This article explains what quizzes are and how you can use them.
The content of this article consists of:
• Quiz home page
• Quiz Quick menu
You can use the Quizzes feature to create online tests. Quizzes can be graded automatically by Brightspace. Quizzes have the following benefits:
• You can use a large number of question types and multimedia in questions.
• You can see extensive quiz statistics and analysis.
• You can make a report of the quiz to share data.
• You can give effective and specific feedback on completed quizzes.
It is recommended to create all questions in the Question Library in advance, before creating the quiz itself. This way you can easily and quickly import (or reuse) questions in your quiz. You can find more about creating new questions in the article How do I use the Question Library?
Quiz homepage
- Navigate to Course Tools in the navigation bar of your course.
- Click on Quizzes.
This is the home page for Quizzes, the first tab of Quizzes (Manage Quizzes). Here you can find an overview of all quizzes you have created for a course and perform the following actions:
- Create a new quiz with New Quiz, read more here;
- Change the categories of your quizzes (Edit Categories);
- Via the More Actions menu you can: add goal (Add Learning Object), adjust quiz order (Reorder), make quizzes (In)visible (Make Visible to/Hide from Users) or remove quizzes (Delete) quizzes;
- Sort quizzes by category (Category) or availability (Availability): click on the arrow, select your choice and click Apply.;
- Open the shortcut menu of a quiz;
- Quickly and easily edit multiple quizzes at once with the Bulk Edit option. This is mainly useful for assigning categories of quizzes or for (de)activating quizzes.
Quick menu quiz
From the quiz homepage you can easily navigate to a quiz with the Quick menu.
- Click the arrow next to a quiz name and select:
- Edit to change the quiz;
- Make Visible/Hide to User to make the quiz (in)visible;
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Preview to to preview a quiz or to go through the quiz as a student would view it:
- Select Bypass Restrictions at the top of your page if you want to avoid any restrictions you may have set for certain users, such as the maximum number of attempts someone has for your quiz.
- Click Start Quiz! at the bottom of the page to start the quiz.
- Once you are done with the quiz you can select at the bottom of the page whether you want to have this test attempt graded or not. Test attempts are never included in your quiz statistics.
- When you're done, click Exit Preview to close the preview.
- Delete to delete the quiz;
- Copy to copy the quiz;
- Grade to check the quiz;
- Setup Reports to create reports;
- View Reports to view the report of your quiz. Reports are only visible if you have set them up with Reports Setup;
- Statistics to navigate to your quiz's statistics;
- Manage Exemptions to set exceptions for students
- Attempt Logs for a record of quiz attempts;
- Publish to LOR to submit your quiz in the LOR to either Copy Right Materials or the Instructor Repository, online repositories of copyrighted materials and teachers. (This is only necessary if your quiz uses content that applies to it).
You can include a Quiz in the gradebook. The score will then show there. You can filter by class or other groups in the gradebook. If you do not include the quiz in the gradebook, you will have to view scores via the quiz tool itself. There you can not filter by class / group.
For more extensive possibilities in test questions or analysis, we advise you to use TestVision. You can also use Testvision for formative tests. Ask your academy's TLC advisor or Instructional Designer for more information.