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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
4. You can also import question by choosing the Import menu. You can Upload a File, as seen below:
5. You can choose a question or multiple questions from the Question Library.
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.
7. Finally, you can add questions using the Learning Repository.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3. Finally, you can choose which grade is selected for calculation regarding the quiz - the highest, lowest, average, first, or last attempt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Wally Warren
I have inserted multiple quizzes but this was helpful to expand on some details that I wasn't aware of!