Create a Quiz

1. Navigate to your course and select Activities. Select Quizzes from the drop-down menu.
2. Under the Manage Quizzes tab, select New Quiz.
3. Enter a Quiz Title.
4. Under the Grade Out Of section, there is an option to Edit or Link to an existing item in the Grade Book or Add to Grade Book.
   • If the quiz is Not in Grade Book, Grade Out Of reflects the total points of the questions.
   • If the quiz is In Grade Book, Grade Out Of is the maximum point value of the associated grade item in the Grades tool.
5. Enter a due date for your quiz. If a quiz is submitted after the due date, the submission will be flagged as late. Please note that Brightspace quizzes do not require a Due Date. Start and End Dates are recommended to determine the timeframe for students to take the quiz.
6. Enter a description (optional).

7. Under Questions, you have the following options for adding questions to your quiz:
   • Add Existing – Add an existing question from your question library.
   • Create New – Create a new question, question section, or question pool.
8. When you have finished creating your quiz, select Save and Close. By default, the quiz will be hidden from students. Toggle to Visible to ensure students see the quiz.

Building out your Brightspace Question Library before creating a quiz is recommended and makes it easier to reuse quiz questions across different quizzes and to shuffle/randomly select questions from a set more easily.

To help build out the question library questions can be imported from a text/Word document using an LMS Question Generator tool. USC currently recommends using the Question Generator created by Algonquin College to convert questions into the proper format and import them into Brightspace.

When you create your quiz questions, you will have a variety of question types to choose from. Below is a comprehensive list of the question types available with a summarized explanation.

• True or False – Present a statement for students to select correct or incorrect.
• Multiple Choice – Present a statement or question with a list of possible answers, in which learners must choose the best possible answer.
• Multi-Select – Require students to identify one or more correct answers in a list of possible answers.
• Written Response – Require students to write detailed answers in response to open-ended questions. You can enable students to respond in multiple sentences, paragraph answers, or mathematical explanations and calculations. Users are also able to submit HTML code.
• Short Answer – Require students to create one-word or brief sentence answers in response to open-ended questions.
• Multi-Short Answer – Students must answer a multi-solution question and input their answers into individual input boxes. Their answers are checked against each possible answer stored in the answer fields.
• Fill in the Blanks – Students must fill in one or more missing words for an incomplete sentence, statement, phrase, list, or key terminology.
• Matching – Students select from a set of possible match choices from drop-down lists and correctly pair them with related items.
• Ordering – Require students to arrange a series of items into a correct sequence or order.
• Arithmetic – Enables you to assess users’ knowledge and comprehension of mathematics and number theory.
• Significant Figures – Require students to answer in scientific notation and provide solutions that contain a specified number of significant figures.
• Likert – Measure subjective information such as personal opinions, knowledge, abilities, and attitudes. Likert questions enable you to create surveys to measure the intensity of students’ feelings towards statements presented to them.

Learn more about Question Types here.

Availability Dates & Conditions

• Select the Start Date field to set the quiz’s start date, then enter the date and time.
• Select the End Date field to set an End Date for the quiz, and enter the date and time.
• You can add Availability Dates to Calendar.
• Release Conditions – Students cannot access or view the quiz unless they meet the release conditions.
• Special Access – Special Access allows quizzes to be available to only a select group of users or individualized due dates for specific users.
• Password – Only students who enter this password will be granted access to take this quiz.
• IP Restrictions – Only learners from IP addresses that meet the defined restrictions can take the quiz.

Timing & Display

• Time Limit – To set a time limit for students to complete the quiz, select Time Limit and enter the number of minutes allocated to complete the quiz.
  • Quiz Start – Choose the quiz timing as either Asynchronous or Synchronous. Choosing Synchronous will allow students to start when the quiz start date opens.
  • When the Time Limit expires – You can determine what happens when the time limit expires, and a student is still working on their attempt.
  • Paging – You can determine how questions are displayed as students take the quiz.
  • Shuffle Quiz – Select this option to shuffle your quiz questions.
  • Allow Hints – Select this option if you want to allow hints. Hints display extra information about a question to students when taking a quiz.
  • Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace – If you select this option, students cannot access Brightspace Email, Instant Messages, or their alerts if they have a quiz attempt in progress.
  • Header and Footer – Instructors can customize how their quiz looks.

Attempts & Completion

• Attempts – By default, one attempt is selected. To edit the number of attempts, select Manage Attempts and configure the following:
  • Attempts allowed – Select the number of attempts from the drop-down menu.
  • Overall Grade Calculation – To edit how the overall grade is calculated by choosing one of the options.
• Category – If you have set up quiz categories, you can select a quiz category from the drop-down menu.
• Notification Email – If you want to receive notifications when a quiz is attempted, enter an email address or multiple addresses separated by a comma.

Evaluation & Feedback

• Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion. Students can view their evaluated attempt immediately upon submission when this setting is enabled.
  • Note: If you choose this option, students will see a zero score for written responses in the Grade Book. Learn more here.
• Synchronize to grade book on published. With this setting enabled, the student’s overall grade and feedback will be automatically published in the grade book once evaluated.
• When published, display to learners. Select the Attempt Grade checkbox to make the attempt grades visible to learners. Use the drop-down menu to select visibility settings for what will be displayed when the evaluation is published.

Customize Quiz Results Display

• Select Additional View to create a custom view.
• You can set a submission view, which will be visible at a set date and time or a particular number of minutes after the student completes their quiz. You can also display a custom message, determine whether the student’s grade is shown, and decide which questions students are and are not allowed to view. 
• Options for student access to quiz questions include Don’t Show, All Questions, Incorrect Questions only with Learner’s Responses, and Correct Questions only with Student’s Responses.
• If students can view some quiz questions, more options will be presented. These options include the display of correct answers, student responses, learner grades, and standards.