The Quiz Tool is used to create and manage quiz assessments. You can use these tools to help evaluate student progress and learning outcomes. When creating a quiz it is important to consider the design of your question(s). There are many different question types available, so you can choose the ones that best suit your course content. The quiz tool consists of three main areas: creating/managing quizzes, the question library, and quiz statistics.

Creating a quiz involves two parts: creating/importing the quiz questions and selecting your desired quiz settings

This article describes how to create a quiz. Please see part two to add Questions.

Please see the additional articles available regarding the New Quiz experience

In this article:

Creating a Quiz

Login to LEARN and navigate to your course.

1. Select Submit from the course navbar and select Quizzes from the drop-down menu.

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2. Click the New Quiz button under the Manage Quizzes tab.

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3. This will take you to the flyout where you can decide if you want to leave the New Quiz experience on or “Turn it off” and return to the previous Quiz experience. For this set of instructions, we will use the New Quiz experience. Please see the current quiz experience instructions if that version is preferred.

4. Enter a Name for the quiz.

    

5. Click the Not in Grade Book dropdown menu to choose either Edit or Link to Existing to connect the quiz to an existing grade item or Add to Grade Book to create a new quiz. reworded

    

   1. If you have a grade book item for the quiz you are creating, click the Edit or Link to Existing option. You will then see the dropdown menu of Grade items already in your course to choose from. Once you select the corresponding grade item, click OK to save.

       

   2. If you do not have grade items created, click the In Grade Book option and choose Add to Grade Book to create a grade item. You will then see an error message for the Grade Out Of score where you will need to enter the out of score for the quiz to remove the error message.

       

6. Once you enter your Grade Out Of score (this should match what the quiz is out of) the error message will go away and you can continue applying settings like the Due Date.

   1. A Due Date is an instructor-given date (and time) deadline for submitting a quiz. However, a student may submit after the Due Date (up until an End Date, if one is set), in which case it is marked late, in red, in both the instructor and student view.

7. Include a Description if so desired, otherwise, you can move on to applying the additional settings on the right-hand panel, where you will see multiple sections where settings can be applied.
   Note If a description is included, students will be able to see the text included in the description field unless the quiz is hidden. Applying a start date will not hide the description from students prior to its arrival.

Availability Dates & Conditions

1. In the Availability Dates & Conditions section, enter the Start Date and End Date for the quiz.

• The Start Date indicates when the assignment is released to students. Prior to the Start Date, students will be able to see the quiz (unless it is hidden), but they will not be able to access it.

• The End Date is more restrictive. It cuts off the quiz at the End Date and time set, where the student can no longer start the quiz.

2. In the next section, you will see the option to

Add Release Conditions to the quiz. You can choose to Create New or Add Existing condition(s).

3. Clicking either Create New or Add Existing will open a pop-up window with the available Release Conditions you can apply.

4. If any users require Special Access to the quiz, click on the Manage Special Access button in the Availability Dates & conditions drop-down menu. This will open a pop-up window, click on the Add Users to Special Access button.

5. This will allow you to set an alternate Due Date, Start Date and End Date, provide a modified time limit as well as override the number of Attempts allowed. For detailed instructions please see the Special Access instructions.

6. Once you have set the special access for the user(s) who requires them, click on the Save button to return to the previous popup window.

7. Click Save and Close.

8. Passwords can also be set for individual quizzes by entering the desired password in the text field available.

9. IP restrictions can be applied for a quiz but can only be used if you have an IP range that you can use that students will access the quiz from like in a Lab on campus etc.. Note: If you plan to use the IP restrictions, you will need to enter the starting and ending IPs in the sequence.

Timing & Display

The Timing & Display section is where you can set

• a time limit for the quiz

• determine how many questions will display on each page, if you want to shuffle questions,

• allow hints

• disable email, instant messages and Alerts within LEARN.

1. To set a time limit for your quiz, click on the Manage Timing link under the Timing & Display drop-down menu to open the timing window.

    

2. In the timing window you have the options of choosing No Time Limit, Recommended Time Limit (students will see the suggested time limit but not be asked to adhere to it) and the Enforced Time Limit which will perform the selected action when the time limit is reached.

    

3. When you select Enforced Time Limit you will be presented with options to provide a Time Limit, a Grace Period as well as how the quiz should behave when the time limit arrives.
   The options when Enforced Time limit is selected include: allowing the student to continue working, preventing the student from making further changes, and allowing the student to continue working, but automatically score the attempt as zero after an extended deadline.

    

4. You can decide how the questions will appear in the Paging section, under the Paging and Display drop-down menu. Options include All the questions displayed together, 1, 5 or 10 questions per page or you can Add page breaks after each section or if you want to Prevent users from going back to previous pages.

5. In the Shuffle section, you can decide if you want to Shuffle questions and sections within the quiz or not.

6. The Display section contains the option to Allow hints and to Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within LEARN. Please use the option to disable email, instant messages and alerts with caution. When this is selected, it applies to all the student’s messages and alerts in LEARN for all courses, not just the course with the quiz where this setting is applied.

7. Finally, you can click Manage Header and Footer and add the appropriate text for the header and footer areas of the popup window.

Attempts & Completion

The next section of the quiz settings is the Attempts & Completion section.

1. You can set the number of attempts a user will have to complete the quiz by clicking the Manage Attempts button.

2. Once the attempts window loads you will see the option to change the number of attempts from 1 to 10 or unlimited. You will also see the option to select the attempt that is graded. The options are available from the drop-down menu.

3. This section also allows you to place the quiz in a category if they exist and you can enter a Notification email(s) to alert someone of new attempts submitted.

Evaluation & Feedback

The Evaluation & Feedback section allows you to determine how the quiz interacts with the grades area of the course.

You are also able to Customize Quiz Results Displays by clicking the link and either editing the current view or creating an Additional View.

In the Customize Quiz Results Displays window, you can determine the date and time the view will be available or if the view will be available for a limited duration. If the option to limit the duration for which the view will be available is selected, enter the number of minutes the view will be available. The view will disappear once the designated time limit arrives.

The custom display will also let you enter a specific Message that users will see when they access the view and if the attempt grades will be visible to users.

There are also multiple question view options in the custom display available. These include not showing any questions.

The following three options regarding showing the question are available. Multiple options can be shown at the same time.

If you choose to display Incorrect questions only with the learner’s responses or Correct questions with only the learner’s responses, you will only see two additional options for showing correct answers and showing the learner’s grade for the displayed questions.

Finally, you can determine if you will allow users to see statistics for the quiz by choosing to Display class average or Display grade distribution.

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