Brightspace: How to Create and Manage a Quiz

1. On the Create Quiz page, click Create New; from the menu, select New Question.

2. Click the question type from the list and complete the question details.

• Question types include: Multiple Choice, True/False, Fill in the Blanks, Multi-Select, Matching, Ordering, Written Response, Short Answer, Arithmetic, Significant Figures, and Multi-Short Answer.
• Detailed instructions on how to create each individual questions type are available.

3. After you have created a quiz question, do one of the following:

• Click Save and New to create another quiz question.
• Click Save and Copy to save the quiz question and make a copy of the quiz question to add to your quiz.
• Click Save to return to the Create Quiz page.

New quiz questions are added to your quiz.

To set a start date and end date

1. From the New Quiz page, expand the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion.
2. Set a Start Date and an End Date. Check the box next to Add Availability Dates to Calendar if desired.

To set release conditions

You can add release conditions to your quiz. Release conditions are conditions that must be met for a quiz to be made visible to learners. For example, you can set your quiz to only be available to learners when they have submitted an assignment.

1. From the New Quiz page, expand the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion.

2. Under Release Conditions, click Add Release Condition and select Create New.

3. Under Condition Type, select the condition that must be met.

4. Under Condition Details, select the details with how this condition must be met.

5. Click Create.

6. If you do not wish to configure your Quiz further, toggle the quiz to Visible and click Save and Close.

A new release condition is added to your quiz. Release conditions can be reused in future quizzes. 

To make your quiz available to select users

1. From the New Quiz page, expand the Availability Dates & Conditions accordion.

2. Click Manage Special Access.

3. Select one of the following options:

• Allow selected users special access to this quiz.
• Allow only users with special access to see this quiz.

4. To add users, click Add Users to Special Access.

5. To give users that have special access a different quiz due date, select the Has Due Date check box and set the due date for the quiz.

6. Under Availability, select the Has Start Date and Has End Date check boxes and set the date availability for when you want users to have special access to the quiz.

7. Under Timing, select if you wish to override the time limit associated with the quiz for this user.

8. Under Attempts, select if you wish to override the number of attempts associated with the quiz for this user.

• If the user has more than one attempt allowed, you can select if you only want the additional attempt(s) available based on score of the original attempt of the quiz. You may also select unlimited attempts.

9. In the Users area, select the users you want to give special access to.

10. Click Save and then click Save and Close.

11. If you do not wish to configure your quiz further, toggle the quiz to Visible and click Save and Close.

Additional Settings

You may enter a password if you wish to restrict access further.

Note: IP Restrictions is not a recommended setting.

Adjust Quiz Timing

1. From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display accordion.

2. Select Set time limit.


 

3. In the Time Limit field, specify the length of time for the quiz in minutes.

4. Click Timer Settings.

5. In the Timing pop-up, under Quiz Start, select one of the following:

• If you want to set up a quiz that starts and ends at the same time for all learners, select Synchronous: Timer starts on the start date.
  Note: If no start date and time is set for the synchronous quiz, the No Start date set alert appears under the selected option, and you cannot save the quiz. The Due Date option is disabled for synchronous quizzes.

• If you want to set up a quiz with flexibility for learners to take a quiz in their own time, select Asynchronous: Timer starts when the learner launches the quiz.

6. Under When The Time Limit Expires, select one of the following:

• If you want to automatically submit the quiz when the time limit is exceeded, select Automatically submit quiz attempt.
• If you want learners to be able to continue working after the time limit, select Flag as time limit exceeded and allow the learner to continue working.
• If you do not want to enforce the time limit, select Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced.

7. Click OK.
 

Adjust Quiz Display

1. From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display accordion.

2. The following options are available:

• Paging: Choose how questions are displayed on the quiz.
• Shuffle Quiz: To shuffle quiz questions and sections, select Shuffle Quiz.
• Display:
  • To disable separate types of notifications, select Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace.
  • To show your quiz hints, select Allow Hints.
• Header and Footer: Click Manage Header and Footer to create a header or footer for your quiz.
  Note: The Header and Footer each have a character limit of 65,535 characters.

3. If you do not wish to configure your quiz further, toggle the quiz to Visible and click Save and Close.

1. From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Attempts & Completion accordion.

2. The following options are available:

• Attempts: Click Manage Attempts to set how many times a learner can take a quiz.
• Category: Select a category for your quiz from the drop-down menu.
• Notification Email: Enter email addresses for notification emails when a learner completes a quiz.

1. From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Evaluation & Feedback accordion.

2. The following options are available:

• Deduct points for incorrect answers: While this feature is turned on, users will receive negative points for incorrect answers.
• Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion: Publish quiz results for learners immediately after they complete the quiz.
• Synchronize to grade book on publish: Sync this quiz’s grades to Grade Book. The option is grayed if you have not set up Grade Book.
• When published, display to learners: Click Attempt grade to display learners’ attempt grade. Click the question display drop-down menu to select which questions are displayed to learners after publishing the quiz.
• Customize Quiz Results Display: Create a custom dialog for learners after they finish their quiz. You can customize the Primary View that will appear immediately after learners complete their quiz and a Secondary View that will appear later based on a date set by you.
• Learning Objectives: If your program has set up Learning Objectives, you can Click Manage Learning Objectives to associate learning objectives with your quiz.

3. If you do not wish to configure your quiz further, toggle the quiz to Visible and click Save and Close.