Create a Quiz

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.

Quizzes and ful­ly under­stand­ing the fea­tures and func­tions, takes time. Please con­sult the infor­ma­tion and videos on this page to learn some of the func­tion­al­i­ty and best prac­tices.

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.

Overview Question Library

  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. NOTE: 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.

Setting Quiz Parameters

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.

  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.

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

Overview Quiz Tool

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.

Question Library: Importing Questions from Quizzes Back to the Question Library

If you cre­ate ques­tions IN the quiz and want to have your quiz ques­tions be part of your ques­tion library (col­lec­tion of all quiz ques­tions), this video shows you how to copy back the quiz ques­tions to the library area for future use.

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