Create a Quiz

Quizzes can be used to sup­port stu­dent learn­ing, as part of their over­all eval­u­a­tion or with lit­tle or no over­all final grade val­ue. They are used to engage learn­ers inter­ac­tive­ly, offer­ing imme­di­ate feed­back and per­son­al­ized pac­ing, which in turn fos­ters deep com­pre­hen­sion and con­ve­nient, flex­i­ble study. As an instruc­tor, you will also gain insights into your stu­dents’ per­for­mance, enabling data-dri­ven enhance­ments.

You can find the Quizzes tool under the Activ­i­ties menu. This tool lets you build online quizzes that can be grad­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly or reviewed man­u­al­ly with­in Bright­space. It also includes the Ques­tion Library which allows you to orga­nize and reuse your ques­tions across oth­er tools, such as Self-Assess­ments and Sur­veys.

The Ques­tion Library is a cen­tral loca­tion where you can cre­ate, orga­nize, and man­age all your quiz ques­tions. It’s acces­si­ble from Quizzes, Self-Assess­ments, and Sur­veys, and works much like a file man­ag­er, but for ques­tions. It’s best to build your ques­tions in the Ques­tion Library first. This keeps them safe­ly stored, allows you to reuse them across activ­i­ties, and pre­vents data loss if a quiz is delet­ed. You can also import pub­lish­er or exter­nal ques­tions here and edit them before mak­ing them avail­able to stu­dents. If you did­n’t cre­ate your ques­tions in the Ques­tion Library you can always copy them back to the Ques­tion Library.

Creating New Questions

  1.   Once in the Ques­tion Library, click the New But­ton.
  2.  Choose Sec­tion and give it a name (e.g., Mid-term). Click Save.

*NOTE: Sec­tions group relat­ed ques­tions, mak­ing it eas­i­er to orga­nize and reuse them when build­ing quizzes. You can also shuf­fle ques­tions with­in a sec­tion so each learn­er sees them in a dif­fer­ent order.

  1. Select the Sec­tion you just cre­at­ed and click New.
  2.  Choose the Ques­tion type. Click to view what ques­tion types that are auto­mat­i­cal­ly eval­u­at­ed.
  3.  Add the rel­e­vant ques­tion text, includ­ing any mate­r­i­al from the HTML bar.
  4.  Choose the points val­ue for the ques­tion and the dif­fi­cul­ty lev­el for the ques­tion.
  5. Click Save or Save and New (this allows you to imme­di­ate­ly add more ques­tions).

 Importing Existing Questions

  1. Once in the Ques­tion Library, click the Import But­ton and either select Upload a File or Browse Exist­ing Ques­tions.
  • Bright­space only sup­ports the upload of for­mat­ted text files (CSV) or IMS QTI com­pli­ant course pack­ages (ZIP). Algo­nquin Col­lege has cre­at­ed a Quiz Ques­tion Gen­er­a­tor that pro­vides an easy way to cre­ate a col­lec­tion of ques­tions that can be import­ed into Bright­space.
  • Browse Exist­ing Ques­tions allows you to essen­tial­ly copy ques­tions from exist­ing course quizzes into the Ques­tion Library. Watch the video below to learn how to copy exist­ing quiz ques­tions back into the library.

Quizzes can include a vari­ety of ques­tion types such as: mul­ti­ple-choice, true/false, short answer and essay prompts. You can cus­tomize quizzes to fit your spe­cif­ic needs by set­ting time lim­its, adding release con­di­tions, ran­dom­iz­ing ques­tions, adding hints and more. To begin cre­at­ing a quiz fol­low the steps below.

  1. Nav­i­gate to Activ­i­ties > Quizzes.
  2. Click New Quiz.
  1. Title the quiz and choose whether or not you want to add it to the grade­book. If the quiz in Not in Grade Book the total points will reflect total points of ques­tions. If the quiz is In Grade Book, the total points will reflect the max­i­mum points of the asso­ci­at­ed grade item.

*NOTE: if you’ve already built your grade­book and have a grade item that match­es the quiz, choose ‘Edit or Link to Exist­ing’ and select the cor­re­spond­ing grade item to link your quiz. If you choose ‘Add to Grade Book’ a grade book item will be cre­at­ed for you. 

  1. Add a Due Date and a Descrip­tion (Instruc­tions) for the Quiz. 
  1. Under Ques­tions, click Add Exist­ing (if you’ve already cre­at­ed ques­tions in the Ques­tion Library) and choose the appro­pri­ate option OR click Cre­ate New if you’re cre­at­ing a ques­tion that does­n’t already exist with­in the Ques­tion Library.

*NOTE: A Ques­tion Pool allows you to choose a select num­ber of ques­tions from your repos­i­to­ry. This fea­ture is nice as it allows you to cre­ate unique quizzes that are dif­fer­ent for each stu­dent. 

  1.  Once you’ve pop­u­lat­ed your Quiz with ques­tions, you can now add restric­tion set­tings (e.g., ‘Avail­abil­i­ty Dates & Con­di­tions’, ‘Tim­ing & Dis­play’, ‘Attempts & Com­ple­tion’ and ‘Eval­u­a­tion & Feed­back’). See the tabs below for more infor­ma­tion.

  1. From the Avail­abil­i­ty Dates & Con­di­tions menu click Man­age Spe­cial Access.
  2. From the Man­age Spe­cial Access win­dow, choose the first but­ton to allow spe­cif­ic stu­dents spe­cial access. Choose the sec­ond but­ton to allow access to ONLY stu­dents with spe­cial access.
  1. Adjust the dates and check the box next to the stu­dent with accom­mo­da­tions. Click Save.

Setting Quiz Restrictions

The quiz edit win­dow includes 4 wid­gets on the right side that can be col­lapsed and expand­ed; each wid­get con­tains set­tings that can be adjust­ed in order to tai­lor a quiz to your needs. See the infor­ma­tion in the tabs below to learn more about the set­tings found in each wid­get.

You can set date restric­tions for your quizzes as well as add release con­di­tions and spe­cial access for spe­cif­ic stu­dents when need­ed.

  • Start and End Dates: Start and end dates auto­mate when stu­dents can access an assign­ment, so you don’t have to man­u­al­ly tog­gle the visible/hidden icon. If you set a Start Date and time, stu­dents won’t be able to open the assign­ment until that date and time. If no Start Date is set, the assign­ment is avail­able as soon as it’s cre­at­ed and made vis­i­ble.
  • Due Dates: Due dates con­trol whether a stu­dent sub­mis­sion is flagged as over­due. It’s not required to have a due date on an assign­ment, it’s sim­ply a way to track late sub­mis­sions.
  • Release Con­di­tions: Release con­di­tions let you con­trol when stu­dents can access an assign­ment or oth­er course items based on spe­cif­ic cri­te­ria. For exam­ple, you could make an assign­ment avail­able only after a stu­dent has viewed a par­tic­u­lar mod­ule, com­plet­ed a quiz, or achieved a min­i­mum score on a pre­vi­ous activ­i­ty.
  • Spe­cial Access: This tool allows you to accom­mo­date stu­dents who require access out­side of the assign­men­t’s set para­me­ters (e.g., ear­li­er or lat­er access, extend­ed due date, addi­tion­al attempts or time allot­ted). You can allow cer­tain stu­dents to have Spe­cial Access to an assign­ment or only stu­dents with Spe­cial Access to access the assign­ment. The first case is use­ful if you need to pro­vide accom­mo­da­tions, the sec­ond option is best used for reme­di­al assign­ments.
  • Pass­word: You can add a pass­word require­ment so that stu­dents need to enter a pass­word pri­or to access­ing the quiz.
  • IP Restric­tions: You can set it so that only learn­ers com­ing from IP address­es that meet the defined restric­tions can write the quiz.
  • Ses­sion Restric­tions: You can set it so that each attempt is locked to a sin­gle login ses­sion.

Tim­ing & Dis­play options let you con­trol how stu­dents inter­act with your quiz (time lim­it, pag­ing options, ques­tion shuf­fle, dis­play options).

  • Set time lim­it: You can set the time lim­it in min­utes and decide how the timer is applied to the quiz (e.g., Asyn­chro­nous, Syn­chro­nous) and what hap­pens when the time lim­it expires.
  • Pag­ing: You can choose to have 1 ques­tion dis­played per page, 5 or 10 ques­tions dis­played, all ques­tions dis­played togeth­er, or a page break applied after each sec­tion.
  • Shuf­fle Quiz: You can choose to have ques­tions and sec­tions shuf­fled in a quiz.
  • Dis­play: You can opt to: allow hints, hide ques­tion point val­ues, dis­able email, instant mes­sages and alerts with­in Bright­space.
  • Head­er and Foot­er: You can for­mat the head­er and foot­er of the quiz using an HTML edi­tor.

Create a New Quiz

This video demon­strates how to cre­ate a quiz in the Man­age Quizzes area of Bright­space using the new quiz inter­face in the new con­tent expe­ri­ence.

Associate a Quiz to a Grade Item

This video shows how to take a quiz and asso­ciate it with a new grade item and ensure all set­tings are aligned with pub­lish­ing the grades.

USING Sections and Shuffling Questions

This video shows you how to cre­ate sec­tions and shuf­fle ques­tions with­in a sec­tion and also shuf­fle sec­tions for a quiz. This is using the new quiz expe­ri­ence. This allows for each quiz to be some­what unique for each stu­dent to pre­vent shar­ing of answers.

Quiz EDITNG Environment: A Tour of All the Variables and Settings

This video is a short tour of all the fea­tures of the new quiz expe­ri­ence and the vari­ables and set­tings you can use to cre­ate and edit your quiz.

Quiz with Additional View to Delay Grades and Question Feedback

Watch this video if you’d like to know how to set up your quiz to delay the learn­er grades and any ques­tion feed­back until after the class is com­plete the quiz and/or you have grad­ed open-end­ed ques­tions etc. Note: This is a longer video because it shows you what the stu­dents will see both imme­di­ate­ly upon com­plet­ing the quiz as well as after the addi­tion­al view has been enact­ed and shares with you all the set­tings to set up your quiz.

Edit a Quiz Question During Its Availability

Restore a Quiz Attempt