Adding questions and importing questions to a Brightspace Quiz

Intended Audience

This article is intended for instructors interested in using Brightspace Quiz tool for online assessments in their courses.

Overview

The Quiz tool allows you to create new or import quiz questions from other exams or textbook publishers. In this article, you will learn how to add questions to a quiz and pull questions from your Quiz Library for the creation of cumulative or comprehensive examinations.

Adding Questions

The Quiz tool provides instructors many different ways to take advantage of creating, managing, assessing, and improving quiz questions. This process takes time, but the benefits of designing your exams withing the Brightspace Quiz tool will allow you to build on the skills you will learn within this article. To begin to add questions to a quiz

1. Go to the course you wish to add a quiz and access the Assessments menu and choose the Quizzes.

2. Select the New Quiz button.

3. Name your quiz.

4. Choose the Add/Edit Question button.

5. Here you will be given the choice to add questions or import questions from an Uploaded File, Question Library, or Import from a Learning Repository.

Manually adding question

1. Click the Add button and choose New Question.

2. From the menu select the type of question you would like to add. In the example below a Multiple Choice(see A in the clip below) is shown that gives you the ability to type in the question text(B), possible answers(C), choose the correct answers(D), add more possible answers(E), randomize answers for each student taking the exam(F), and designate the points value for this question(G).

3. Save and Close or in the context menu Save and New or Save and Copy (see H above).

Importing Question

Questions can be pulled from previous exams, Question Libraries, Surveys, Self Assessment, a CSV text file, or Learning Objects Repository (LOR).

Importing from a File

The process of importing questions from a few different file types. A Formatted text file template CSV or IMS QTI compliant course package (ZIP) can be imported as well as importing from a Word file. While the process for importing a quiz question from a Word document is different you can read more about the process in our article Importing quiz question from a Word doc.

Importaing questions from the Question Library

Importing question form the Question Library is an effective way to create custom quizzes from publishers content or past semesters. To import question from the Question Library

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Associating Quizzes with Grade Items

Connecting a quiz to a Grade Item is a powerful way to provide timely feedback and help students better understand how they are performing in your class with a comprehensive set of grades in your course. A quiz can be set to automatically grade and export these scores to the Grade Tool and the following video explains the process of setting this up.

Associating Quiizes with Grade Items

Setting up Submission Views

By default, students can see their score on a quiz. Many instructors want their students to view what questions they answered incorrectly. A Submission View can be configured to allow as much feedback as you want and when. The following video covers the process of creating a Submission View.

Creating Submission Views

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