AU Instructor Toolkit for Emergency Remote Instruction - Quizzes
Guidance for Instructor Contact Minutes:
- Estimated time for student completion of quiz that also includes students reading instructor feedback
- A quiz must include instructor feedback to count as Instructor Contact time.
Create a Quiz
- Visual tour of the D2L Quizzes tool
- Video: D2L Quizzes (2:04, Source: D2L Brightspace)
Quiz Questions
Determine Quiz Settings
- Availability Dates & Conditions
- Set up Timing
- Set quiz display
- Set up number of attempts
- Allow students to retake Incorrect Questions Only (allows learners to only retake their incorrectly answered questions from previous quiz attempts)
- Set up quiz results and feedback
Adding Instructor Feedback to Quiz - Remember that a quiz must include instructor feedback to count as Instructor Contact time.
When quiz questions are created, “Add Feedback” is available under the Options pulldown. Depending on the type of quiz question, feedback can be added for each answer option (for a multiple-choice question) and/or overall feedback for the question in totality can be included.
Feedback can be provided in multiple ways: text-based information, linking to file(s), recording an audio and/or video note, adding an existing audio and/or video note, embedded information, a YouTube video, etc.
Some additional sources of feedback can be gathered in the following ways:
Quizzes FAQ: Hot tips and workarounds
- How do I change the maximum number of points for a quiz?
- How do I change a quiz question to a bonus question?
- How do I change points for a question on an in-progress quiz?
- How do I delete a question for an in-progress quiz?
- How do I reset quiz attempts?
- What if a student finished a quiz but didn't submit it?
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