Editing Quizzes: Navigating Tabbed Pages

Here’s a brief summary of what’s on each tabbed page in the Edit Quiz page:

1. Properties: basics of the test including the questions/answers.
   1. Set the course title, assign a category
   2. set number of questions per page and prevent backtracking
   3. add and edit questions
2. Restrictions: Control when it can be taken and who can access it
   1. Hide; set start/end date/time for accessibility
   2. Set time limit
   3. Restrict to groups; allow exemptions
3. Assessment: How grading is handled
   1. Publish, link to Grade Center column
   2. Number of attempts allowed, which attempt counts or is dropped
4. Objectives: Associate to learning objectives. (Not covered in this guide)
5. Submission View: what students can view after the exam. 
   1. Show questions, answers
   2. Show grade, class average

Looking for the settings for the Respondus Lockdown Browser / Monitor? Go back to the previous Manage Quizzes page and click on the Lockdown Browser tab.

Properties Tab

1. Name: title that students will see as clickable link.
2. Category: Create and assign a category to assist with grouping grades together for calculation.
3. Questions per page: Leave blank to allow “flow” to fit different screens (tablets or monitors). Or set it to “1” to display questions one-at-a-time.
4. Paging: Check this checkbox to prevent “backtracking”.  Once a student leaves a question, they cannot return.
5. Shuffle: Select this to randomize questions. To randomize answers, use a similar setting in each question itself. 

The Properties page also lists the questions (below the Shuffle setting).

This guide is focused on test settings. We won’t cover question creation in depth here. A brief summary on what you see on the Properties tabbed page is below.

1. Add/Edit Questions: use this to “turn on” the ability to change questions as well as add new ones. You can’t use this to regrade questions. If the test already has submissions, you will receive a warning.  
   • To regrade submissions, go back to the Manage Quiz page, click on the Action button (chevron angle button to the right of the quiz title) and select Grade.  Choose the Questions tab; select Update All Attempts. Then make your regrading changes there.
   • WATCH a video from D2L on regrading questions
2. Edit Values: change points per question.
3. Section: if questions have been grouped together inside a section, you’ll see an indicator here.
4. Classifications:
   1. Type: Denotes the kind of question. Here’s a list:

      Abbrev	Type
      MC	Multiple Choice
      M-S	Multi-Select
      WR	Written Response
      T/F	True or False
      SA	Short Answer
      MSA	Multiple Short Answer
      FIB	Fill in the Blanks
      MAT	Matching
      ORD	Ordering
      2+2	Arithmetic
      X10	Significant figures

   2. Points. How many points are assigned to the question.
   3. Difficulty: 1 = easiest, 5 = hardest.
   4. Bonus: Checkmark here means it won’t count in grading basis but its value will be added to the total if user gets it right
   5. Mandatory: Checkmark here means the question will always appear.
      1. Click on the Expand <item> link to access the settings within 
      2. Description, Page Header/Footer or Optional Advanced properties:

5. Description: Appears to student under title; appears before the link is clicked and the test is opened. Give guidance here that would be useful for students to know before the test – for example, “Covers Units 4-5”.
6. Page Header/Footer:  These will appear during the test; use as needed to include any guidance/information you want to have available, especially if you are using the single-question-at-a-time display method.
7. Optional Advanced Properties:
   1. Allow Hints: if you enter a hint in a question’s properties, checking this offers a button to the student to display that hint.
   2. Disable Email, Instant Messages and alerts:  blocks the use of Brightspace’s embedded communications tools. (Use Respondus LDB to block use of other messaging systems such as Discord, etc.)

Restrictions Tab

1. Hide from users: Not recommended. Instructors can forget to return to uncheck this checkbox before the exam begins.
2. Due Date: useful to students. Designating this will create an event in the course calendar and will trigger alerts in the web interface and the Pulse mobile app.
3. Availability: Always set both a Start and an End date/time. Be sure to pad the End Availability an extra 25% to allow for possible late starts.
4. Display in Calendar: Helps students remain aware of upcoming tests.

5. Release Conditions: Use ‘triggers’ that will grant selective access to the test. Some common ones:
   1. Grades: student has a grade at or above a score on an item.  Prevent students from moving on until they pass a particular milestone.
   2. Group membership: grant access to one section of students in a merged course. (You must first create the group and enroll members before setting this release condition.)
6. Security Options: Disabled. Go to the Lockdown Browser tab in the Manage Quizzes page to access settings for using the Respondus LDB with your test.

7. Optional Advanced Restrictions:
   1. Password: Adding a password here does NOT affect the secret password autogenerated by the Respondus Lockdown Browser.
   2. IP Restriction: Can be used to prevent users from accessing the test if they are not on the campus network.  Contact the ACT Office to create this restriction.

8. Timing:  
   1. Recommended Time Limit (shown above): students will be allowed to go over time and continue working.  
   2. Enforced Time Limit (shown below): Enter a Grace Period (if desired) where students can continue working past the time limit. Then choose one of three possible deadline options:
      
      1. Continue: Allow student to continue working: They receive warnings during the Grace Period; submission is flagged.
      2. End and submit: Prevent the student from making further changes: they cannot make any further selections or updates. Student must submit test.
      3. Further extension but then zero score: You can grant additional time to follow the Grace Period, but there’s a catch. Once the Grace Period and Extended Deadline have passed, the student gets a zero grade if they have not yet submitted.
9. Special Access: Select the proper option and click on Add Users.
   1. “Allow selected users…” is used when all students take a test but some of them need a different date/time, extended time, etc.
   2. “Allow only users…” ensures that only certain students can take the test.  Use this if you don’t already have a ‘trigger’ condition — membership in a group, say — that can handle it. In other words, this is a fast way to “dial in” special access for just a person or two. If you just need to grant access to certain individual students. A pop-up appears with options for Special Access.
      
10. Choose a different Availability Start and End date/time for these students.

11. Timing: Set an alternative time limit here. For example, give the time-and-a-half value to these students of 180 minutes for a test that normally is given 120 minutes.
12. Attempts: Check the checkbox to make the Attempts Allowed box appear; set a value from 2 to 10, or select “Unlimited”.

13. Select Users: Scroll the class list select a student.  If the list is long, use the Search function to quickly locate the student to select. Once you’ve checked them off, click on the Add Special Access button at the bottom of the page to return to Restrictions.

13. The special access settings that you have just completed now appear at the bottom of the Restrictions page.
14. When you are done setting Restrictions, click on Save at the bottom of the page before moving to the next tab or choose Save and Close to close the Edit Quiz page and to return to Manage Quizzes page. 

Assessments Tab

Settings here govern how the test is graded, whether the results are sent into a column in the Grade Center and if so, how they appear there.  

1.  Automatically Publish Evaluation: Triggers grading upon submission. If not checked off, you will have to manually go in and trigger grading one by one, etc. We recommend that you check it off and make sure that the other settings on the Submission Views are set correctly.
2. Grade Item: Links to a column in the Grade Center. Either drop down the list and select one (if you already have a column ready) or click “add grade item” link to pop-up a dialog box to create a Grade Center column. 
3. Synchronize to Grade Book: Check this off (recommended) to push the grades into the Grade Center column once grading is triggered.
4. Student View Preview: Click here to get a quick check on how the current settings will calculate a grade and how it will appear.

If you click on the Add Grade Item, a dialog box will appear. Here are the settings on that dialog box. 
NOTE: Items marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

5. Name: Remember, this is for the Grade Center column. It can be different from the name of the quiz itself. For example, you can drop the “- Requires Respondus LDB + WebCam”.
6. Short Name: You can enter an abbreviated title that fits more neatly in the Excel-like table display in the Grade Center. For example, “Back Self-Assessment” is too long here; I used “Back SA”
7. Category: You can create and use Categories to tag and group graded items together in the Grade Center. If you have them, choose from the list here.

8. Description: This is different than the Description in the Properties tab.  
   1. You can put important notes for co-instructors and teaching assistants/graders. “Only take off points if two or more instances of misspelling are present.”
   2. Or could appear in the Grades view display to the student. You could put something important/useful here. For example,  “10 percent of final exam questions are drawn from SAs.”.
9. Allow users to view grade item description: check this off if you wish to give students the text you put in step 8a above.

10. Maximum Points: We recommend that you put the maximum number of possible basis points that you already have set for the test. For example, I have 50 questions each with 1 point; the quiz maximum points possible is 50. If so, I would put 50 here, same as the quiz itself. The "grade scheme" default setting, located lower down on the pop up, is set to show percentage by default, so let it be. BrSp will calculate that someone who got, say, 42 questions right at 1 point each will have 42/50. They will receive a score of 84% shown to them.

11. Can Exceed: Allow correct answers on extra credit questions to push past the Maximum Points
12. Bonus: Classifies this as an extra credit assessment. Will not count towards the overall course grade if not done or if student fails.
13. Exclude From Final Grade Calculation: If the quiz won’t count toward the overall final course grade — for example, a practice self-assessment — check this off. It will simplify your goal of creating the formula to calculate that grade.
14. Grade Scheme: Governs how the value will be displayed in the Grade Center and in the student view of their Grades. Usually left at “Percentage”.  In the example given above in the list item 10, the student who got 42 points out of the maximum available 50 points would see 84%.

15. Hide from Users: check this off if you don’t want students to see their grades. Remember to come back and unhide it once you want them to do so!  Or use the next setting to schedule grade release:
16. Availability Start Date/End Date: use this to make the grades appear and disappear.
17. Display in Calendar: If checked, the course calendar will let students know when to see their grades from this item.

Saving the New Grade Item settings will close the dialog box and return you to the Assessment tab. Here are the rest of the settings on that tab:

18. Tracking: Brightspace tracks student progress. This setting controls how a student’s quiz submission is treated for tracking purposes. Usually it’s considered “Completed” once they submit, regardless of grade. Or you could also set it to be considered as “done” once they have passed it — once they have achieved a suitable grade score.

19. Attempts Allowed: Usually left at the default of 1.
    1. You can also select between 2 and 10, or set it to “unlimited”.

This setting applies to everyone.  If you need to give additional attempts to a particular student, leave this at 1 and use the Special Access settings in the Restrictions tab to apply special circumstances to select individuals. 

The next two settings only apply if you are allowing more than one attempt.

20. Retake Incorrect Questions Only:  If they take it again, Brightspace will only display questions that they got wrong on an earlier attempt.  
21. Overall Grade Calculation: You can drop the lowest grade, etc.

Submission View Tab

These settings control whether students see their graded test and if so, what specific items are shown to them.

1. Default View: As you have guessed, this is a preconfigured view. Almost everything is turned off. Click it to make changes. Or to see what your students will be allowed to view by default.
2. Additional View: You can preconfigure different view settings to release “around” the default view.

Clicking on the Default or Additional View buttons will bring you to the view configuration page.

3. Add a message here if desired that will appear to students when they attempt to view their graded results.    example, instructions on what will and will not be available for students to see.

4. Show Questions:
   1. Set to a default value of No. None of the grayed out options are relevant or available if No is selected. 
   2. Selecting Yes for Show Questions: will make the greyed out options available to choose.  A few are selected by default.
   3. Show all questions with user responses essentially displays the the entire test — questions, answers — with the user’s choices indicated. Use this to allow students to review as if they received their paper copies of the test back with instructor grading.
   4. Show question score and out of score: This allows users to see a numerical grade: 1 out of 1 points, 0 out of 2 points, etc.

5. Show attempt score and overall attempt score:
   1. Checking this off allows users to see their test grade even if you selected No for showing questions in list item 4 above.
   2. Useful if you allow more than one attempt.
6. Statistics: Check these off if you want to give students context on how the class did as a whole.