Welcome to the D2L Basic Foundation
Training
Video on Managing Quizzes.
Welcome to the D2L Basic Foundation training video on Managing Quizzes.
In this video segment we will
discuss the question library,
including creating new sections
and questions as well
as importing testing packages
from our publisher.
We will then cover creating
and managing quizzes.
Let's begin with the Question Library
The Question Library allows you to create,
edit, store and organize quiz questions
that can be shared and reused within the course.
The question library interfaces
with both quizzes and surveys.
Please note that it is a recommended practice
to organize imported questions into sections
in the Question Library prior to
releasing them into actual quizzes.
To access the Question Library from within
your course, click on the Assessments link
in the Nav bar, then quizzes, and
Question Library to access the interface.
The Question Library can be organized
into multiple sections or folders,
making it easier to find
questions for your quizzes.
To create a new folder, click the
New button and then choose Section.
Provide a name for your Section [typing
sound], scroll down, and click Save.
You will now see your new Section
in the Sections sidebar on the left.
To add questions to your Sections, click
on the Section title to open the folder.
Click the New button and choose
the appropriate question type.
D2L has a variety of question
types, as seen here.
Click Done editing Questions to return to the Manage Quizzes screen.
Bulk importation of quiz
questions is also possible
through the Import/Export course components
tool, which can be found by clicking Edit Course on the navbar.
Typically, publishers will provide electronic
materials for specified textbooks in the form
of a downloadable package made
available on the publisher's website.
Your textbook representative and/or
documentation on faculty resources
from your publisher, can provide
details on what is available for you.
Package types that are typically
compatible with D2L include D2L,
IMS Common Cartridge, SCORM and QTI.
Please note that although it is not
an officially supported file type,
Blackboard 6-8 file package
typically import well into D2L
and are commonly available with most publishers.
To upload content, access the Edit
Course link from your Nav bar,
then Import/Export Components tool.
From here, select Import Components, and then
click Choose File to browse to the zip folder
on your computer, [mouse
clicking sounds] and click Start.
Once the Preprocessing Progress has completed
and there are checks next to both items,
click Continue and choose whether or not you
want to overwrite any existing data in the file
or to just append to it by not overwriting.
You can select All Components from the
file or Select individual items if you wish
to select particular questions to import.
We will choose Select All
Components and click Continue.
Okay, it's just confirming our Import
selections, we'll click Continue,
and once we see a check next to all
of the items, we'll click Finish
and receive an Import Summary that
our course import was successful.
Now we'll go review the items that we have
imported by going back to our Question Library.
Again, from the Nav bar, click
Assessments, Quizzes, and Question Library.
Now you'll see that I have 3 new
sections that have been imported.
If I click on one of those sections, you'll
see questions that have also imported.
I can edit my Section titles by using
the dropdown bar and clicking Edit.
Click Save.
I can reorder my sections by moving
them up or down and click Save.
Or if I would like to edit a particular
question, I can do so by clicking
on the question name, make the
appropriate changes, and click Save.
Once we have uploaded all of our questions
to the Question Library, we can click Done Editing Questions.
And now we will discuss creating
the actual quiz.
The quizzes are created in
the Manage Quizzes screen.
If you're not already in the Manage Quizzes
screen, it can be accessed from the Nav bar
by clicking the Assessments link and Quizzes.
This will lead you to the Manage Quiz screen.
From here we'll click New
Quiz. Under the General heading, give our Quiz a name.
The next field is Category.
A category is not required
but can be used to organize
or group your quizzes on
the Manage Quizzes page.
This Category is in no way
related to the grade book.
Under the Quiz Questions heading you can start adding or editing questions for your quiz.
Click Add/Edit Questions.
From here you may add new questions
directly to the quiz by creating them here
in the same way we created them in
the Question Library by clicking New
and choosing the appropriate question type.
However, since we have already imported
questions to our Question Library
in our sample course, we will import
the quiz questions from there.
To do this, click Import.
The import source will remain
from an existing collection.
The source collection will
be our Question Library
and the source section can be the individual
section that we created where our questions live
or you can choose the Collection Root
to display the entire Question Library
and choose questions from each question section.
Select, use the check boxes to select the
questions you wish to add, and click Save.
Now you'll see the questions that
we have chosen to add to our quiz.
We can make a question bonus on
our quiz by using the check box,
click Edit Values and make it Bonus.
You can also change the points
from here and click Save.
When we're finished and all of the
questions are as we wish, click Done Editing Questions
and we come back to our Layout Questions tab.
Here we can decide how many questions
we would like to display per page.
I'll have 1 per page and click Apply.
Now you'll see the page breaks
between each question.
You can also decide whether you
would like to prevent moving backward
through the pages by using the check box here.
Under the Description / Introduction and Page Header / Footer headings you can type a description, introduction
and page headers and footers for your quiz. Notice you will need to turn them “on” to be viewable by all browsers.
Under the Advanced Properties heading You may allow hints if you've set
those up with your questions.
Security options can be set by disabling
right click or turning off or on the ability
for students to send pager alert
messages while they're taking their quiz.
You can add an email address or addresses here to send a message each time a quiz is submitted.
Clicking Save will move you back to the top of the screen.
The next tab we'll discuss
is the Restrictions tab.
The Restrictions tab is where we can determine
the availability of the quiz, security options
and the time allowed to take the quiz.
Under the Dates and Restrictions heading, the Status of a quiz is automatically
set to Inactive when it's created.
This means that students will
not be allowed to even view the quiz icon, description or instructions.
Once you are ready to publish your quiz, you
will need to change the Status to Active here.
You can also set a Start Date and an End Date
and if you would like the quiz to Display
in the Course Calendar, you can do so here (only if the quiz is set to Active).
Additional Release Conditions, such as
requiring certain content
to be viewed before releasing the
quiz can be Created and Attached here.
Under Security Options you may choose Respondus
Lockdown Browser to restrict students’ access to the Internet while accessing the quiz.
Under Optional Advance Restrictions, you can create a unique Password and limit access by IP address.
Under the Timing heading time limits are established for the quiz.
So, choose the number of minutes that
students are expected to complete the quiz, for example 60 minutes for one hour.
Check Enforced in
order to enforce that time limit.
A grace period is required and can be a minimum
of 1 minute and that is to allow students time
to click Submit once their time has run out.
The next section tells the system how we
would like to deal with Late Submissions.
The first option is Allow Normal Submission.
This option will allow the students to
submit their exam at any time regardless
of the time limit and grace
period that have been established.
It will grade all of the answers that were
submitted, but you will see the time stamp
that shows that the submission was
late, so you manually change the grade
if you feel appropriate to do so.
The second option, Use Late Minute of blank
minutes, and you can choose the number
of minutes, will also allow
students to hit submit at any time.
In this case, the system
will take the time limit
and add the grace period
plus this late limit and once
that time has expired, the score will be a 0.
Again, the students can continue
working and press Submit at any time,
but they will receive a score of 0
after this accumulated time has expired.
The last option is the Auto Submit Attempt.
The way this attempt works is once the time
limit plus the grace period has expired,
students are given no other
option but to submit the quiz.
They will receive a pop up saying "the
time has expired please hit Submit".
The next section is the Advanced Availability.
This is where we can set special access for
an individual user or users within our course for example students with documented accommodations or with an
excused reason for missing the quiz.
In order to do so, click Add Users to Special
Access, put a new start date or end date,
so we might give an extra few days.
We can assign a special time
limit, so instead of 60 minutes,
we'll do double time and enforce that.
The grace period can be changed and
any late submissions can be changed,
how you want the system to handle the
late submissions can also be changed.
Select the users that should be given the
Special Access, and click Add Special Access.
You will see at the bottom that this
user, [mouse clicking sounds] whereas most
of your students have 60 minutes, this user has
120 minutes and you can see the altered dates.
Any information that has changed will show here.
To edit or remove Special Access for a student, you can
click pencil icon or the X.
Click Save to return to the top of the screen.
The next tab is the Assessment tab.
Under the Assessment heading is the Grade Item field.
This is where we link our quiz
to a column in the grade book.
Information about setting up your grade
book is covered in a separate video.
By allowing automatic export to grades,
D2L will send auto graded attempt
scores directly to the grade book.
However, this requires that a grade
item be associated with a quiz.
By allowing attempt to be set as
Graded Immediately Upon Completion,
the students will see their score as
soon as they submit their attempt.
The score displayed is only
what the system can auto grade.
Under the Attempts heading You can give students an unlimited amount of
attempts or choose between 1 and 10 attempts.
The next overall grade calculation tells the
system how you would like multiple attempts
to be scored in the grade book and if you
click Save when there are 2 or more attempts,
you get Advanced Attempt Conditions which
will restrict those additional attempts based
on a minimum or maximum percentage on attempt 1.
Click Save to return to the top of the screen.
Next we'll talk about the Submission views.
The default view is what is released to students
immediately after they've submitted their quiz.
A message will display saying "your
quiz has been submitted successfully"
and they will see the number they
got correct out of the overall total.
The view can be changed by
clicking on Default View,
changing the available message
or options and then click Save.
Take a moment to review the various options.
Click on the question icon if you wish to
see additional information about any options.
Click OK to close the explanation.
Click Save to return to the Submission View tab.
You can add additional views that include restrictions on when, where, what and for how
long students can review their quiz attempt.
Click on Add Additional View.
Under View Properties type a name for your additional submission view.
It is optional to type message.
Set a date for when this view becomes available, for example after the quiz end date.
Check the IP restriction if you want to limit the submission view to the same location you
selected on the restriction tab.
You can also restrict which attempt can be reviewed and at what percentage range.
Click on the Limited Duration checkbox if you wish all your students to have the same
amount of time to review their quiz regardless of how early they submitted their responses .
Fill in the amount of time you will allow.
Under View Details choose if you wish to show your quiz questions and how or choose not to
show your quiz questions.
You can also select to show the student’s score and how their score compared to others in
the course.
Click save to return to the Submission View tab.
You can create multiple additional views.
Once you're finished, click Save and Close.
To preview the quiz as a student would
see it, use the drop down menu next
to the quiz title and click Preview.
Here you have the option to bypass any
Restrictions that you might have on your quiz,
you also see the quiz details, how many
attempts are allowed, and instructions.
Start quiz, click OK, and then you'll
see the questions displayed 1 per page.
If I click and answer and move to the next page,
notice that my answer was automatically saved
so it's a good idea to add 1 question per page
so that if students don't actually take the time
to click the Save button, their
progress is still being saved
as they move from page to page.
Go to Submit Quiz.
You'll get a quiz submission confirmation.
You can choose whether or not you
would allow your preview attempt
to be graded in the grade quiz area.
This; however, will not affect the
statistics for your quiz grades in your class.
You can either submit the quiz, or
if you've seen everything you want
to see, click Exit Preview.
This concludes the D2L Basic Foundation
Training Video on Managing Quizzes.
Thank you for watching.
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