How do I create a Quiz?

Please note: These instructions have been updated for the “New” Quiz Creation Experience (July 2023)

Create a New Quiz from Content

1. Go to Content in your course

2. Navigate to the module where you want the quiz to appear

3. Click on Upload/Create button

4. Select New Quiz from the dropdown menu

You will be taken to the Quiz Setup tool

Create a New Quiz from the Quizzes Tool

1. Go to Quizzes tool (Course Admin > Quizzes)

2. Click New Quiz

You will be taken to the Quiz Setup tool

Enter a Quiz Name
Decide if you want to Add to Gradebook (recommended)
Add a Due Date (optional)
Add a Description (instructions for students to view before they start the Quiz)
Add questions (Create New)– see below
Complete additional settings using the accordion menus on the right (Availability, Timing, Attempts, Evaluation and Feedback)
Change Visibility
Click Save and Close

Adding Questions

Click Create New and choose the question type from the dropdown menu
Add the question text and identify the correct answer
Click Save, or, Save and New, or Save and Copy
Continue adding the remaining questions to your exam
When finished, click Save and Close

Example of a multiple choice question – creation screen

Quiz Settings (right-hand side of Quiz Setup interface)

Availability Dates and Conditions

Start Date: When the quiz can be accessed by students

End Date: When the quiz can no longer be accessed by students

Display in Calendar: Checking this box will show the Start and End dates in the calendar in addition to the Due Date which will appear in the calendar regardless.

Release Conditions: Release conditions prevent students from taking a quiz unless another action/task has been met.

Manage Special Access: Allows you to make a Quiz only available to a select group of users or give an individual different a different due date, access date, or allocated time and attempts.

Password: Only users who enter this provided password will be able to access the quiz

A note about the End Date Students must begin their quiz before the End Date. However, note that students can work past the End Date if the enforced time limit still has time remaining. However, if the student leaves the quiz or is booted from the quiz for any reason (loss of power, browser freezes) they will not be able to re-enter because the time period for accessing the quiz will have expired.

Timing & Display

Timing Settings:

No Time Limit: quiz is not timed

Recommended Time Limit: instructor provides an amount of time that is recommended for the quiz, but nothing happens if the student exceeds that time limit

Enforced Time Limit: instructor provides an amount of time that students are allotted for the quiz (Note, the timer starts the moment the student enters the quiz; it is NOT based on the instructor-set Start Date of the quiz)

Coming soon: Auto-submit of the quiz. Currently (prior to July 2023), students must submit the quiz with an enforced time limit. The quiz does not auto-submit. However, after July 2023, instructors can select whether the quiz should auto-submit after the allotted time expires.

Paging:

All questions displayed together: all questions appear on 1 page

1 question per page**: only 1 question per page is displayed, and students must answer 1 question at a time.

5 questions per page**: 5 questions are displayed at a time, and students must answer 1 question at a time.

10 questions per page**: 10 questions displayed at a time, and students must answer 1 question at a time.

Add page break after each section**: Each section is displayed on a new page

Legacy paging: If a quiz was created using the legacy quiz creation experience, other paging options were available and will be kept until the instructor edits it. You will not be able to go back to legacy paging once you choose another paging option.

**The instructor can determine whether students can jump around or must complete it chronologically

Shuffle Quiz

Select this option if you want each student to see a different order of questions

Display:

Allow Hints: If you added “Hints” to questions during the creation process, you must select this option in order for students to see them.

Disable Email, Instant Messages and Alerts within Brightspace (not recommended): please use caution when using this setting as it disables internal functionality and can cause unnecessary confusion. This does not inhibit students from accessing other tools outside of brightspace, so its usefulness is limited.

MORE NOTES/WARNINGS ABOUT END DATES AND TIME RESTRICTIONS

End Date: If a student starts the quiz just before the end date, that student is in and there is no ability for the system to kick them out/stop them from working past the set End Date. The End Date simply controls when a student can click on and Start a quiz. It doesn’t do anything to people who have already started.

Time Limit: The time limit countdown on a Quiz starts as soon as a student starts the quiz. It is not dependent on the Start Time or End Time set on the Quiz date restrictions/availability. No matter when a student starts the quiz, they will get the full allotted time limit set on the quiz. Also, its important to note that once the timer starts, it does not stop. So if a student leaves the quiz in the middle of taking it, the timer will continue counting. It does not “pause” until the student returns to continue the quiz. If there is a time limit set on a quiz, the student is expected to complete it in one sitting.

Attempts and Completion

Attempts:

The default setting is 1 attempt allowed. You can change this under Manage Attempts and your options include:

1 attempt

Unlimited***

2 to 10 attempts***

***If you select unlimited or an option for than 1 attempt, you will also select the “overall grade calculation” (ie: Highest grade is kept) and whether on subsequent attempts, if the student should re-take the whole quiz, or will only need to re-take the questions they got incorrect.

Notification Email (not recommended): entering your email address will send an email to that email address each time a quiz is submitted by a student.

Evaluation and Feedback

Auto-publish attempt results immediately:

Default ON: Only de-select this option if you want all student attempts to remain ‘ungraded’ and scores unviewable.

Synchronize to grade book on publish:

Default ON: This is dependent on the quiz being added to the gradebook, and will automatically send the scores there upon student submission. Only de-select this if you don’t want the scores to be sent to the gradebook.

When Published, display to learners:

Default-Attempt Grade and No Questions (This means student will see their score (overall %) after they submit (assuming the first box is checked), but they will not see which questions they got right or wrong.

Other Options:

- - - Incorrect questions only, with correct answers
    - Incorrect questions only, without correct answers
    - All questions, with correct answers
    - All questions, without correct answers

After you have added questions to your quiz and customized your settings, click Save and Close.

Your Quiz will appear under your course’s Quizzes tool. You can add the quiz to Content using the Existing Activities menu, select Quizzes, and then select the existing Quiz from the list.

How do I add a random pool of questions to my Quiz?

Purpose: If you have a large number of questions in your question library and you want to create a quiz where a random set of those questions displays for each student, you will use a Question Pool.

On the Quiz Creation page, under the Questions section, select Create New > Question Pool
Give the Question Pool a name (example: Chapter 1 pool)
Under, Number of Questions to Select, enter the number of questions you want to display in your quiz for this pool. (example: if you want to give students 10 random questions selected from a pool of 50 questions, you would enter the number 10)
For Points per Question enter the number of points each question in the pool should be worth (example: 1 point per question)
Click Browse Question Library to select all the questions you want to be a part of this specific pool. Note, you can have more than one ‘Question Pool’ in a quiz. Find the source (either your library or your quizzes), then check off the questions that you want to be a part of this pool. Then click Import.
A list of the questions that you selected as part of pool will display on the page. Click Save when finished and return to the Quiz Creation page to finish your quiz setup.

How to set Quiz Accommodations at the course level

You can set quiz time accommodations for students at the course level.

Prior to June 2021, quiz time accommodations could only be set at the quiz level, meaning an instructor would have to edit each quiz individually in order to add “Special Access” settings for students requiring additional time accommodations.

Now, those accommodations can be set at the course level for a student from the Classlist.

Use Case: A student has accommodations for additional time (ie. 50%) on quizzes, tests, exams.

Instructions

1. In your course, click on Classlist
2. Click on the dropdown arrow next to the student’s name and select Edit Accommodations
3. Enter the amount of additional time the student has accommodations for (ie 1.5 for 50% or time-and-a-half)
4. Click Save

Once accommodations are set, you will see an icon next to the student’s name and when you hover your mouse over the icon it will indicate that user has accommodations set.

For every quiz the student takes in that class, they will have the additional time accommodation automatically applied.

Note The visual indicator that lets you know an Accommodation has been setup is only visible from the Classlist or the View User Progress page. It will not show up on the Quizzes page for instructors.

June 4, 2021/by Elissa Tobin

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How do I proctor a remote online exam with Respondus?

Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor are now available in all Brightspace courses as optional settings when creating online assessments.

What is Respondus?

Respondus is an assessment tool company specializing in online remote exam g security. Respondus Monitor is a ‘proctored remote exam’ whereas LockDown Browser locks the testing environment.

Please note Chromebooks are now supported. The setup is a little different for users with Chromebooks so please review the additional settings below.

Respondus LockDown Browser®

is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Brightspace. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked out of these functions until they submit their exam for grading. It is based on the same system components and settings that make up Internet Explorer (Windows) and Safari (Mac) browsers already installed on computers. Respondus LockDown Browser is both Windows and Macintosh compatible.

When enabled for a quiz, the student receives a prompt to download the Respondus LockDown Browser application and install it before they can access the quiz. When the student begins taking the quiz, the student is locked into the quiz until it is submitted for grading.

Respondus LockDown Browser prevents the student from:

- - Opening additional browser windows
  - Using other browsers
  - Accessing other websites
  - Opening additional applications or files
  - Using a printer

LockDown Browser Resources

Respondus Monitor ®

builds upon the power of LockDown Browser, using a student’s webcam and industry-leading video analytics to detect & deter cheating during non-proctored exams. When this feature is enabled for a quiz, students are required to use a webcam and microphone with LockDown Browser. After the quiz is complete, an instructor can review details of the assessment, even the recorded videos. Requiring the use of Respondus Monitor is useful when giving remote exams without a live proctor.

Monitor Resoureces

Instructors can choose to use Respondus LockDown Browser with or without Respondus Monitor feature enabled when choosing their LDB testing settings in their Brightspace course.

Instructors do not have to download and install the LockDown Browser software, only students need this installed. For faculty, they simply use the LockDown Browser tool integrated into Brightspace to set up their proctored exam settings and follow the on-screen instructions in Brightspace.

Using with Brightspace

You will set your lockdown browser settings after you have created your Quiz

1. Go to Quizzes

2. Click on LockDown Brower tab
3. Click the dropdown next to the name of the assessment
4. Click Settings
5. Click Require respondus Lockdown browser for this exam…

For additional settings such as adding the chromebook option:

6. Click Advanced Settings
7. Click Allow students to use LockDown Browser for Chromebook(beta) .

8. Select any other settings you desire
9. Click “Save and Close“

Note You will have to accept "Application Respondus v4.0 by Respondus Inc is trying to access your information." to Continue.

In the context menu next to your selected quiz, choose Settings.

Recommendations

Inform students to use an Ethernet (wired) Internet connection while taking an exam in Respondus Lockdown Browser. They are more likely to run into problems due to dropped/interrupted WiFi connections than when using a wired connection. If they do lose their Internet connection during the exam, it will lock up the browser and not allow them to save answers, move on to other questions, submit or exit the exam.
Create a non-graded, practice exam that requires students to use LockDown Browser. This will familiarize students with the application and ensure everything is installed correctly before beginning a graded exam.

Students

When students access the quiz, they will be prompted to Launch Lockdown Browser. or Download the Lockdown Browser

https://download.respondus.com/lockdown/download.php?ID=482287393

If prompted, CCC 9 digit institutional Code: 482287393

Tips

This sample text below can be used in your course or syllabus. It explains that students must use LockDown Browser for their online tests as well as the need for a webcam if enabling Respondus Monitor.
- Sample Text to Provide Students for Using LockDown Browser(LDB) for Online Exams:
  This course requires the use of LockDown Browser (LDB) for online exams. Watch this short video to get a basic understanding of LockDown Browser and the webcam feature (which may be required for some exams). Students may contact Respondus LockDown Browser Support for technical assistance if needed and/or access this 1-page “Student Quick Start Guide”.
  1. First, download and install the LockDown Browser software (https://download.respondus.com/lockdown/download.php?ID=482287393)
  CCC 9 digit institutional Code: 482287393
  *You may watch this video tutorial on “How do I install LockDown Browser” if needed.
  2. To take an online test, start LockDown Browser software installed on your computer. Once the LDB browser has been started, you will be prompted to login to Brightspace through the LDB browser and navigate to your desired course and desired exam. (You won’t be able to access a LDB required exam with a standard web browser.) For additional details on using LockDown Browser, review this Student Quick Start Guide (PDF).
  *Be sure you are not connected to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) as the LockDown Browser wiill NOT work through a VPN.
  3. Finally, when taking an online exam, follow these guidelines:
  - Select a location where you won’t be interrupted
  - Before starting the test, know how much time is available for it and be sure that you’ve allotted sufficient time to complete it
  - Turn off all mobile devices, phones, etc. and don’t have them within reach
  - Clear your area of all external materials — books, papers, other computers, or other devices.
  - Remain at your desk or workstation for the duration of the test
  - LockDown Browser will prevent you from accessing other websites or applications.
  - Depending on the settings selected by your instructor, you may not be able to exit the test until all questions are completed and submitted.

Caveats

Traditional timed, proctored exams are possible remotely using the tools available in Brightspace with Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor. Before committing to remote proctored exams, below are some considerations:

Stress
Planning
Access to technology
Privacy
Accommodations

However, proctored remote exams have several drawbacks:

They are often even more stressful for students than in-person proctored exams, which can negatively impact student performance.
They require substantial planning and setup on the part of the instructor and the student, and may generate many “false positive” flags that must be reviewed by an instructor after the exam.
Not all students have access to the appropriate technology to use services like Respondus Monitor that requires a webcam; instructors will have to make accommodations for such students.
The technical infrastructure of services like Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor has not been utilized at this scale before, so planning must include what to do if the proctoring service crashes during the exam.
Students may have privacy concerns about third-party recorded remote proctoring. Unlike when students agree to the use of such systems when they register for online courses, students did not agree to remote instruction when they registered for spring 2020 and instructors will need to make accommodations for these students.
LockDown Browser features do not address all access needs for students with approved accommodations. If faculty intend to use Respondus LockDown Browser (with or without Monitor), they should consult Disability Access Center for those students who have identified themselves to faculty for accommodations. That way, students can avert any accusations of cheating that may be due to use of approved assistive technology or accessibility issues.

For these reasons, during this time we recommend using alternatives to timed, proctored exams wherever possible. Large courses reliant on in-person exams should consider open-book exams or frequent low-stakes assessments as alternative assessment strategies that are relatively easy to grade.

Please note that in normal circumstance students should be made aware of need for a webcam BEFORE course begins as part of their required course materials if requiring the use of Respondus Monitor. In this current continuity of instruction period, instructors and departments should manage and communicate student webcam needs on an individual basis. Not all students have access to the appropriate technology to use services like Respondus Monitor that requires a webcam; instructors will have to make accommodations for such students.

Respondus Monitor (LockDown Browser +Webcam) is NOT a live synchronous proctoring service. Students are recorded while taking the exam and instructors are alerted after the recoding is complete to any red flags that may have occurred during the testing sessions. Instructors will be able click on thumbnail recordings to review footage of flagged portions of students recorded testing sessions for review.
For a synchronous live recording of a testing session, instructors could use Zoom to schedule a Zoom session for the test time for students to join at the same time and monitor students in gallery view while taking the test. If students are unable to meet synchronously, accommodations would need to be made.

Testing Alternatives

Significant portions of the guidance in these pages are adapted with permission from Rutgers University, Indiana University, University of Minnesota, UNC-Chapel Hill & Willmington, and NC State University’s Keep Teaching sites.

How do I use a Quiz Generator to create quiz questions?

Use Quiz Generators to bulk import your quiz questions that are in your Word document.

To get started, click on the following link:

https://plato.algonquincollege.com/BrightspaceQuizGenerator/

You will see the options:

1. Quiz Name
2. Question type
3. This is where you will paste the questions in their respective format (format guide below)
4. Generate Test

If you get the following error message when you generate your test questions.

Simply scroll down and hover over the questions in red, the system will alert you as to what is wrong with the question format.

Click on the following link to view with all of the question format types available:

https://plato.algonquincollege.com/BrightspaceQuizGenerator/assets/files/QuestionTypes.pdf

Below is an example an example of the format you need to follow for multiple choice questions. You will need to add an asterisk (*) before the letter or number of the correct answer as shown below.

Upload the generated quiz file into your BrightSpace course

Follow the steps below:

– Click on Assessments > Quizzes
– Click on New Quiz
– Name Quiz and scroll down
– Click on Add/Edit Questions
– Click on the drop down arrow next to the import option and select “Upload File”

- A window will pop up, click on browse files to find the test question file or simply drag and drop the test file.

When the file is done uploading, you can click on review to select which questions you want to upload or can select “Import All”

– Import the question file into the Question Library

– Create a quiz in content

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April 29, 2020/by Elissa Tobin

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How do I create a quiz from Word document?

Create a csv/zip of your quiz questions

Use a quiz question generator.

The quiz generators cut down on the OKs and SUBMITs, most say they work for Bb, but I’ve found they also work for Brightspace, too.
Follow the Exact syntax for your chosen generator(some work better than others). It will require you to use your Word quiz .doc, *ing the correct answer, cut&paste, and use a quiz generator. Please refer to the generator rules

Import the question file

into the Question Library

- How do I import quiz questions into my Question Library?

Create a quiz in content

- How do I create a quiz placeholder in my course content?

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Troubleshoot Quizzes

How do I Preview a quiz?
Is your quiz associated or tied to grades?
- Is this next to the quiz in the Quizzes tool? In Grades->Manage Grades is there an association to the quiz in the quiz Grade Item?
How do I identify why my quizzes do not automatically show in Grades?
How do I submit a quiz attempt on behalf of my student?

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How do I create an extra credit or bonus question on a quiz?

Quizzes can include bonus (or extra credit) questions in them. Questions that won’t hurt the student’s overall score if they don’t get them correct, but can improve the student’s score if they do get them correct.

Select the question(s) that is extra credit (bonus)
Click More Actions and select Toggle Bonus from the dropdown menu
The text “BONUS” appears under the point value of the question (far right)
De-select the question(s) when done.
Click Save

A note about points The questions that are 'bonus' will not calculate into your total points for the quiz. For example, if it is a 40 question quiz and each question is worth 1 point, and you have two Bonus questions, your total point value will appear as 38 points instead of 40 points because students will be able to get 2 points extra credit for those two bonus questions. ie: 40/38.

How do I publish quiz grades?

Sometimes you may need to refresh your quiz attempt grades

Go to your Quizzes tool
Click on the dropdown for the quiz you have selected and select Grade
Click the “Publish” icon so that all of the scores get checked/unchecked
Click SAVE
Then click the publish icon again to re-check off all of the scores
Click SAVE
Check the quiz Grade Item in you Grades tool.

How do I print a paper quiz?

1. Go to the Quizzes tool

2. From the selected quiz’s contextual menu, click Preview

3. Start the test

4. Highlight all of the questions.

Note All questions must be on the same page. If you choose to create a new submission view, you may wish to go back and change your submission views settings.

Use Word

1. Copy all of the questions

2. Paste it into a Word document

3. Edit

4. Print the Word document.

OR

Use Chrome

1. After you’ve highlighted the questions, select Print from the browser menu

You may also create a new submission from the Quiz tool-> Submission tab.

Create a New Quiz from Content

Create a New Quiz from the Quizzes Tool

Adding Questions

Quiz Settings (right-hand side of Quiz Setup interface)

Availability Dates and Conditions

Timing & Display

Attempts and Completion

Evaluation and Feedback

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Stress

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Privacy

Accommodations

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