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Quizzes
- How do I insert a quiz into the content area?
- I need to option to assign a portion of marks in multiple choice questions where the correct answer is all of the above. So if the student picks one of the other options, technically they are 25% correct. How can I do this?
- Can I apply a minimum score to progress, ie the student has to re-take if they score below 60%
- In Sulis,I couldn't use a ‘fill in the missing word’ type question.It was impossible.There would need to be flexibility that the exact word did not have to be inserted,but one with similar meaning would also be acceptable.Is this possible in Brightspace?
- How can I add scientific characters / functions such as sigma, delta?
- Can you edit the HTML of your question text? For instance, to italicize menus and species names.
- Why is Latex oversized compared to the rest of the question text?
- Is there a way to create many questions in one go from a word document or similar?
- For a quiz with a number of topics, can questions be pulled from different topic pools e.g. 5 Qs from each of 5 different pools?
- If you update a question in a quiz, and it's also in the library - does it update the question in the library?
- How do you assign a portion of marks to an answer, e.g. in multiple choice, all of the above is correct, but each of the other choices is partially correct?
- How do you add multiple answers in short answer to allow for variability in correct answers?
- Will Fill-in the Blanks note a wrong answer for a mere misspelling?
- Is there any way of doing negative marking? How can we discourage students from guessing answers?
- In a quiz using a question pool where questions are selected from the pool at random, if a student has the opportunity to retake the quiz, will they get the same questions as they did in the first attempt?
- What is the difference between a recommended and enforced time limit in quizzes?
- Can I insert an audio file instead of an image file in a quiz question?
- Would setting a question to 'mandatory' mean it will always be chosen when selecting randomly from a pool?
- What is the best format to have questions in if you want to import them into a library?
- If a student misspells the answer in a fill in the blank question, will it be marked Incorrect?
- Can you have multiple blanks in a Fill in the blank quiz question?
Webinars and more in depth videos
Webinar on Grades tool in Brightspace (1 hour 3 minutes)
Quizzes Training Session 1 - Introduction to Quizzes (40 mins)
Quiz Training Session 2 - Advanced Brightspace Quizzes
Managing quiz libraries and quiz questions video (14:06)
Webinar: Advanced Quizzes (120 minutes)