This article explains what restrictions for quizzes are, why you use them and how you can set restrictions for a quiz. The Advanced settings will also be discussed.
At the Availability Dates & Conditions sections you can decide:
- whether a quiz is displayed to students and/or has a deadline (status, deadline and availability);
- whether there are release conditions attached to the quiz;
- whether students need to enter a password before they can start on the quiz and/or can only do the quiz when they are working from a certain IP-address;
- if you want to allow (certain) students to get special access to the quiz (for example, extra time for a student with a visual disability).
At Timing & Display sections you can decide:
- whether the quiz has a time limit;
- if there is a time frame in which the students need to complete the quiz;
Availability Dates & Conditions
- Go to Course Tools in the navbar of your course.
- Click Quizzes. You will land on the quiz homepage.
- Click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you want to edit.
- Click Edit.
- Go to Availability Dates & Conditions
- Here you can set a start and/or end date if you only want to give students access to the quiz for a limited time.
- Tick Display in Calendar if you want the specified date to appear in the calendar of both your students and yourself.
- At Release Condition you can identify requirements that your students need to meet in order for the quiz to become available to them. A quiz can contain multiple release conditions (for example: student only get access to the quiz after having submitted assignment 1 and/or finishing the checklist of week 1 completely).
- Click Attach Existing to add existing release conditions.
- Click Create and Attach to create and add new release conditions.
- Identify whether students need to meet one of the conditions (Any condition must be met) or all of them (All conditions must be met)
- At Special Access you can provide users with special access to the quiz:
- Tick Allow selected users special access to this quiz to allow a specific group of students special access to the quiz (for example extra time, an extra attempt, or a pushed deadline).
- Tick Allow only users with special access to see this quiz to only allow a specific group of students to have access to the quiz.
- Click Add Users to Special Access to select the group of students that get special access as well as specify the details of that special access (you set a start and end date for the quiz, a time limit, and the max. amount of attempts):
- At Special Access Properties you can adjust the due-, start- and end date.
- At Timing you can adjust the time limit.
- At Attempts you can tick Override attempts allowed to give certain students more/fewer submission attempts.
- At Advanced Attempt Conditions you can identify the percentage of correct/incorrect questions (certain) students need to achieve in order to be allowed a second attempt. (This option will only be visible if the Attempts Allowed is 2 or more.)
- Use the search bar (View By) to find the right students and indicate which students you want to give special access to.
- Click Save
- At Password, you can set up a password. Only users that enter the correct password can get access to the quiz:
- At Password fill in a password.
- At IP Restrictions, you can set up IP restriction.
- Click Add new IP Range to identify which IP addresses are permitted. This is particularly useful when you want students to participate in quizzes on campus or at a special location. Note: the Brightspace server can only view external facing IP addresses that your institution is using, so don't use any internal ones. To get the right IPs to use, log into a computer from where you want students to take a quiz and view your Login History to see the IP address.
Timing & Display
- Go to Course Tools in the navigation bar of your course
- Click on Quizzes. You will see the homepage of the quiz.
- Click on the arrow next to the title of the quiz that you want to edit.
- Click on Edit.
- Go to Timing & Display
- Select Set Time limit
- Choose a time and click on Timer Settings
Within Timing, you can choose to set a time limit for the quiz, decide when the timer starts and choose whether the quiz disappears after the time limit has passed.
- You can choose if you want to set a time limit by selecting the Set time limit checkbox, which is cleared by default. If Set time limit is selected, you can add a Time Limit and edit the Timer Settings.
- The option Asynchronous allows you to start the timer of the quiz when the student starts the quiz. This means that students start the quiz at different moments.
- The option Synchronous allows you to start the timer of the quiz at a start date. This means that the quiz starts for all the students at the same time.
- As an instructor, you have the option to select Automatically submit the quiz attempt for when a student exceeds the time limit. The auto-submission means that the student's work is automatically handed in in quizzes at the end of the set time, improving quiz integrity. Note: The Automatically submit the quiz attempt option is the default setting for all created quizzes.
- The option Flag as "exceeded time limit" and allow the learner to continue working ensures that the submitted quiz is flagged when he/she goes over the time limit. Thus, the student can continue working during the quiz with this option.
- The option Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced ensures that nothing happens when the student goes over the time limit. The time limit then functions as a suggested time.
At Display, you can set up further attributes when students take the quiz (for example, you can Disable right-click, which will not allow students to copy the text questions, or Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace, which will enable students to focus on their quiz without interruption).
If you have students who require extra time to complete your quizzes, consider using the Accommodations feature instead. This feature allows you to grant students extra time to complete every quiz in your course.
This feature can be enabled on a per student basis by clicking the chevron next to the student's name in the classlist and selecting "Edit Accommodations".
You can either grant an extra set amount of time or a multiple of the original quiz time.
Date restrictions and release conditions are automatically transferred when the quiz becomes available in Content. In Content, if you adjust the date restrictions and/or release conditions at a topic of the type quiz (via Edit Properties In-place or in the topic itself), these changes will not only be applied to the topic but to the quiz as well.