from the following options:

      1. Automatically submit the quiz attempt

      2. Flag as "exceeded time limit" and allow the learner to continue working

      3. Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced

2. Paging: dictates how the test is displayed. Choose from All Questions Displayed Together, 1 Question Per Page, or Add Page Break After Each Section

3. Prevent going back to previous pages: Students wouldn't be able to go back to previous questions to change answers

4. Shuffle Quiz: shuffle questions and sections of questions for each student’s quiz attempt.

5. Display: 

   1. Choose to turn on hints. Once you turn it on for the entire test, you can go to each individual question to turn on/add. 

   2. Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace: this will prevent students from communicating tools in Brightspace only. 

6. Header and Footer: allows for the addition of header and footer text

Attempts & Completion

1. Click Manage Attempts and set the number of attempts allowed (how many times an individual can take the test). Overall Grade Calculation allows you to score based on the Highest Attempt, Lowest Attempt, First Attempt, Last Attempt, or the Average of All Attempts. 

2. Click OK when you're done.

3. Notification Email: add your email to be alerted when a quiz is attempted. 

Evaluation & Feedback

Note: if you use feedback for individual questions and want students to see it, you will need to enable questions to show (i.e. incorrect questions only with correct answers, all questions with correct answers, or all questions without correct answers) to students either in the "when published view" or in an additional view that you set up with the "customize quiz results display option." 

1. Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion: when students submit, they will see their grade. DO NOT check this box if you have questions that can't be evaluated by the system (i.e. short answer) as the system will give them a zero, or if you want to review a quiz submission before it is published to students.

2. If your quiz is in the grade book, you'll have the option to Synchronize to grade book on publish, which means the grade will be published to the grade book when it has been evaluated. Keep this checked as it will connect the quiz grade to the grade book.

3. When published, display to learners: their attempt grade  and the following options: 

   1. No questions (shows nothing)

   2. Incorrect questions only, with correct answers

   3. All questions with correct answers

   4. All questions without correct answers

4. Customize Quiz Results Displays: based on your answers to the dropbox above, this will show you what displays to students when they finish the test. You can customize this view as well. 

5. If you want your quiz results to show after a certain date (i.e. after you've reviewed them or after the due date, click on Customize Quiz Results Displays and then select Additional View

   1. Select the Display Date (the date when students would be able to see more information

   2. Use the checkbox that says A limited amount of time, if you want to only allow students to see this information for a limited amount of time

   3. Message: add a custom message here

   4. Grade: if you want the grade to display to students check this box

   5. Questions: choose which question types, or no questions, to show

   6. Under statistics, select if you want to display the class average and/or the grade distribution

   7. Click Create and then on the next screen you'll see a preview of the additional view. Click OK on that screen.

6. Learning Objectives: if you have learning objectives or want to create them and then tie them to this quiz, click Manage Learning Objectives to do that. 

Next Steps

1. After you add your questions and finish the settings click Save and Close. 

2. Your quiz should now show up on the module page where you built it

   1. To edit the test, click on the name of the test then choose Quiz Setup.

3. To preview the test, click the Preview button

4. We recommend hiding the column associated with the test in your grade book from students so they won't see the test results before you have a chance to review and publish them.

5. On this screen, you can also see additional information about the quiz details, the learning objectives (if there are any), and the completion summary (which shows student information)

6. Quizzes that need to be reviewed will go into QuickEval