Quizzes

What is the Quizzes Tool?

The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments. As part of your quantifiable assessment procedures, you can use quizzes to help evaluate users’ learning progress and learning outcomes. Quizzes also provide users with feedback on their learning progress. Users can take a quiz, review their quiz results, and see class statistics for a quiz.

Create and manage quiz questions from the Question Library or the Quizzes tool, and organize quizzes into categories to make it easier to find assessments with similar or related content. Use the quiz preview option to test the accuracy of content and grading before you release a quiz. In a preview, you can answer the questions, view allowed hints, submit the quiz, auto-grade answers, read feedback, and view report results.

You can also view quiz statistics such as grade distribution, grade average, question statistics, and user statistics on the Statistics page for completed quizzes.

Accessing the Quizzes Tool

The Quizzes tool is not one of the links found on the default navigation bar of your in-class CourseLink course site. The Quizzes tool will need to be Added to your Navbar.

Location of the Quizzes link on a face-to-face course site with a red arrow pointing to it

For Distance Education (DE) courses, the Quizzes link appears under the drop-down menu of the Tools link on the navigation bar (provided that the course is using Quizzes).

Location of the Quizzes link on a DE course site with a red arrow pointing to it

Set up Timing & Display

You can create a time limit for your quiz and set up how the quiz displays to learners.

To set a time limit

To set a time limit and enter the length of time for the quiz:

From the New Quiz page, click to expand the Timing & Display drop-down menu.
Select Set time limit.
In the Time Limit field, specify the length of time for the quiz in minutes.
Click Timer Settings and do one of the following.
- If you want to automatically submit the quiz when the time limit is exceeded, select Automatically submit quiz attempt. *Please note that submitted attempts cannot be reopened.
- If you want learners to be able to continue working after the time limit, select Flag as time limit exceeded and allow the learner to continue working.
- If you do not want to enforce the time limit, select Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced.
If you have completed customizing your quiz, click Save and Close.

Setting up a synchronous quiz in the New Quiz Experience

On the navbar, click Quizzes.
On the Manage Quizzes tab, click New Quiz or one of the quizzes you would like to edit.
On the Quiz Creation screen, click to expand Timing & Display.
Check Set time limit, then enter a Time Limit in minutes.
Click Edit Timer Settings.
In the Timing dialog, under Quiz Start, select Synchronous: Timer starts on the start date.
Note: If there is no Start time and date set for the synchronous quiz, a No start date set alert appears under the radio button option and you are not able to save the quiz. Due date is disabled for synchronous quizzes. End date is not necessary but can be added.

Under When The Time Limit Expires, select one of the following:
- Automatically submit the quiz attempt
- Flag as "exceeded time limit" and allow the learner to continue working
- Do nothing: the time limit is not enforced
Click OK.