Welcome to the new interface

Welcome to the new quiz create/edit interface! You currently have the option to

• (A) Leave it on, and experience the new look, or
• (B) Turn it off, and return to the current interface.
• (C) Expand the view options panel to toggle between the two interfaces at any time.

The VU Collaborate Quiz tool is effective at testing and identifying gaps in knowledge and providing feedback to instructors and students. You can create a quiz in VU Collaborate and link it to the Gradebook to form a component of students' assessments. This guide will show you how to create a quiz, insert restrictions by date and student, and link to the Gradebook and the reports that can be generated.

On this page:

• Access Quizzes
• Setup Quiz Properties
• Set Availability Dates & Conditions
• Set Timing & Display
• Set Attempts & Completion
• Evaluation & Feedback Setup

 

Quizzes can only be created by Block Convenors and Block Key Academics in the master space.

Once the quiz is transferred into the delivery space (automatically two weeks before class starts) only minor changes should be made. 

Step One: Access Quizzes

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 1. To begin, navigate to Assessment then select Quizzes.

2. Select New Quiz to create a blank quiz.

 

Step Two: Setup Quiz Properties

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Fill in the following fields:

1. Name: enter the title of your quiz. This should match the title of the grade item if the quiz is contributing to a final grade.

2. Link the quiz to the grade book, simply click on Not in Gradebook to expand the options:

• Edit or Link to Existing: to create a new item or link to an existing one.
• Add to Gradebook: create a new grade item.

3. Due Date: set a date and time for when the quiz is to be completed.

Description: where you describe your quiz.

4. There are two ways of adding your questions:

• Select (1) Add Existing
• • Upload a File: upload a formatted questions file - see Creating Questions with the Quiz Converter Tool
  • Browse Question Library: This allows you to select questions from the question library
    (It is recommended to always create questions in the question library) - Creating Questions in the Question Library
  • Import from H5P
   
• Select (2) Create New to add a New Question, Section, or Question Pool

5. Once all the questions are added, you can move them by selecting the question then select Move To, and choose whether you want to move the question to the Top of the Quiz or Bottom of the Quiz, or to Section.

Or More Actions to delete and set points for the questions.

 

 

Step Three: Set Availability Dates & Conditions

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1. Click on the Availability Dates & Conditions to expand the settings.

2. Adding a Start Date and End Date for the quiz will determine when the quiz is visible to students. The start date is the date that students will be able to see the quiz and the end date is when it will become hidden from them. You can always go back and change them later.

3. (Optional) you can set release conditions (a) to create a predefined condition to either allow students to take the quiz after a learning path or to release the quiz to specific student groups. Refer to Using Release Conditions for more information.

4. (Optional) Special Access (b) allows quizzes to be available to only a select group of users or individualized due dates for certain users. It is often due to assignment extensions but can also apply to the length of time available to complete a quiz. Refer to Granting Student Extensions using Special Access Options in Quizzes for more details.

Some instructors use this option as well as, or instead of setting dates as shown above. This can be useful if there are multiple classes of students taking the same quiz. You are able to make the quiz visible once a class has started and hide it again once the students have completed the quiz.

5. Other properties:

• A password may be entered and students will have to enter this password to start the quiz.
• Manage IP Restrictions: to set predefined IP addresses (IPv4). This is where you can set IP restrictions (restricting access to those who use a specific type of IP address).

 

Step Four: Set Timing & Display

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1. Click on the Timing & Display to expand the settings.

2. By default, the quiz timing is set as No time limit. You can simply change this through Manage Timing.

The timer to a quiz begins the moment the student enters the quiz and can see the quiz questions. If a student has exited a quiz before submitting (e.g., poor internet connection has kicked them out of the quiz) please note, the timer will continue running in the background. If a student has exceeded the time limit before they are able to return back into the quiz, then the teacher will need to do the following:
1. Submit the quiz on behalf of the student. For more information, please see this guide: Submitting a quiz on behalf of a student. 
2. Provide Special Access to the student to complete the quiz. For more information, please continue reading to the next section: 4.2 Special Access Capabilities. 

Late submissions are flagged in red. 

 

3. Paging Option: By default, all questions will be displayed on one page, click on the dropdown for more paging options.

• All questions displayed together
• 1 question per page
• 5 questions per page
• 10 questions per page
• Add page break after each section

Shuffle Quiz: shuffle questions and sections within a quiz. This does not cascade to sub-sections.

4. Display: to display hints to students, or disable some functions below:

• Allow hints
• Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace

Heater and Footer: You can add this to your quiz. For example, AAA1000 Assessment 2 Quiz.

 

Step Five: Set Attempts & Completion

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1. Click on Attempts & Completion to expand the settings.

2. Attempts Allowed: the system will set 1 attempt allowed as a default.

2.1. To change this, click on Manage Attempts.

2.2. Under Attempts:

• Attempts allowed (1): the number of attempts you would like to allow.
• If the number of attempts provided is between 2 - 10, you can choose how Overall Grade Calculation (2) works by clicking the drop-down. 

You can allow users one or more quiz attempts and calculate a grade based on their highest attempt, lowest attempt, first attempt, last attempt, or average of all attempts.

2.3. Select the OK button to save your changes, or Cancel to go back.

3. Notification Email: to receive notifications when a quiz is attempted, enter an email address or multiple email addresses separated by a comma.

 

 

Step Six: Evaluation & Feedback Setup

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1. Click on Evaluation & Feedback for options to edit grade applications and student views.

2. Here you will be able to add more settings to the quiz.

• Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion: auto-evaluated attempt results will be published and appear to students once they submitted their attempts.
• Synchronize to grade book on publish: student's grade will be automatically published to the grade book once it has been evaluated and published.
• When published, display to learners: Quiz results display determines how students can view their published quiz attempt results, both immediately following submission, or later when reviewing their attempt.
  • Attempt grade
  • Questions and/or answers
  • For more information on how to edit Quiz Results Displays, please read the following guide: Managing the quiz submission view, scores and providing feedback.