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Quickguide: Quizzes Tool

The quizzes tool allows you to create, manage, and grade online quizzes. Desire2Learn allows for quiz questions that can be graded automatically, like multiple-choice questions, and more qualitative questions, like long-answer questions.

How to Access the Quizzes Tool

Click Quizzes on the course navigation bar.

In This Guide
Creating Quizzes Grading Quizzes

Create a new quiz

Create and edit quiz categories

Grade quiz Edit selected quizzes See quiz statistics Preview quiz See quiz reports

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Creating quizzes
Create or Edit a Quiz
1. From within your course, click the Quizzes link in the course navbar. 2. Click New to create a new quiz, or select the name of the quiz you want to edit from the list of quizzes (Figure 1).
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Set Quiz Properties

1. Enter a name for your quiz in the Name field. 2. Select from these optional quiz properties: You can create categories to group your quizzes together by adding categories and then selecting them from the Category drop-down list. If you want this quiz to be linked to a grade item, select the item from the Grade Item drop-down list or create a new grade item by clicking add grade item (Figure 2). Select the checkbox next to Automatic Grade to allow the quiz attempt grade to be seen immediately after the student has completed and submitted the quiz. The displayed score is limited by what the system can auto-grade (Figure 3). 3. Provide a description for the quiz in the Description field (optional). 4. Enter text in the Introduction Message field to display any information students need to know. This is displayed to students before they start the quiz (Figure 4). Note: You must also select that the Description and Introduction messages be on in order for students to see them. 5. Use the Page Header and Page Footer fields to display permanent text above (header) or below (footer) questions while

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students are taking the quiz. The same text appears above or below all questions (optional). Note: You must also select that the Header and Footer be on in order for students to see them. 6. Click Save Quiz.

Set Quiz Restrictions

Use the options located under the Restrictions tab to set up the availability and timing of your quiz. 1. Click the Restrictions tab. 2. In the Availability section, set the Status and quiz start and end dates (Figure 5). Note: Students can only see quizzes that have been set to Active status. 3. In the Timing section, set a time limit for your quiz by entering the number of minutes in the Time Limit field. The default time limit is 120 minutes. 4. Choose to enforce the time limit or show a clock by selecting the corresponding boxes. 5. Enter a Grace Period. 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. 6. Select options for Late Submissions (Figure 6): Select Allow for normal submissions to let users submit quizzes even if the time limit and grace period have expired. Submissions after the grace period are flagged as late. If you select Use Late Limit and an amount of time, students are given a zero if they submit the quiz after the time limit, grace period, and late limit period.

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Select Auto-Submit Attempt to have the system automatically submit a quiz after the specified time limit and grace period have expired. Note: When the Auto-Submit Attempt option is active, the system submits all questions saved before the time limit and grace period has expired. Any questions that have not been saved before this time limit has expired, even if they have been answered, will not be submitted. Students should save their answers before the time limit expires. 7. Click Save Quiz.

Set Special Access

Use the Special Access feature to override the availability and timing settings of a quiz for specific students, like a student who needs more time to complete the quiz. Special access is set up in the Restrictions tab of a quiz. 1. Click the Restrictions tab. 2. Click Add Users to Special Access. 3. Select the checkboxes beside any of the special access types, and enter information in the appropriate fields (Figure 7). 4. Select the checkboxes beside the students you want to give special access. Note: In the Advanced Availabilities section, you can choose whether to allow special access in this quiz or whether to restrict this quiz to be available only to students with special access. This radio button can only be selected for one option, so if you just want this quiz to be available to your class, leave Allow selected users special access to this quiz selected. 5. Click Add Selected.
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Set up Quiz Attempts

Settings in the Attempts tab control how many times students can take the quiz and

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which attempt or attempts are used in grading. 1. Click the Attempts tab. 2. Choose the number of attempts allowed from the drop-down list. 3. Choose which attempt is included in the grade calculation from the Overall Grade Calculation drop-down list. The attempt graded can be the highest, lowest, first, last, or an average of all attempts (Figure 8). 4. Click Save.
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Create Quiz Questions

1. Click the Layout/Questions tab. 2. Click Add/Edit Questions (Figure 9). 3. To organize your quiz by section, select Section in the Create New drop-down list and click GO. 4. In the Create New drop-down list, select the applicable question type. 5. Click GO (Figure 10). 6. Fill out all required fields for the question type you selected. 7. Click Save.
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Import Quiz Questions from the Question Library

1. Click the Layout/Questions tab. 2. Click Add/Edit Questions. 3. Click Import (Figure 11). 4. For the Import Source, select From an existing collection. 5. For the Source Collection, select Question Library. 6. For the Source Selection, select Collection Root (Figure 12). 7. The questions from your Question Library will appear below these selections.

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Select the checkboxes next to the questions you want to import. 8. Click Save. The questions you selected will now be available in the quiz you are building.

Grading Quizzes
From the main Quizzes page, click the Grade Quiz icon next to the quiz you want to grade (Figure 13). You have two options for grading quizzes: Grade by Attempts grade the entire quiz attempt for one student at a time Grade by Questions grade one question for all students at the same time Select the appropriate tab to grade by attempt or by question (Figure 14).
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Grade a Quiz by Attempt

1. Click the quiz attempt you want to grade (Figure 15). The students entire quiz is displayed, including question data, the students answers, and the correct answers. If a students answer is correct, it appears with a check mark, and if it is wrong, an X is displayed. 2. Some quiz questions must be graded manually, such as the long- and shortanswer questions. You can manually grade those questions here. 3. Overall quiz feedback can be left for the student by entering comments in the Attempt Comments field (Figure 16). Note: You can give students feedback on any individual question by clicking Add Feedback below the question. 4. If you want to override an existing autograde, enter a new value in the Score field. 5. After you have finished manually grading the quiz, click Re-Calculate. 6. Click Save Results.

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Grading a Quiz by Question

1. Click 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 students responded to the question and the date of the most recent response (Figure 17). 2. Click the Grade icon to modify the grade for the current question.

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