Creating quizzes
The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments. You can use the Quizzes tool as a way for you to assess your students or collect an assignment that can be auto-graded or manually graded by you. As part of your quantifiable assessment procedures, you can use quizzes to help evaluate users’ learning progress and learning outcomes. Create and manage quiz questions from the Question Library or the Quizzes tool, and organize quizzes into categories to make it easier to find assessments with similar or related content. Use the quiz preview option to test the accuracy of content and grading before you release a quiz. In a preview, you can answer the questions, view allowed hints, submit the quiz, auto-grade answers, read feedback, and view report results. Once you receive completed quizzes from learners, you can view quiz statistics such as grade distribution, grade average, question statistics, and user statistics on the Statistics page.
Creating a quiz requires multiple steps, including naming the quiz, setting point values, determining how many attempts a student gets, restrictions on the quiz, and what results the student sees after the quiz is submitted.
- What is required: A D2L Brightspace course in which you would like to create quizzes
Tutorials:
View the following documentation and videos:
- Create and configure a quiz
- Overview of question types – Video
- attach a release conditions to a quiz
- grant special access to users for a quiz
- reset quiz attempts for learners – Video
Prevent cheating in quizzes
To help prevent cheating in quizzes, you can do the following:
- On the Edit Quiz page, in the Timing & Display?area, select Disable Instant Messages and alerts –> not recommended!!!
Note: if you have this option checked and take the quiz as a student, but did not submit the quiz, you will not be able to use the email function in the Classlist to send emails to your students - Incorporate question pools or random sections into your quizzes to distribute unique sets of questions to users.
- On the Edit Quiz page, in the Quiz Questions area, select Shuffle Questions at the quiz level.
- On the section creation page, select Shuffle questions in this section.