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Create a Quiz with Random Questions

Brightspace offers a robust quiz creation and administration tool with several customizable options that make it ideal for assessment, pre-assessment, and acknowledgment of course policies. The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage points-measured assessments. The following guide provides detailed steps on the quiz creation process.

1. On the navbar, click Assessments and select Quizzes.
2. On the Manage Quizzes page, click New Quiz.
3. Enter a name for your quiz.
4. In the Questions area, click Add Existing or Create New. Follow the steps below to either create new individual questions, create new questions by section or import questions from the question pool
   
   Creating New Questions

   1. Select Create New, New Question and the type of question.
   2. Enter the question text and use the Options menu to set advanced criteria.
   3. Click Save for the main Question Editor page, Save and New to create another question of the same type or Save and Copy to create a new question identical to the question you just created.
   Creating New Questions by Section

   Sections can be used as a method to group and organize questions within Quizzes.

   1. Select Create New and then Section.
   2. Enter a section title.
      -To hide the section title from learners, select the Hide Section Title from students check box.
   3. Enter the Section Text.
      -To hide the section text from learners, select the Hide Section Text from students check box.
   4. To shuffle questions within this section, select the Shuffle questions in this section check box
   5. Click Save or from the Save drop-down menu click either Save and New or Save and Copy.
   Adding Questions Using the Question Pool

   1. Select Create New and then Question Pool.
   2. Enter a Question Pool Title.
   3. Specify the number of questions from the pool that you want to appear to learners and how many points learners will receive for each question they answer correctly. The appropriate number of questions will be chosen randomly for each quiz attempt.
   4. Click Browse Question Library, search for and select the individual or group of questions you want to add and then click Import.
   5. Click Save.
   Importing Questions From your Computer

   1. Click Add Existing and then Upload a File.
   2. Drag and drop your CSV file or IMS QTI compliant course package (ZIP folder) or click Browse Files and select the file you wish to upload
      Please note: If you do not have the proper CSV template, you can download templates from Brightspace.
   Importing Questions From the Question Library

   The Question Library is a good place to store, organize, easily access and see statistics for all your questions within a course. As a a central repository, it stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course.

   1. Click Add Existing and then Browse Question Library.
   2. In the Source Section drop-down list, choose the Collection Root or a specific section from which existing questions reside.
   3. Select the check boxes beside the questions you want to import, then click Add.
   Importing Questions From the Learning Repoitory

   1. Click Add Existing and then Import from Learning Repository.
   2. You can use the search bar to Search For repositories you wish to import questions from or click Show Repositories to see which University at Buffalo Repositories are available to select questions from.
   3. When you find the file you want to import, select the option button next to the object and click Select.
5. To set permissions and restrictions on a quiz:
   
   Setting Permissions and Restrictions for Quizzes

   • Availability Dates & Conditions
     1. Set the Start Date and End Date
     2. Choose a Release Condition
     3. Manage Special Access
     4. Create a Password to take the quiz
     5. Restrict the origins from where students can take the quiz using IP Restrictions.
   • Timing & Display
     1. Select whether students have No Time Limit, a Recommended Time Limit, or turn on an Enforced Time Limit.
     2. Please note:The Enforced Time Limit allows you to set a “grace period” (which can be set at 0); you can select whether students can continue working without a penalty, prevent the student from making additional changes, or automatically score the quiz as a “0” after this grace period expires.
     3. Shuffle the Quiz questions
     4. Allow Hints
     5. Disable Email, Instant Messages, and Alerts within Brightspace.
   • Attempts & Completion
     1. Manage the number of attempts a student can have to complete a quiz
     2. Set the Category the quiz will be under in the grade book
     3. Send a notification email to alert an instructor or TA that a quiz is attempted
   • Evaluation & Feedback
     1. Auto-publish attempt results immediatly upon completion
     2. Synchonize to grade book on publish
     3. Choose what to display to learners (the grade, incorrect questions or correct questions)
     4. Customize Quiz Results Displays
     5. Mananage Learning Objectives
6. Click Save and Close.

Create a Grade Item
Associate an Activity with a Grade Item

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For disciplines that make use of the EchoVideo platform, follow the instructions below to create a link in Brightspace for your EchoVideo content.

Step1

In your course or module click the Existing Activities button

Step 2

From the drop down list, select External Learning Tools

 

Step 3

From the list of services select Echo360 Course

 

Step 4

Click on the Name of the created item, then on the next screen select the term, course and section. It is recommended to leave the option for section home as the default

Step 5

Once the connection is made, you will see the EchoVideo interface.

Over the course of 2022, instructor-created content from 2019-2022 LIU Class course sites will be moved into LIU Brightspace as reference material, where you may choose to reuse it to build your new Brightspace course sites. It is important to note that this content will be moved into corresponding LIUBrightspace “Reference Sites” under the equivalent term — content from a Spring 2022 LIU Classes course site will be moved into a corresponding Spring 2022 LIU Brightspace reference site; it will not be moved into your active Brightspace course sites, action IS required on your part if you choose to reuse this content.

 

Gamifying a course using awards in Brightspace

In Brightspace there is an awards system that you can set up with conditions that will grand a student that award when the conditions are met.

From your course menu go to Class tools > Awards> Course Awards.

 

From there you Click “Add Award to Course” then click “Create”.

 

Give the Award a name, a description that explains how to claim the award and select if it’s a certificate or a badge. A certificate will issue a pdf certificate that you create.

Set the availability and expiration dates if any

Choose an icon that best fits the award, or you can create your own. Set the issuer information and email then click save and close.

 

Finally, Click to edit the properties and you can set the credits and the conditions under which the award is given

 

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