Quizzes Tool

Screenshot of a list of formative assessments in a D2L Brightspace course

Screenshot of a list of formative assessments in a D2L Brightspace course

What is the Quizzes Tool?

The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments. As part of your quantifiable assessment procedures, you can use quizzes to help evaluate users’ learning progress and learning outcomes.

Screenshot of a Quiz Question

Screenshot of a Quiz Question

Why would you use the Quizzes Tool?

Use the Quizzes Tool in your course to:

  1. Perform ongoing assessment of learner understanding
  2. Formative and summative assessment
  3. Providing a variety of questions types and multi-media to target a range of learning styles
  4. Evaluate Quiz data to measure instruction effectiveness
  5. Randomize questions

Scenario 1: Formative Assessment

Professor Smith wants students to test their readiness by taking a practice Quiz. He creates robust feedback on each question to help students know exactly where they made mistakes or need to review before attempting the actual quiz.

Julie Simmons, a student in Professor Smith’s course, is preparing for her mid-term exam (Quiz). Professor Smith has provided a practice Quiz to help Julie prepare. Julie is able to identify areas that require further preparation in advance of the mid-term exam (Quiz).

Well-designed quizzes with multi-layered feedback can help students to identify gaps in learning.

Practice quizzes provide statistics on overall class mastery and individual student performance to guide review sessions and quiz question improvement. Feedback on individual questions can be created once and shared with students automatically as needed.

Student submission views can let the student know which questions require additional study. If the instructor provides specific feedback on questions, this largely helps redirect learners to the best resources.

 

Scenario 2: Assessing Readiness

Professor Plum teaches advanced bio-chemistry. Some of the labs for the course are quite intricate and it is important that students perform the steps in the lab activity in the correct sequence in order to get the desired results. She wants to make sure that students have the maximum amount of class time in the lab to do their work so she doesn’t want to waste time in the lab, getting them ready. She decides to create some review materials and to provide these in her online course content. In addition, she also creates a lab quiz that students must complete before coming to class.

Student Bill Baggins is preparing for his lab in bio-chemistry. In preparation Bill explores the provided content in the course and then attempts the Quiz. He is successful on this Quiz and is confident that he is adequately prepared for the upcoming lab.

The Quiz tool can be used to deliver an online pre-lab or pre-activity quiz that can be used to determine class readiness.

The Quiz tool can assess the knowledge and understanding of students prior to practical exercises

Students can maximize their lab or class time by coming prepared and ready to start the activity instead of having to wait while the teacher presents the materials and ensures others are ready.

 

 Video Tutorials: Quizzes

 

Video Tutorials: Question Library

 

Your Turn Activity Part 1

To learn more about the Quizzes Tool check out:

  • Quiz Tool: Creating A Quiz in Desire 2Learn – This podcast demonstrates how to create a quiz in Desire2Learn. From John A. Logan College.
  • Using the Desire2Learn BrightSpace Self-Assessment Tool – Self Assessments is a formative assessment tool that enables you to provide students with a series of questions and immediate feedback for responses. Question types available are similar to quizzes, however, student responses are not graded and self assessment questions do not have a points value or difficulty level indication. From Saskatchewan Polytechnic.

Manage Quizzes page. Any access issues with Quizzes contact Champlain’s D2L Brightspace administrator.

Access Quizzes section under Assessments.

  1. Under Manage Quizzes – Click New Quiz
  2. Enter a Name (Properties Tab)
  3. Add/Edit questions (Properties Tab)
    1. Click New > Multiple Choice
    2. Enter point value
    3. Enter question text
    4. Set scoring for correct answers
    5. Click Save
    6. Click Done Editing Questions
  4. Set Status to Active (Restrictions tab)
  5. Set grading options (Assessment tab)
  6. Click Save and Close
  7. Select Edit
  8. Make a modification to the Name of the Quiz
  9. Click Save and Close
  10. Click Copy Quiz and give the copy a new name ‘Quiz 2’

Your Turn Activity Part 2

  1. Click on Preview
  2. Complete and submit the quiz, choosing to ‘Allow this preview attempt to be graded in the quiz area’
  3. Click on Grade
  4. Set the filter to show Preview quizzes and search
  5. Click the Questions Tab
  6. Click on a question
  7. Grade it
  8. Click Save and Close

 Your Turn Activity Part 3

Section 1: Change the question for future quiz attempts

  1. Click Edit (Quiz)
  2. Click Add/Edit Questions
  3. Click on the question to be updated and change the scoring for one or more answers
  4. Click Save and Close

Section 2: Update scores for those who have taken the quiz to date

  1. Click on Grade
  2. Set the filter to show preview quizzes and search
  3. Click the questions tab
  4. Choose update question
  5. Click on a question
  6. Assign appropriate marks for the answer
  7. Click Save

Update your Quiz Parameters

Update your quiz with the following parameters:

  1. Begins a week from today at 2:00PM and is available for two weeks ending at 11:59PM
  2. Set quiz to be graded automatically upon completion
  3. Users may have unlimited attempts
  4. Quiz has a time limit of 30 minutes and timer is displayed
  5. Display the questions and answers to correctly answered questions following a quiz attempt
  6. Build questions that included the following:
    1. True and False questions that provide feedback based on the users’ response
    2. Multi-select questions that penalizes incorrect answers
  7. Copy the quiz and edit the copy to include the password “Desire2Learn”

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