Creating and Managing Quizzes

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The Quizzes tool in Brightspace allows instructors to create and evaluate question-based assessments in their courses. In the UVic instance of Brightspace, the Quiz Tool is nested under Course Tools on the blue NavBar.

This page covers creating and managing quizzes. For information on grading a quiz, please see Evaluating Quizzes.

Why Use the Quiz Tool in Brightspace?

 Create, Edit and Manage Quizzes

  • From unit quizzes to exams, the Brightspace Quiz tool allows instructors to create quizzes and use comprehensive options such as start and end dates, duration, restrictions, and visibility. Moreover, a quiz can be linked to a grade item in the grade book, which will be automatically populated once the quiz is graded.
  • Instructors can edit a quiz should they find any errors in its content or setup. Minor changes are available even when there are user attempts.
  • For improved navigation and organization, quizzes can be grouped into categories that represent a set of activities in a course, such as Unit Quizzes, In-class Activities, or Exams.

Add, Edit and Manage Questions

  • When making a quiz, instructors can create their questions from a variety of pre-defined question types, adjust the number of marks associated with them, or decide to make any of them a bonus question. Instructors can later edit the content of a question, change its type or marks, or delete it. New questions can be easily added to an existing quiz.
  • The Brightspace Quiz tool contains a convenient embedded option called the Question Library. It allows instructors to build their own question bank and use the questions in it in different types of activities. Please visit our Question Library page for additional information.

Provide Accommodation to Students

  • The Brightspace Quiz tool allows instructors to provide accommodations to students such as adding extra time and number of attempts, extending quiz dates, or exempting students from a quiz.
  • Instructors are also able to choose whether to make a quiz available to all learners in a class but grant special access to certain students; or they can make a quiz visible to specific users only.

Start Making Your Quizzes

This 2-minute video will help you understand the basics of creating and modifying quizzes in Brightspace. Note: In UVic’s Brightspace version, the quiz tool is found under Course Tools in the NavBar.

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October 19, 2021

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