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Creating a Quiz in D2L

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This is a guide to create and customize a Classic Quiz using the D2L website. Proceed to Checklist 1 to Navigate to the Quiz Setup!

2. Properties

1. You can change the name of your Quiz here, besides from the D2L Quiz page. You can also add this specific Quiz to a category (for example, this Quiz might be added to the 'Quizzes' category of the course to keep organized).

Image of the Name and Category of the Properties section of a Quiz

2. You can enable paging (prevent students from moving backwards in the quiz), decide how many questions each page in your quiz should have, whether questions should be shuffled at the quiz level, and apply these settings to your quiz.

Clicking the 'Add/Edit Questions' button will take you to the page described in Step 3 of this section.

Image of the Quiz Questions sections including the Questions per page, Paging, Add/Edit Questions, and Edit Values options

Clicking on the 'Edit Values' button will create text boxes to add or change the values of the questions within the quiz. You can click the 'Bonus' or 'Mandatory' checkboxes to make specific questions bonus questions or mandatory questions.

Image of the Edit Values option being edited

3. When creating Questions for the Quiz, you can add multiple choice, true or false, multi-select, and much more. You can click on each question to customize questions and answers - which are correct, what order they'll be in, etc.

You can also click on the 'randomize answer order' to prevent questions being the same option on each user's quiz. You can also enter different numeric values for each question's point-value if you need to.

The Quiz will give you a preview of how each question will look on the right side of the screen.

Image of the Add New Question menu with the Multiple-Choice option highlighted,  with an arrow pointing to the Multiple-Choice example question

4. You can also import question by choosing the Import menu. You can Upload a File, as seen below:

Image of the TestQuiz questions with the Import menu opened, the Upload a File option highlighted with an arrow pointing to the opened Upload a File pop up window

5. You can choose a question or multiple questions from the Question Library.

Image of the TestQuiz page with the Browse Question Library option highlighted and labeled 1, another image of the Browse Question Library page with the title highlighted and labeled 2

6. Choosing a Source will enable the option to import the question or questions, and then you can choose whether to add the one/multiple to the top, bottom, or a specific section of the quiz.

Image of the Source: Test 1 option in the Source menu highlighted and labeled 1 on the Browse Question Library page, and another image of the Import drop down menu options highlighted and labeled 2

7. Finally, you can add questions using the Learning Repository.

Image of the TestQuiz page with the Import menu opened and the Import from Learning Repisitory option highlighted. An arrow points to the Add Object from LOR pop up window.

8. You can add Question Sections and Question Pools as well as individual questions in the Quiz. This can help to organize longer quizzes.

You can change the section title, the option to hide the sectional title from learners, and to shuffle the questions within the section. To Save, click the blue 'Save' button. Opening the menu next to it, you can choose to either 'Save and New,' meaning create a new section, or 'Save an Copy,' meaning copy this section.

You can change to pool title as well, and change the number of questions to select as well as the points per question. To save, click the blue 'Save' button.

Image of the New Section option with the Section title highlighted. Another Screenshot of the New Question Pool option with the Question Pool Title highlighted

9. You can also expand different sections such as the Description, the Page Headers and Footers, and the Optional Advanced Properties.

You can enable or disable these sections, change their descriptions via the textboxes, and allow hints, disable email, instant messages, and alerts, as well as giving an email for notifications about these things - an instructor's email to have any reports sent back to you.

Image of the Description area of the Quiz, with the textbox highlighted
Image of the Page Header/Footer with both textboxes highlighted

10. When you are done editing the Properties section of the Quiz, you can either click the grey 'Save' button to save this section and move to the next, or you can click the blue 'Save and Close' button to exit to the D2L Quiz page.

Only click the grey 'Cancel' button if you want to exit the Quiz without saving your progress.

Image of the Optional Advanced Properties section with the Allow Hints, Disable Email, Instant Messages and Alerts, and the Notification Email textboxes highlighted
3. Restrictions

1. You can set Restrictions on the Quiz. The first option is to hide the quiz you are currently working on from Users of your class, in case you wish to deploy it at a later time.

Image of the Restrictions tab and the Hide from Users checkbox highlighted

2. You can add a Due Date for the Quiz as well as set an availability Start and End Dates, with the option to display this Quiz in the D2L calendar.

Image of the Due Date section with the Has Due Date, Start and End Dates, and Display in Calendar option highlighted

3. Adding Release Conditions to the Quiz is also an option: you can either attach existing conditions or create new ones and attach them to the quiz. There is also an option to remove all conditions, in case you decide to remove them.

Image of the Release Conditions section

4. You can add Security Options to the Quiz: requiring students to take this specific quiz as well as requiring students to view quiz feedback/results.

Image of the Security Options section with the options to require users to take this quiz and view quiz feedback and results highlighted

5. The Optional Advanced Restrictions provides the option to create a password for users to access the Quiz, and you can add an IP Restriction for specific areas to be allowed to be able to take the quiz.

Image of the Optional Advanced Restrictions page with arrows pointing to the Informational pop up windows open to describe the Password and IP Restrictions for the Quiz, as well as an arrow pointing to the new IP Restriction table when clicking Add new IP Range

6. You can add a time limit to your quiz, as shown below. The three options will give you options to change how long the test is, if the clock will be shown to users, if there is a 'grace period' of inactivity, and what to do when the grace period of inactivity ends.

Images of the three different options for the Quiz Timing, with different textboxes and options highlighted

7. Finally, you can use the 'Special Access' section to allow selected users to have special access to the Quiz.

When you are done editing the Restrictions section of the Quiz, you can either click the grey 'Save' button to save this section and move to the next, or you can click the blue 'Save and Close' button to exit to the D2L Quiz page.

Image of the Special Access section of the Restriction tab
4. Assessment

1. The Assessment section has options to auto-publish the attempt results upon completion, grade item and the grade item menu options, synchronizing to the gradebook upon completion, and the Student View Preview.

Image of the Assessment section with titles of options highlighted

2. You can alter the amount of attempts students can take the Quiz - whether it's just one or up to 10 - as well as the option to allow students to only take incorrect questions from past attempts on new ones.

Image of the Attempts section with the Attempts Allowed and Retake Incorrect Questions Only sections highlighted

3. Finally, you can choose which grade is selected for calculation regarding the quiz - the highest, lowest, average, first, or last attempt.

Image of the Overall Grade Calculation menu open with all the options shown

4. When you are done editing the Assessment section of the Quiz, you can either click the grey 'Save' button to save this section and move to the next, or you can click the blue 'Save and Close' button to exit to the D2L Quiz page.

5. Objectives

1. You can choose to associate this quiz with any learning objectives you've created within your course. Clicking on the gray button labeled 'Associated Learning Objectives' will prompt a pop-up window labeled 'View All Parents/Children' with the option to Browse and Search.

Image of the Objectives section with the Learning Objetive box highlighted

2. Once you choose them, clicking the blue 'Add Selected' button will add them to your Objectives table.

When you are done editing the Objectives section of the Quiz, you can either click the grey 'Save' button to save this section and move to the next, or you can click the blue 'Save and Close' button to exit to the D2L Quiz page.

6. Submission Views

1. Finally, the Submission Views tab will let you add or alter the ability to view the quiz from the user's/student's perspective. You can see below that the 'Default View' is selected, but you can also add an 'Additional View' by clicking the gray button labeled so under the 'Additional Views' heading.

Image of the Default View section with the Additional Views section highlighted

2. Clicking on the 'Add Additional View' button takes you to the 'Add View' pop-up window. You can add a Name and Message to this View.

Image of the Add View section with the name and message titles and text boxes highlighted

3. You can also put Restrictions within the Submission View, changing date and time as well as the IP Address Restriction and the Limited Time Restriction.

Image of the View Restrictions section with the Date, IP Address, and Limited Duration sections highlighted

4. The View Details section includes areas such as users viewing specific questions, whether or not to show standards in the Quiz, whether or not students will receive their scores automatically upon finishing the quiz, and whether or not the statistics of the class and distribution scores will be shared.

Image of the View Details setion with the Show Questions, Show Standards, Score, and Statistics main heading highlighted

5. When you are done editing the Submission Views section of the Quiz, you can either click the blue 'Save' button to save this section and move to the next, or you can click the gray 'Cancel' button to exit to the D2L Quiz page.

Once you are done creating your quiz, from any menu tab, click on the blue 'Save and Close' button. You will be taken back to the D2L Quiz page where you can either 'Preview' a Quiz to see how it will look to users or move onto something else.

Congratulations on completing your Quiz!

1 Comment

Wally Warren

I have inserted multiple quizzes but this was helpful to expand on some details that I wasn't aware of!

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