This article explains what Quizzes are and how you can use them.
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Quizzes can be used to create tests. It is possible to let Quizzes be graded automatically in Brightspace. The advantages of using quizzes are as following:
- You can make use of a variety of question types and multimedia.
- You can analyse elaborate and detailed quiz statistics.
- You can generate a quiz report to share data.
- You can provide effective and specific feedback.
Preferably create all questions in the question library prior to creating a quiz. That way you can quickly and easily import (or re-use) questions in your quiz (or survey). How to go about creating new questions, you can read in the article How do I use the Question Library?
Quiz homepage
- Navigate to Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Quizzes.
This is the Quizzes homepage, the first tab of Quizzes (Manage Quizzes). This is where you see an overview of all Quizzes you have created for a course, and can:
- create a New Quiz;
- edit quiz categories (Edit Categories);
- Reorder, Make Visible to or Hide from Users, or Delete Quizzes via More Actions;
- sort quizzes in the overview based on Category or Availability: click the arrow, select your preference and click Apply;
- open the Quick menu of a quiz;
- look for this icon if you want the quiz to be Hidden from Users;
- quick and easily edit multiple quizzes at once via Bulk Edit. This is particularly useful for assigning categories to a quiz or (de)activating them.
Quiz Quick menu
From the Quiz homepage you can easily navigate to different Quizzes via the Quick menu.
- Click the fold-out arrow behind the name of a quiz and select:
- Edit to adjust the quiz;
- Make Visible to Users to make the quiz visible to other Users;
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Preview to see a preview of the quiz/walk through the quiz as if you were a student:
- Tick Bypass Restrictions at the top of your page, if you want to bypass any restrictions (Restrictions bypassed include conditional release, dates, number of attempts, whether or not the quiz is active, and Respondus LockDown Browser usage) which you set up for (certain) users.
- Click Start Quiz! at the bottom of the page to start the quiz.
- After having completed the quiz, tick at the bottom of the page whether you want this trial attempt to be evaluated or not. (Please note: Trial attempts do not count for the class statistics of the quiz).
- Lastly, click Exit Preview.
- Click:
- Delete to delete the quiz;
- Copy to create a copy of the quiz (this can be used to create Templates of quizzes);
- Grade to grade/evaluate the quiz;
- Setup Reports to open the Setup Reports tab where you can add reports, choose their name, type, and release date, and select to whom you want to send this report to. For more details regarding the creation of a (statistical) report click here;
- View Reports to view the quiz reports;
- Statistics to navigate to the quiz statistics page;
- Attempt Logs for an overview of the attempts made;