Quiz Overview:

1. There are several steps involved in creating a quiz for your course. Each step is described in greater detail in the sections that follow.
   
   1. Create your quiz questions. You can create questions in either (A) the Question Library, or (B) directly in the quiz, Respondus, or other quiz software.
   
   2. Create a quiz by: (A) Defining a quiz name and general properties, (B) establishing the quiz restrictions, (C) establishing the quiz attempts, (D) establishing the quiz reports, and (D) adding questions to your quiz and setting up a quiz layout.
   
   3. Preview the quiz.
   • While it is also possible to create quiz questions from within a quiz, rather than in the Question Library, it is strongly recommended that you create all of your questions in the Library and then add them to your quizzes. This will allow you to reuse questions in multiple quizzes, Self Assessments and Surveys.
   • Use the Question Library to insert questions into a randomizing section. Random sections pull their questions from the Library. When creating a quiz, you can specify a list of questions from which the iLearn system will randomly choose questions for each student that takes the quiz.

Question Library

The Question Library is a central repository for your quiz questions. When you create questions in the Question Library you can reuse them in any number of quizzes. Using the Question Library and this feature helps you to avoid tedious re-inputting of questions.

To access the Question Library from the main Quizzes page:

Click the Question Library icon .

The Question Library page displays.

There are three ways to populate your question library with quiz questions:

1. Create questions within the Question Library or from within a quiz (see Question Types).

2. Import questions using Desire2Learn's text format file (see the Importing Questions from a Text File section).

3. Import questions using Respondus software or basic course import (see the Importing Quiz Questions from Respondus.

Managing Questions and Sections(Folders) in the Question Library

Sections are like file folders in your Question Library. They help you to organize your questions. You might choose to create a "multiple choice" section that includes all of your multiple choice questions, or a section containing all questions related to a specific topic such as a "Book Chapter"..

Sections are also helpful when you are creating a quiz. Instead of importing questions one at a time, you can import a whole section of questions into a quiz at once.

To create a New Section in the Question Library:

Select Section from the Create New drop-down list and click Go . .

To create a New Question in the Question Library:

Select the applicable question type from the Create New drop-down list and click Go . For further information, refer to Question Types.

After you have created or imported quiz sections and questions, you can then manage them in the Question Library.

The following options are displayed at the top of the Question Library page once you have created sections or questions (detailed instructions are below the image:

• Import - Use to import questions from an existing quiz or text file.
• Create New - See Creating Quiz Sections / Creating Quiz Questions.
• Move - (Appears when you have added and selected questions or sections.)
• Delete - (Appears when you have added and selected questions/sections.)
• Order - (Appears when you have added and selected questions/sections.)
• Edit Values - Use to quickly edit the points and the difficulty level of questions.
• Display Options -used to control what you are seeing on this page.

To change the position of an item in the list:

1. Check the box beside a question or folder.

2. Click the Order icon at the top of the page.

A new page displays with a list of questions and sections.

4. Select a question or section from the list and use the Up and Down arrows to move it to the desired position in the list. Repeat this step for each item until you have achieved the desired order.

5. Click Save at the top of the screen.

To move a question inside another section:

1. Select the box beside one or more questions

2. Click on the Move icon.

A new page displays with a list of sections in your Question Library.

3. Click on the name of the section you want to move the questions into. It is automatic and there is nothing to Save.

To delete a question or section:

1. Select the box beside the question or section.

2. Click the Delete icon.

3. A Pop Up Window will ask you to confirm the Delete, click Okay. There is nothing to Save.

You can edit the appearance of the Question Library using the Display Options link:

1. Click Display Options in the top-right corner of the Question Library page.

The Display Options page displays.

2. Uncheck Show Sections Sidebar if you do not want to see the area on the left of the Question Library that shows a list of sections in your library.

3. Select a Header Display type from the drop-down list. This feature controls how the links along the top of the Question Library are displayed.

• Text and Icons : show both the text and icons for each link.
• Text Only : shows only the text for each link.
• Icons Only : shows only the icons for each link.

4. Check View Questions in Popup if you want questions to open in a new window when you click on them, rather than opening in the main Question Library page.

Also, from the main Question Library page, you have the following options:

1. Select the View Question icon beside a question to see how it will appear in a quiz, how it will be marked, feedback comments, and where this question is used. You can also quickly enter the question-edit area by clicking the Edit icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

2. Click the Edit icon beside a question or click on the question title to make changes to the question.

3. Click the Edit icon beside a section to make changes to the section.

4. Click Edit Values to change the points and difficultly values for your questions. Click Save to update your changes.

Note The Difficulty level feature allows instructors to visually organize and compare questions. For example, after assigning a specific difficulty value to a number of questions you can sort and view the questions by their assigned difficulty value to ensure consistency. It has no influence on, which questions will be used in a Random Section with in the Quiz.

Creating Quiz Sections

You can create quiz sections to organize your questions into folders. This can be done in the Question Library or during the creation of a new quiz (in the Layout/Questions tab by clicking Add/Edit Questions). Both of these areas are identical in functionality: one creates folders within the Question Library, while the other creates folders within a quiz.

Example Scenario : You want to create a quiz in which the first five questions all refer to the same diagram, and you want to repeat the diagram before each question. To do this you can simply create a section that contains the first five questions, add the image (as in step 6 below), and set the Display Options for the section to "Display message and image" and select "repeat section message and image before each questions." Note that this will also repeat any text in the Message field before all of the questions.

To create a section, from within a quiz go to the Layout/Question tab, and then click Add/Edit Questions.

1. From the Create New drop-down list select Section and click GO .

The Add Section page displays.

2. Type the name of your section in the Section Name field.

3. Type a Message (optional). This message can be displayed to students at the beginning of the section if you include the section in a quiz. *

4. Type Private Comments (optional). These comments are for your personal use and view only.

5. Add an image to the section (optional).. This image can be used at the beginning of the section, or repeated before each question in the section (refer to step 7). *

6. Set your Display Options: *

• Check Show section name to have the section name displayed in quizzes that contain this section.
• Check Insert a line break after section name to insert some extra space below the section name when displayed in a quiz.
• Check Display message and image to display the text you typed in the Message text box and the image you specified in step 6 (above) in quizzes.

  i. Select Display section message and image once to display these items once at the beginning of the section, or
  ii. Select Repeat section message and image before each question to repeat both the message and image before each question in the section.

7. Click "Expand section feedback" to this section to add feedback to the section. This feature allows you to leave feedback for an entire section when grading the quiz. *

8. Click Save.

Creating Quiz Questions

1. Select the Question Library icon on the quizzes homepage.

Or,

2. From within a quiz, select the Layout/Questions tab and then click Add/Edit Questions.

3. To start creating quiz questions, select the applicable question type from the Create New drop-down list and click Go.

Note It is strongly recommended that you create all your quiz questions from within the Question Library. This gives you the ability to reuse questions on various quizzes and to create random sections within quizzes. For detailed instructions on each Question Type see Question Types.

Importing Quiz Questions from a very specific Text File format

Quiz questions can be created offline using Desire2Learn's text format file. Download the Specific Text file here. The formatting is very specific and if you built the file with out first seeing the sample then you will most likely need to adjust your file.

If you have already created your questions offline using this template, and would like to populate your questions into the library:

1. Select the Quizzes link on your course home navigation bar.

2. Click on the Question Library icon on the Quizzes main page.

3. From with the question library, select the import icon .

4. Select From a Desire2Learn Text Format File from the Import Source drop-down list.

5. If you simply want to download the text file to begin creating your questions, select the CSV Sample File link and Save the file on your computer.

6. To upload a question file you have completed, click Browse and select the file you want upload to the question library. Click Open.

7. Click Save .

Importing Questions from Respondus or Basic Course Import

Respondus is a software application commonly used to create questions offline. When using this software to import your questions into iLearn, the following tips may be useful to you:

1. Within the Respondus application, and before either opening an existing quiz or starting a new one, ensure that the "IMS QTI Personality" is selected from the Current Personality drop-down list under the Start tab in Respondus.

2. If you are attempting to convert an existing Respondus file from WebCT or Blackboard, you will need to convert it to QTI before importing it into iLearn. It is recommended that you save this new file under a new file name if you wish to keep the quiz file under the original personality for future use.

3. Save your changes.

4. Login to Desire2Learn and go to your course.

5. Click on the Content link on your course home navigation bar.

6. Select Import Course link on the right side of the page.

7. Browse and retrieve the QTI file you created in Respondus.

8. Click Next .

9. The system will indicate when the upload is complete.

10. The imported quiz will be in the list of quizzes.

Random Question Sets

Inserting a random section into a quiz ensures that each user will receive a unique set of questions. The random section pulls from a designated pool of questions stored in the Question Library. It is important to note that you can only Import questions that have already been created elsewhere into a random section; you cannot create questions within the random section, nor can you move questions into this section.

After selecting the questions from the library, you can specify how many questions from the random question pool each student should see. The random section will then randomly select this number of questions for each student that takes the quiz. This feature guarantees that each student will receive a unique quiz with different questions.

You must create a quiz before adding a random set of questions. Since random sections can only contain questions from the question library, it is important that you create questions in the Question Library before you create a quiz. You can import questions from a quiz into the Library if you created them in a Quiz and not in the Library first. You can then import the questions into the random section folder of the quiz. There are no limits to the number or type of questions in a random quiz.

Creating a Random Section Folder

1. Select the quiz you would like to add random section and questions to.

2. Select the Layout/Questions tab.

3. Click Add/Edit Questions .

4. From the Create New drop-down list, choose Random Section and click Go.

5. Enter a Section Name (for example, "random short answers").

6. Optional: Add a message to be displayed with the section (for example "The next five questions will involve the Biology and Chemistry unit").

7. Check any applicable Display Options and click Save. If you need more information about Display Options please see Creating Quiz Sections as the Display Options are the same for both

8. A green folder displays in the list of questions/sections for your quiz. Click on the folder you just created.

9. Select the Import icon .

10. Choose the section you want to import questions from in the Source Section drop-down list, or choose Collection Root to view a list of all questions in the Question Library.

11. Check the questions you want to include in the random section. You can automatically select all the questions in one section by checking the box beside the desired folder.

12. Click Save . The questions included in your random folder are now listed in green.

13. At the top of the page, type the number of questions you want each student to see from the random section and assign a mark value for the questions.

14. Click Save .

Note All questions in one random section must have the same point value

Properties

The quiz Properties tab will display by default when you create or edit a quiz.

1. Enter a name for your quiz in the Name field.

2. You can create categories to group your quizzes together by adding categories and selecting them from the Category drop-down list (optional).

3. If you would like this quiz to be linked to a grade item, select the item from the drop-down list, or create a new grade item by clicking the add grade item link. If you choose to use the grade item.

4. Select the box next to Score to allow the quiz attempt score to be seen immediately after the participant has completed and submitted the quiz. Select the box next to Auto Export to Grade to have the score automatically move to the Grades tool. If none of these options are done prior to the quiz being taken by students the quiz is still auto scored, but it will sit in the Grade Quiz area until you come in after the fact and tell the system what to do with the scores (release to students through Submission Views or send to the Grade book).

5. Optional Advanced Properties:

• Check Hints to enable question hints. The actual hints must be set up within each question.
• Enter your email address in the Notification Email field if you would like to be notified when a participant submits a quiz (can be your iLearn or an external email address).
• Check Disable Printing and Right Click and Disable Pager Access to prevent users from utilizing these features that can enable cheating while students are taking the quiz.

6. In the Expand Messages area, enter a message that will be displayed to users prior to quiz availability on the main Quiz Page.

7. Enter text in the Introduction Message field to display a message to users immediately before they start the quiz.

8. If you would like to add a page header and footer, enter the text into the proper fields.

9. Click Save .

Restrictions

Use the options located under the Restrictions tab to set up the availability and timing of your quiz.

1. Click on the Restrictions tab.

2. In the Availability section, you can set the Status and quiz Start and End dates. Users can only see quizzes that have been set to Active status.

3. Choose a Start Date using the drop-down lists or the calendar icon. If you do not want your quiz to a specific start date, choose no set start date .

4. Choose an End Date using the drop-down lists or the calendar icon. If you do not want your quiz to have a specific end date, choose no set end date. If a student starts the quiz before the End Date then they may be able to Submit the quiz after the End Date has occurred. See Late Submissions for more information on this.

5. Add release conditions in the Additional Release Conditions area (if applicable, Release Conditions allow you to set requirements that students must meet before they can view the quiz). By clicking Create and Attach, to build a new condition for the course or Attach Existing if the Condition has already been used some where else in the course such as Content or Discussions.

Example You could create a release condition that requires students to view a certain content topic before they can view the quiz or achieve a certain score on a previous grade Item. For more information see Conditional Release.

9. In the Timing section, set a time limit for your quiz by typing the applicable number of minutes in the Time Limit field. The default time limit is 120 minutes.

10. Choose to Enforce the time limit or Show a Clock by checking the corresponding boxes.

11. Type a Grace Period in the text field. This value determines how many minutes the user has after the time limit has expired to submit their quiz before it is flagged as late.

12. Late Submissions:

• Select Allow Normal Submissions to let users submit quizzes even if the time limit and grace period have expired. Submissions after the grace period will be flagged as late, but still auto graded if this is how you set up the Properties Tab.

• If you select Use Late Limit and select an amount of time, users are given a grade of zero if they submit the quiz after the time limit + grace period + late limit period. You can then go to Grade Quiz, find the student's Attempt, click it and then click Re-Calculate to allow for the Quiz to be graded and the results to be kept.

• Select Auto-Submit Attempt to have the system automatically submit a quiz after the specified time limit and grace period have expired. Once all time is expired the next time the student clicks SAVE it will force the system to submit it automatically and grade the quiz.

13. Click Save .

Note When the Auto-Submit Attempt option is active, the system submits all questions saved before the time limit plus the Grace period, has expired. However, any questions that have not been saved before this time limit has expired, even if they have been answered, will be submitted. Participants need to save their answers before the time limit expires.

Special Access

Use the Special Access feature to override the availability and timing settings of a quiz for specified individuals. Special access is found in the Restrictions tab of a quiz.

1. Click on the Restrictions tab.
2. Click the Add Special Access button . The Add Special Access page displays.
3. Fill out this screen the same way you did for the rest of the class.
4. Ensure that Assign special access period is checked.
5. Check the boxes beside the students you want to assign special access to in the User List. You can also Sort your students by Sections and then assign a Special Access to an entire section. For example, set a different due date for each section based on the day the section has their lab.
6. Click Save. The Add Special Access page closes and your new special access item appears under Special Access in the Restrictions tab.

Example in Action: Special Access accommodates students with special testing needs or students that deserve a make up.

• Increase the quiz time limit for special-needs users.
• Allow individual users to have different start and end dates.
• Change the quiz availability dates for a make-up quiz.

Because the quiz can only appear one way to students, they will see it with the regular Restrictions unless they are specifically chosen in the Special Access. On the top of the Restrictions Tab there is a check box called " restrict to those with special access below ", if this is checked then only students with Special Access see this quiz, If this is NOT checked then all students see the quiz with either regular Restrictions or the over riding Special Access if they were chosen.

 

Attempts

Here you can specify Number of Attempts and Overall Grade Calculation :

1. Click on the Attempts tab.
2. Choose the number of attempts allowed from the drop-down list.
3. Choose an Overall Grade Calculation from the drop-down list.
4. Click Save.

Activities

Activities are a way to tie together certain assessment tools with Competencies and Rubrics.

You can ignore Activities unless your department is participating in a Competency for a degree or certificate program in iLearn.

Submission Views

Use the Submission Views tab to define what information students will see after they submit the quiz attempt.

Example: Do you the students to see what they got wrong immediately after the quiz is submitted, should it display the correct answers or should it contain the student's responses?

If you are using multiple attempts or if you just want to release the information after the Quiz Period is over then you can click Add Additional View and apply a date restriction to the Submission View. You can also change the Submission View after the Quiz period is over.

Click the Submission Views' tab within a quiz and click on the Default View or the Add Additional View button.

Type a Message to display to students.

Click Yes and choose an option from the Show Questions list:

• Show questions answered incorrectly : Only shows students questions that they answered incorrectly.
• Show questions answered correctly : Only shows students questions that they answered correctly.
• Show all questions without user responses : Shows all of the quiz questions the student did not answer.
• Show all questions with user responses : Shows all of the quiz questions to the student that they answered.
• Show question answers : Shows the answers next to each Question that appears. Answers will not appear for Questions that are not displayed.

Or, click No to not show any questions to students after they submit their quiz.

Check Show class average and/or Show score distribution to display these statistics to students after they submit their quiz. If you are using more than one Submission View then the newest View will supercede the other views. Remember to click Save when you are done and then click Go Back to Submission Views so that you can continue setting up the quiz.

Reports

Reports allow you to gather information on how students have performed on your quiz. Reports are different from quiz statistics because they allow you to collect more types of information and are printable. .

• Click on the Reports Setup tab .
• Click Add Report to create a new report, or click on the name of an existing report to edit it.

The New Report page displays.

• Type a Report Name.
• Select which type of report you want to create:
  • Question Statistics : An "overall" report, showing the class average, score distribution, and the percentage of correct responses for each question.
  • Question Details : A more segmented report showing a breakdown of all the responses received for each question and the average grade received on each question.
  • User Statistics : provides class average and score distribution information to help you see how your class performed as a whole.
  Attempt Details: allows you to view each user's actual quiz.

• In the Release area, select Immediately to release the report now, or select the radio button next to the date drop-down lists and choose the appropriate date and time to release the report later.
• In the Release Report To area, check the boxes beside the roles you want to release the report to. For example, checking the box beside Instructors would allow all instructors in your course to see the report, or checking Students would release the report to all students. If you want to release it to TA's, please check all boxes with the word TA in it as we use several different kinds of TA's.
• Click Save Report.

You can choose whether or not to allow Students to see this or just Instructors and your TA's by choosing the Privilege Roles to release this information to .

Adding Questions and Setting up the Quiz Layout

To add or remove questions or sections to your quiz:

• Click on the Layout/Questions tab within a quiz.
• Click the Add/Edit Questions button.
• Create Sections for your quiz by choosing Section from the Create New drop-down list and click Go. Refer to Creating Quiz Sections for details.
• Import questions from your Question Library by clicking the Import icon. Choose Question Library in the Source Collection drop-down list. In the Source Section drop-down list, choose Collection Root to show all of the questions and sections in your Question Library, or choose a specific section. Questions from your library display on the page. Check the boxes beside the questions you want to import and click Save.

Or,

• Create questions in your quiz as described in the Common Features Among All Question Types located below.
• Go to the Layout/Questions tab for your quiz.
• Set how many questions will be displayed per page by typing the number in the Place Questions Per Page text box and click Go.
• To manually insert a page break in the quiz, click on the small gray arrow between the questions where you want the page break to be. The gray arrow and line will turn blue, indicating the page break. The arrow is extremely small and is on the gray lines between each question on the most left end point of the line. If you rest your mouse on this point, your mouse will change from the arrow into a hand that signifies a link.
• Tip Using a small number of questions per page reduces page load time.
• Click Save Quiz .

Bonus Questions

To create bonus quiz questions, from the Layout/Questions tab while editing your quiz, or from the Add/Edit Question page. From either location:

• Click the Edit Values button.
• Check the boxes in the Bonus column beside the questions you would like to assign a bonus value.
• Click Save. The selected questions will now display a green checkmark in the Bonus column.

The bonus value will be equal to the point value assigned to that quiz question. If you are connecting the quiz to a Grade Item in the Grades tool, you will need to make sure the Grade Item can exceed the point total if you want a student to get over 100% for the quiz in the Grades tool. In the Grade tool there is a check box on the Grade Item's property's screen, "Allow to exceed".

Common Features Among All Question Types

The following features apply to all question types in the quizzing tool:

1. All questions are built at the location of - choose quiz name, Layout/Questions Tab, Add/Edit Questions button, Create new drop down menu and GO or in the Question Library, Create new drop down menu and GO .
2. All question types have an optional Title field. If you do not enter a title, the system will take the first 20 characters from the question text and enter it as the title. The title is only displayed in the quiz tool and not to students taking the quiz. It can be useful to place a number in the Title box to help you stay organized when creating the questions.
3. Difficulty Level is for Instructors only. It allows you to see what kind of questions you have already built.
4. If you would like question feedback displayed to the users, enter your feedback in the Add Feedback area.
5. To display hints, enter the text in the Question Hint field. If you are using hints on the quiz make sure the Properties Tab's Optional Advanced Properties has Hints enabled on the quiz.
6. If the questions you are building utilize the same question text or set of answers then after you build one you can click Save and Copy, make the appropriate edits and repeat the steps until you have built all of them.
   
   You have access to the HTML Editor, Previewing, and spell check. Remember to Save each question when you are done building it and you can hit Save and New if you want another question of the same type.
   

Multiple Choice

1. 1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.
   
   2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
   
   3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
   
   4. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.
   
   5. Choose a display Style to set how answer choices appear to students. We recommend Vertical.
   
   6. Type in the question options (answer choices) in the text boxes. If you wish to add more options, click the Add Option button. You can put a number from 1-99 in the Add Option box to quickly add lots of Option boxes.
   
   7. Set the weight of each option in the drop-down lists. For example, you may want to select 100% from the drop-down list beside the correct option. Associating an option with 100% simply means if a student were to choose that option, they would receive full points for that question. Each Option box can have a different weight if you want to give partial credit. You must use one of the preset percentages, you can not type your own.

Optional If you would like to randomize the question options, check the box beside Randomize Options. Randomizing the options ensures that each student will receive the question options in a different order. You can also type in Feedback that students will see if the Submission View has been enabled .

True or False

1. 1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.
   
   2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
   
   3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
   
   4. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.
   
   5. Choose a display Style. We recommend Vertical.
   
   6. Set the weight of each option in the drop-down lists. For example, you may want to select 100% from the drop-down list beside the correct option. Associating an option with 100% simply means if a student were to choose that option, they would receive full points for that question. Each Option box can have a different weight if you want to give partial credit. You can also type in Feedback that students will see if the Submission View has been enabled .

Long Answer

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

4. To set the size of the input text box, select the number of rows and columns, we recommend large numbers to give students as much room as possible.

5. Text entered in the Initial Text box will be displayed to users in the text box before they type their answer.

6. Text entered in the Answer Key box will be displayed to instructors or other users that grade quizzes in the Grade Quiz area.

7. Allowing student to use the HTML Editor will give them a Spell Check and several other features. Students can also Copy and Paste from Microsoft Word into the boxes so that they can use a spell checker they are more familiar with.

Note Long answer questions can not be auto graded. If you are using Questions that can be auto-graded with Long Answer Questions and you do allow attempt score to be seen immediately upon completion, the score will be misleading to students immediately following the submitting of the quiz. Example: 40 MC questions each worth one point, 3 LA questions worth 20 points each. If a student gets 39 out of 40 MC correct, the score will show 39 out of 100 upon completion of the exam. The best thing to do is allow this to happen but explain the results in your Submission View.

Short Answer

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. Choose the size of the input box by using the drop-down lists beside rows and columns.

4. Click the Add Answer icon if there is more than one correct answer.

5. Type the answer in the text field and choose the weight.

6. Continue adding all accepted answers and weights. For example, you may want to select 100% from the drop-down list beside the correct option. Associating an option with 100% simply means if a student were to choose that option, they would receive full points for that question. Each Option box can have a different weight if you want to give partial credit.

7. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

8. Click Preview to view your question. Click Save to save the question and return to the main page or click Save & New to continue creating short answer questions.

Note: We do not recommend auto grading Short Answer questions as it can be very difficult to match your answers with what students write. Also, if you allow attempt score to be seen immediately upon completion, the score will be misleading to students immediately following the submitting of the quiz. Example: 40 MC questions each worth one point, 3 SA questions worth 20 points each. If a student gets 39 out of 40 MC correct, the score will show 39 out of 100 upon completion of the exam. The best thing to do is allow this to happen but explain the results in your Submission View.

Multiple Short Answers

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. Choose the size of the input box by using the drop-down lists beside rows and columns.

4. Click the Add Answer icon if there is more than three correct answers.

5. Type the answer in the text field and choose the weight.

6. Continue adding all accepted answers and weights. For example, you may want to select 100% from the drop-down list beside the correct option. Associating an option with 100% simply means if a student were to choose that option, they would receive full points for that question. Each Option box can have a different weight if you want to give partial credit.

7. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

8. Click Preview to view your question. Click Save to save the question and return to the main page or click Save & New to continue creating short answer questions.

Note: We do not recommend auto grading Short Answer questions as it can be very difficult to match your answers with what students write. Also, if you allow attempt score to be seen immediately upon completion, the score will be misleading to students immediately following the submitting of the quiz. Example: 40 MC questions each worth one point, 3 SA questions worth 20 points each. If a student gets 39 out of 40 MC correct, the score will show 39 out of 100 upon completion of the exam. The best thing to do is allow this to happen but explain the results in your Submission View.

Arithmetic

The Arithmetic question type is a great way to present unique questions to each student. Numbers can be randomly chosen for each variable in the question based on specified number ranges.

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take. To refer to variables, type the variable surrounded with curly braces.

Example "2 trains are traveling away from each other at {x} miles per hour and {y} miles per hour respectively. How far apart are they after 15 minutes?"

3. In the Variables section, define all of the variables you used in the Question Text (you may need to scroll down to see this).

a. Type the name of your variable (for example, x) in the Name column.
b. Type the minimum value for the variable in the Min column.
c. Type the maximum value for the variable in the Max column.
d. Select the applicable number of decimal places for the variable in the Decimal Places drop-down list.
e. In the Step field, type the increment that the system should use when choosing random numbers from the range you specified in the Min and Max fields.

Example If you create variable X with Min=100, Max=200 and Step=5, the system will only choose values for X that are increments of 5 above 100 (105, 110, 115, etc., up to 200) when generating questions.

4. Click Add Variable to add more variables or Remove to delete extra variables.

5. Type the formula that you use to calculate the correct answer in the Formula field. Make sure that you enclose all variables in curly braces.

Example ({x}+{y})/4

The following constants are supported:

• PI - 3.14159 (accurate to 50 decimal places)
• e - 2.71828 (accurate to 50 decimal places)

The following functions are supported in the Formula field:

 

6. Click the Test button to test your formula. A new page will display containing an example of your formula.

7. Select a number from the Answer Precision drop-down list to define the number of decimal places student answers must be accurate to.

8. Type a Tolerance value and choose either Units or Percent to define how accurate students must be when answering the question. For example, a tolerance of 3% would allow students to be off by 3%, or a tolerance of 5 units would allow students to be off by 5 units in their answers (units are defined in the field below).

9. Type the unit that the answer to the question should be in (if any) in the Units field (for example, MPH, meters, inches, etc.).

• Check the case sensitive box if the unit is case sensitive.
• If you wish to assign points to students for using the correct unit in their answer, choose a percentage value from the Worth drop-down list.

Example If 50% is chosen in the Worth drop-down list, the student would receive 50% of the points for the question for answering with the correct value, and would receive the other 50% if they answered using the correct unit. Note that if you have selected the case sensitive option, students must type the unit in the proper letter case to have their answer considered correct.

Note: If you do not care what unit students put in, you can leave the Units box blank and at zero percentage points.This means that a student will only see one text box for them to type the answer. If they include the units in the answer, it will be marked wrong because the system is only matching the number. Alternatively, if you put the correct Unit, but leave the worth at zero percent, the student will get all or nothing credit for the question based only on the number. They will still see two text boxes however, only the number text box will be graded and counted for points.

10. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

Significant Figures

The Significant Figures question type is most applicable to science and math related courses. This question type is similar to Arithmetic questions type, but allows students to enter their answers in scientific notation format. The questions are then graded based on what students entered as their significant digits.

Example A student might submit an answer of 1.9 x 104. In this example, "1.9" are the significant digits.

1. Assign a point value and difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take. To refer to variables, type the variable surrounded with curly braces.

Example "Answer the following: {x} x {y} = "

3. In the Variables section, define all of the variables you used in the Question Text(you may need to scroll down to see this)

a. Type the name of your variable (for example, "x") in the Name column.
b. Type the minimum value for the variable in the Min column.
c. Type the maximum value for the variable in the Max column.
d. In the Step field, type the increment that the system should use when choosing random numbers from the range you specified in the Min and Max fields.

Example If you create variable X with Min=100, Max=200 and Step=5, the system will only choose values for X that are increments of 5 above 100 (105, 110, 115, etc., up to 200) when generating questions.

Note The Min, Max, and Step values must all be entered in scientific notation. Enter the significant digit(s) in the first text box, and the exponent in the second text box that is to the upper-right of "x10".

4. Type the formula you use to calculate the correct answer in the Formula text box Refer to step 5 in the Arithmetic question instructions for a list of supported functions.

5. Click Test to ensure that your formula has been entered properly. The system will provide a test case of the equation in a new page.

6. Select either Units or Percent beside Tolerance, and type the applicable value in the corresponding text field. For example, a tolerance of 3% would allow students to be off by 3%, or a tolerance of 1.2 x 102 units would allow students to be off by that much in their answers.

7. Choose the number of significant figures that the system should accept in students' answers from the Significant Figures drop-down list (this is the number of digits that will be accepted in the non-exponent field).

a. Choose a percentage value from the Default drop-down list if you want to assign only a certain portion of marks for this question for entering the correct significant digit(s).

Example You might choose to assign 70% of the points for this question for getting the significant figures correct, and 30% for getting the unit correct.

8. If your question uses a certain kind of unit (for example, MPH, mm, etc.), type the unit in the Units text box

a. Check Case Sensitive if the unit is case sensitive.
b. If you wish to assign points to students for using the correct unit in their answer, choose a percentage value from the Worth drop-down list.

Example If 30% is chosen in the Worth drop-down list, a student would receive 30% of the points for the question for using the correct unit, and the remaining 70% would be earned by answering with the correct significant figure(s).

9. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

Fill In the Blanks

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter the text that appears before the first blank in the first text field or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. Choose your blank size in the drop-down list. The answers that you put in do a pretty good job of matching to what students type, but spelling does count and if you are using abbreviations or plurals - these must be entered in as separate answer boxes.

4. Enter the text that appears after the first blank in the next text field or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

5. If you wish to add more text and blank options, click the Add Text or Add Blank buttons.

6. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

Multi-Select

Use multi-select questions to have students identify several correct answers out of a list of possible answers.

Example "Identify all of the prime numbers in the following list: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15."

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

4. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.

5. Choose a display Style. We recommend Vertical

6. Choose a marking format:

• All or nothing : Students receive full points for the question only if they select all of the correct answers and none of the incorrect answers. Students receive zero points if they miss any correct answers or select any incorrect answers.
• Right minus wrong : Students receive points equal to the number of right answers they choose minus the number of incorrect answers they choose. For example, if each answer is worth one point and a student selects 3 correct answers and 1 incorrect answer, they will receive 2 points for the question (3 minus 1).
  
  Note To determine how much each answer is worth, the system takes the total number of points that the question is worth and divides it by the number of correct answers. For example, if a question is worth 4 points and has two correct answers, each correct answer will be worth 2 points, and each incorrect answer will be worth -2 points (students receive a minimum of zero on a question: they cannot receive a negative mark).
  
• Right answers : Students receive points for each correct answer they select and for incorrect answers they leave blank. Incorrect answers selected and correct answers left blank are ignored.
  
  Example Consider a question with a total of five potential answers, three answers being checked correct and two answers being NOT checked . The total points available for this question is 5. The questions is, "Which software is made by Microsoft?".

All or nothing:
The student has to choose to check or not check all 5 boxes correctly in order to receive the 5 points. If the guess and check all five boxes they receive no credit as they got 2 boxes wrong.

Right minus wrong
The student checks Word, Excel and leaves Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint and Dreamweaver unchecked. They answered 4 out of 5 correctly but receive a score of 3.

Right answers
The student checks Word, Excel and leaves Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint and Dreamweaver unchecked. They answered 4 out of 5 correctly and receives a score of 4.

7. Check the Randomize options box to display the answers in random order to each student.

8. Type the answer options in the Options text boxes. Click Add Option to add more answer options, or click Remove to delete extra options.

9. Check the boxes in the Correct column beside each of the correct answer options.

Matching

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

4. Choose a Grading format: Equally Weighted, All or nothing (student must have all the possible correct answers or else they receive no points), or Right minus wrong (the number of right answers chosen is subtracted from the number of wrong answers chosen to get an overall score for the question).

5. Type the question Choices in the Choice text boxes. If you wish to add more choices, click the Add Choice button.

6. Type the Matches in the Matches text boxes. If you wish to add more matches, click the Add Match button.

7. Use the drop-down list beside a "match" to select the corresponding "choice" number. This will create the "matched" pairs and account for the any randomizing of answers.

Ordering

1. Assign a point value and a difficulty level.

2. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.

3. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.

4. Choose a grading format: Equally Weighted, All or nothing (students must have all the possible correct answers or else they receive no marks), or Right minus wrong (the number of wrong answers chosen is subtracted from the number of right answers chosen to get an overall grade for the question).

5. Type in the question items in the text boxes. If you wish to add more choices, click the Add Item button.

6. Choose the correct order by using the drop-down lists.

Text Information Item

Use this feature to create a question consisting of text only. You can use it to provide supplementary information on a quiz. For example, perhaps you have a case study you would like to base several questions on. Instead of inserting the case study into each question, you can simply create a text information question and have your related questions appear directly underneath the text information question. Simply enter your information text in the text box and Save.

Image Information Item

Use this feature to create a question consisting of an image only. You can use it to provide supplementary information on a quiz. For example, perhaps you have a diagram you would like to refer to in several quiz questions. Instead of inserting the diagram into each question, you can simply create an image information question and have your related questions appear directly underneath the image information item.

1. Use the Find link to locate a course image. Or, click the Browse button to locate an image stored on your computer.

2. Enter a caption to appear below the image.

3. Click Preview to preview the image.

4. Click Save , or Save & New to continue creating questions.

Re-Grading

From the main Quizzes page, click the Grade Quiz icon beside the applicable quiz name. You are presented with two options for re-grading quizzes:

• Grade by Users
• Grade by individual Attempts
• Grade by Questions (item analysis)

The options are displayed in tabs. The only difference between Users and Attempts is some of the Sorting criteria that you can use to view the scores.

Grading by Users or Attempts

Click Display Options to select the appropriate boxes you can change the following quiz display options:

• ID - displays the participants' IDs beside their name
• Quiz Score - displays the grade beside the participants' names
• Percent - displays the percent beside the participants' names
• Completed - displays date and time the quiz was completed
• Allow Reset - allows you to reset participants' grades - if you check the box next to the student's attempt number and then hit the trash can it will delete a student's attempt.(This will let the student sign in again and retake the quiz. However, there will no longer be a record of the student taking the quiz. Make sure you are deleting the CORRECT student's Attempt. )

Search Criteria you want to use will dictate whether or not you view by Users or Attempts

Grading by Question

Grading by type allows instructors to easily correct mistakes that may have occurred during the initial setup of quiz questions simply by overriding the original grades. For example, perhaps an error was made when creating a multiple choice question and students who completed the quiz received a grade value 0 for a question which they really should have received a grade value of 1 for. Grading by type will allow you to override grades for all users at once, instead of individually updating each quiz attempt. You can also enter additional comments that will be displayed users when they view their quiz report.

While grading a quiz, click the Questions tab to view quiz responses broken down by question.

Click on a question title to view statistics on and/or re-grade that question. The next page will display a percentage breakdown (question analysis) of how users responded to the question, and the date of the most recent response. Select the grade icon to modify the grade for the current question, it will be to the right of the version number for the question. If you edited the question after any of the students had taken the quiz then you will have an earlier version and a newer version (version 0 and version 1). You may need to adjust more than one version.

Other information displayed in the question analysis includes the quiz version, question text and options, the number of responses for each option, and the question value at the top of the page.

Scroll to the bottom of the next page.

Within the question analysis page, several options are available under the Grading Type area:

• The Give to all attempts option allows you to award points to all users who attempted the current question version on their quiz. Simply type the desired point value in the text box and click Save at the bottom of the screen.
• The Give to attempts with answer (#) option allows you to specify a specific value for a specific response. For example, you can allow for those who have answered Option 1, a point value of 1 and those who answered with any other Option will receive a point value of 0. This is useful if a question was incorrectly graded when the quiz was created. This means that there can only be one correct answer to a question when you are altering it after students have taken it or you can go to each Attempt for each student and re-grade it by hand.
• Click Save Results when you have completed your changes.

Note Any modifications made to the grading of the quiz question will be logged. The log will document the date, time, username, and action taken for each change to quiz grading.

Viewing Course and Quiz Statistics

In this view, you will see a list of quizzes for the course. The average grade for each quiz is shown beside the quiz name. From the Manage Quizzes page, click the Course Statistics icon .

The Course Statistics page displays with the average grade for each quiz. Click on a quiz name to view the individual quiz statistics.

• Click the User Stats Tab to see the Class Average, a rough score distribution in bar graph format, and the final score of each student's attempts. The final score is dependent upon the choices you made in the Attempts Tab of the Quiz's Properties.
• Click the Question Stats Tab to see the average score on each question.
• Click the Question Details Tab to see break downs of answers for each question (graphs are created if available for that question type). This Tab will provide the same statistics as going to Grade Quiz, Questions' Tab and into a question

Note the system will export the statistics from the tab you are currently viewing (for example, User Stats).

Exporting Quiz Statistics and Scores

There are four kinds of Quiz Exports you can use. If any of your students are Jr., II, or III then there may be extra columns for some of your students in the Excel File, you can use Excel's Data Sort to quickly identify these students and fix the data accordingly.

1. User Stats - display the final score the student earned
2. Question Stats - display the average score on the question
3. Question Details - display the number of students that chose each response on a given question
4. Student Attempts - displays a line of Excel for each question for each student. This can get very large with just a few students. If you have more than 500 Attempts and 20 Questions then this file may be to big for Excel.

The first three kinds of Exports are accessed through the Course Statistics Page. The Tab you are on when you click Export is the CSV file that will be generated.

The Fourth kind of Quiz Export is accessed through the Grade Quiz feature and then click the Export To CSV button. This will generate a CSV File that has a row for each student's answer to each question on each Attempt the student submitted. 10 Questions with 20 Students and 2 Attempts per student is 400 rows.

 

Using Excel to Analyze Exports

Once you saved your CSV Export file to your computer, you may be lucky enough to open it immediately and have all the information in the correct columns, but depending on how your browser is set you will need to Import it into a blank Excel file.

1. Open a Blank Excel file
2. Go to Data Menu and choose Import External Data and Import Data

3. Change the File Type to All Files

4. Now locate your file in your computer and then click the Open Button
5. Choose Delimited and Next

6. Choose Comma and Next

7. Choose General and Finish

8. Choose OK

These eight steps will allow you to Open the Export file in Excel so that you can analyze and create graphs in any way that you want. The Student Attempt Export file may be to big for Excel and require the use of Access and Importing External Data into a New Table.

Viewing Quiz Reports

You must set up quiz reports in the Reports Setup tab of the appropriate quiz before you can view it. Refer to Setting up Quiz Reports for details.

To view quiz reports:

• Click the name of the appropriate quiz on the Manage Quizzes page.
• Click the Reports icon .
• Click the name of the report you want to view or export.

The Generate Report page displays:

Quiz Reports page

• Check the From box and choose the applicable date from the drop-down lists if you want the report to only include quizzes submitted on and after a certain date.
• Check the To box and choose the applicable date from the drop-down lists if you want the report to only include quizzes submitted on or before a certain date.
• Click Generate Report .

The report displays.

• Click the Export Link to save the report as a .csv file on your computer.
• Click to print the report.

Copying a Quiz

To copy an existing quiz, click the Quizzes link in your course NavBar to access the Manage Quizzes page:

• Click the Copy Quiz icon . The Copy Quiz page displays.
• Select the applicable quiz from the Quiz to Copy drop-down list.
• Type a New Quiz Name .
• Choose a status from the New Quiz Status drop-down list.
• Select Edit quiz after copy completes to be taken directly to the Edit Quiz area after creating your copy.
• Click Create Copy .

Re-Order Quizzes

To change the order that your quizzes are listed on your Manage Quizzes page:

• Click the Re-Order Quizzes icon .
• Select the appropriate check boxes next to the quiz names and click the up or down arrows to move it through the list of quizzes.
• Repeat the previous step for each quiz name until you have reached the desired order.
• Click Save .

Deleting a Quiz

On the Manage Quizzes page:

• Click the Delete Quizzes icon.
• Check the boxes beside the quizzes you want to delete.
• Click smaller Trash Can above the quiz names to the delete selected quizzes.

Previewing a Quiz

Click the Preview icon beside a quiz in the Manage Quizzes page to see that quiz as users would see it. If you have set up a random quiz, the questions will be randomly drawn. As an instructor, you can go through all the steps of answering the questions, submitting the quiz, seeing the Submission View and finally viewing the reports you have setup and released.

It is always a good idea to preview a quiz before you release it to students.