Instructional Technology Services
D2L Brightspace
Faculty Help
Topic: Fill in the Blanks Question (FIB)
1. After opening your D2L Brightspace course, go to Quizzes under ASSESSMENTS in the navigation bar of
your course.
2. Click New Quiz to create the quiz and quiz settings.
3. Under the Properties tab, click on Add/Edit Questions to start adding questions to your quiz.
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4. Click on the type of question you want in your quiz.
5. When creating Fill in the Blanks Questions you will have to fill out the fields of Title, Points, and
Difficulty.
• Title: The title is optional because it will only be displayed to the instructor to make finding
questions easier.
• Points: The points field is required and is used to simply tell the point value of that question.
• Difficulty: The difficulty field is a range of numbers 1-5 rating the difficulty of each question.
- Choosing a difficulty for each question may make it easier for you to decide how
many points you want the question to be worth.
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6. If you want to add an image to your question, click Add a File and you will be able to search your
pictures and attach it.
The Question Text for the Fill in the Blank questions is just a little different than the question format for other
questions.
7. The first text box that you will fill in will be the words you want before your blank in the question.
- In this case we are talking about the U.S. President, so before our blank we will have
it say “The current U.S. President is”
8. Next, you will fill in the answers to the question.
- Since the U.S. President is often called by his last name, we will have two answers.
- If you have more than one answer, be sure to weight both of them at 100% so
either will be counted correct. You can also adjust the evaluation.
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9. The second text box you fill out, will be what you want the question to say after the blank.
- In this case we would only have a period, but if you have more words than just
punctuation, this would be where you would put them followed by the punctuation
of the question.
10. The last two options in the Fill in the Blank are the Question Hint and Question Feedback (optional).
• Question Hint: Hints will be shown in a dropdown menu in the quiz next to each question.
• Question Feedback: This option gives general feedback despite what is answered.
11. At the bottom of the page you will have different saving options.
• Save: Will save your question and take you back to the Question Library where we started out.
• Save and Copy: Will save your question and open a new question with the same information in
case you want to create another question like this one.
• Save and New: Will save your question and open a new, blank question.
• Preview: You should preview your question to make sure it will be presented in the quiz the way
you envisioned it to be.
- Previewing the question would be especially recommended with the Fill in the Blank
so you can go back and adjust your words before and after the blank of the
question.
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For More Information
Please contact Instructional Technology Services at support@mnstate.edu or 218.477.2603 if you have
questions about this material.
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