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Quizzes

The Quizzes tool enables instructors to create and manage points-measured assessments,  evaluate users' learning progress and create and manage quiz questions.

On this page:

Creating a Quiz

UB Learns offers a robust quiz creation and administration tool with several customizable features that make it ideal for assessment, pre-assessment and acknowledgment of course policies. 

Bonus Questions in Quizzes

We recommend adding a quiz to the grade book after all the questions, including bonus questions, have been added to the quiz.

Changing Questions to Bonus Questions After Attempts Have Been Submitted

Quiz questions can be changed to bonus questions after students have submitted attempts, but the steps are different if the quiz and grade item were created with the same maximum points or different maximum points.  

Change Question to Bonus

  1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Quizzes.
  2. Click New Quiz.
  3. Enter a name in Quiz Title.
  4. Click Add Existing or Create New to add questions to the quiz. Learn more about adding questions to a quiz below.
  5. Set a quiz due date if necessary.
  6. Set quiz options if necessary. Learn more about quiz options in Setting Up Additional Quiz Options below
  7. After all the questions have been added to the quiz, click Not in Grade Book and select Add to Grade Book. A new grade item will be created in Grades.
  8. Click Save and Close.
  1. Click Create New, select New Question and select a question type.
  2. Enter the question text and use the Options menu to set advanced criteria. 
  3. Click Save.
    • Click the chevron icon next to Save and select Save and New to create another question of the same type or select Save and Copy to create a new question identical to the question that was just created. 
Sections can be used to group and organize questions within quizzes.
  1. Click Create New and select Section.
  2. Enter a section name in Section Title.
    • Click the checkbox next to the  Hide Section Title from students to hide the section title from students.
  3. Enter text the Section Text.
    • Click the checkbox next to Hide Section Text from students to hide the section text from students.
  4. Click the checkbox next to the Shuffle questions in this section to shuffle questions.
  5. Click Save.
    • Click the chevron icon next to Save and select Save and New to create another section or select Save and Copy to create a new section identical to the section that was just created.
  1. Click Create New and select Question Pool.
  2. Enter a name in Question Pool Title. 
  3. Specify the number of questions from the pool that you want to appear to students and how many points learners will receive for each question they answer correctly. The questions will be chosen randomly for each new quiz attempt.
  4. Click Browse Question Library
  5. Click the checkboxes next to the questions to add to the question pool.
  6. Click Import. 
  7. Click Save.

For more on the Question Library, see Using the Question Library.

  1. Click Add Existing and select Upload a File.
  2. Click Browse Files and select the file you wish to upload.
  3. Click Import.
  1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Quizzes.
  2. Create a new quiz or click the name of an existing quiz to edit it.
  3. Click Add Existing and select Browse Question Library.
  4. Search the question library by keyword using the search question text field or search another quiz in the course by changing the Source drop-down menu to select the quiz. 
  5. Click the checkboxes next to the questions you want to add.
  6. Click Import or Import to Section. 
  7. Click Save and Close.

The Question Library is a good place to store, organize, easily access and see statistics for all your questions within a course. As a a central repository, it stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course.

Setting Up Additional Quiz Options

On the right of the quiz creation page, you may choose from the following options:

Availability Dates & Conditions

  • Start Date and End Date
  • Release Condition
  • Manage Special Access
  • Create a Password to take the quiz

Timing & Display

  • Set time limit
    • Set a time limit, when the timer starts (when a student launches the quiz or at a specific time for everyone), and what happens when the time limit expires.
  • Paging
  • Shuffle Quiz
    • Shuffles questions and sections within the quiz.
  • Allow Hints
    • Alllows students to view hints added to quiz questions.
  • Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace
    • Students cannot access the Email, Instant Messages and Alerts tools in UB Learns if they have a quiz attempt in progress.

Attempts & Completion

  • Attempts 
    • Allows instructors to set the number of attempts allowed and how the overall grade is calculated when students take more than one attempt.
  • Category
    • This is used to organize quizzes in the Quizzes tool. It does not relate to categories in Grades.)
  • Notification Email 
    • Instructors or other elevated roles can receive an email each time a quiz attempt is submitted.

Evaluation & Feedback

  • Auto-publish attempt results immediately upon completion
  • Synchonize to grade book on publish
  • Choose what to display to learners (the grade, incorrect questions or correct questions)
  • Customize Quiz Results Displays
  • Mananage Learning Objectives

6. Click Save and Close.

Working With Session Restrictions

To enhance academic integrity, instructors can restrict a quiz attempt to a single browser session. This helps prevent another individual from logging in as the student and collaborating on the same quiz attempt.

Before enabling session restrictions, instructors should be aware that if a student's browser session is interrupted for any reason—such as accidentally quitting the browser, a browser crash, an automatic session reset or an unexpected computer restart—the student will be unable to resume the quiz until the instructor manually resets the session restriction. For these reasons, session restrictions are recommended only for quizzes that are:

  • High-stakes
  • Timer-enabled
  • Proctored (instructor is available to manually reset session restrictions)

When using session restrictions, instructors should:

  • Inform students before the quiz.
  • Provide clear instructions regarding whom to contact if a session restriction reset is needed.
    • Please note that the UB Learns support team cannot reset session restrictions.

If there is a reason to suspect that a student may have committed an act of academic dishonesty, instructors are highly encouraged to review UB Learns logs for inconsistencies with IP addresses and time on task. For additional guidance regarding suspected academic dishonesty, please contact the Office of Academic Integrity.

Enabling Session Restrictions

  1. When creating a quiz, click Lock each attempt to a single login session in Availability Dates & Conditions.

Resetting Session Restrictions

  1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Quizzes.
  2. Click the chevron icon next to the quiz name and select Grade.
  3. Click the name of the student’s attempt.
  4. Click Reset next to Restricted to a single login session.
  5. Click Reset Restriction in the confirmation window.

Previewing a Quiz

  1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Quizzes.
  2. Click the chevron icon next to the quiz name and select Preview.
  3. Click Start Quiz!.
  4. Click Exit Preview in the upper-right corner when finished.

Additional Resources

Using the Question Library
Creating and managing quizzes (Brightspace)
Manage questions in the Quiz Builder (Brightspace)
Editing quizzes with learner attempts (Brightspace)