Showing posts with label quizzing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quizzing. Show all posts

Thursday, June 28, 2018

New in BOLT: Question Pools have replaced Random Sections in Quizzes

D2L has phased out the random section feature and added question pools to quizzes. This functions similarly but has an improved workflow.


Question pools will allow you to select a number of questions and define how many of those questions show up on each student's attempt. Then BOLT will randomly add that number of questions to each student's quiz attempt.


Here is a video describing how you can create question pools in your quizzes:


Video transcript:
In your quiz, click Add/Edit Questions.
Click New, and select Question Pool.
On the Question Pool screen, give the pool a name.
Type the number of questions from the pool you want each student to get on their quiz.
Type the number of points for each question in the pool.
Click Browse Question Library.
Find the questions you want to add to the pool and select them.
Click Add.
The questions are added to the pool.
Click Save.
Your pool is added to the quiz.


The BOLT Help Course documentation has been updated to reflect this feature change.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Improvement to creating sections in Quizzes and Question Library

A new, simpler interface for creating sections in a quiz is live in the new quizzing experience. The new interface includes a preview of the section as you create it.



New section creation screen in Quizzes and Question Library

Section title and text are visible to students by default. Select checkboxes beneath each field to hide them from students in the quiz. A preview appears on the right as information is entered in the fields. Finally, the save button includes a drop down menu and includes Save and New and Save and Copy options.




The following options have been deprecated in the New Section user interface:
- Image > Add a File. (You can add a file using the HTML Editor.)
- Line breaks after each section name
- Display message and image
- Section feedback
- Private Comments

Friday, February 16, 2018

New: Quiz Due Dates

To improve the consistency of dates across tools in BOLT, due dates are available for quizzes.


This allows instructors to better communicate when quizzes are due, and better identify when a learner submits a quiz late. This change impacts when quizzes are marked as late.




A quiz is now considered late if it is submitted after the due date is reached.




Previously, ‘late’ referred to attempts submitted after the time limit of an ‘enforced time limit’ quiz was exceeded.




Quizzes submitted after the due date are labeled ‘submitted late’. Quizzes submitted after the time limit is reached are now labeled as ‘exceeded time limit’.


Grade Quiz display of the differing "late" and "exceeded time limit" results.
If you want to see the new improvements to the quiz Restrictions tab, please follow the jump.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Respondus Webinars Happening Soon!

Respondus is providing free webinars in the coming weeks for the start of the new semester!


 
You can access the schedule at http://www.respondus.com/webinars/


 
Upcoming Sessions:

Quickly Create Online Exams: Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network
  • This Wednesday! August 23rd at 2pm ET

LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor Instructor training
  • Wednesday, August 30th at 1pm ET
  • Tuesday, September 12th at 2pm ET
Want more information on Respondus 4, LockDown Browser, or Monitor? Search for Respondus in the Content area of the BOLT Help Course in BOLT.

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Quizzes: New Shuffle feature

Have you wanted to be able to shuffle both the questions and sections in your quizzes in BOLT? Previously you were able to randomize questions or add random sections in quizzes. Now, you are able to also shuffle the order of sections, or the order of questions in a section, in quizzes.


Starting Friday 7/21, you will be able to use this new feature in BOLT.


To discourage cheating in quizzes, instructors can now shuffle the order of all questions in quizzes, or specific groups of questions (sections) in quizzes.


When editing a quiz in the Quizzes tool, a new option to Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level displays in the Quiz Questions section. When creating a new section to group specific questions in a quiz, a new option to Shuffle order of questions in this section is visible in the Display Options section. Once the shuffle option is selected, a shuffle icon appears next to each affected question in the quiz.



screenshot showing the option to "Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level" on the Properties page of a quiz
The new Shuffle feature coming to Quizzes on July 21




To shuffle all questions in a quiz,
1. On the quiz Properties tab, under Quiz Questions, select “Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level”.
2. Save the quiz.


To shuffle specific questions in a quiz,
1. On the quiz Properties tab, under Quiz Questions, click Add/Edit Questions.
2. Create a section.
3. Import questions to the section.
4. Under display options for the section, select “Shuffle order of questions in this section”.
5. Save the section.


You can shuffle the order of random sections at the quiz level, but random sections do not have the new shuffle questions option since the nature of random sections is to provide a random number of questions from a pool of questions, performing a similar function.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Long Answer question type renamed to Written Response on April 21st

On April 21st in the Quizzes tool, the Long Answer (LA) question type will be changing to Written Response (WR).


The change will NOT affect any of your Long Answer (LA) questions. This is a name change only.


The question type was renamed to make the name more intuitive for instructors.



Friday, March 17, 2017

Improvements to the New Quizzing Experience and Short Answer Questions

This release introduces further improvements to the new quizzing experience for True or False, Multiple Choice, Long Answer, and Short Answer quiz questions, which include the following:
  • If instructors opt out of the new quizzing experience, they are prompted to provide a reason why they are opting out.

    screenshot of questions asked when opting out such as why you are opting out and what Brightspace can do to make the feature something you would love to use

  • An option (Save and Copy) has been added that enables instructors to save the current question and copy the content to a new question that can be edited.

    screenshot of the drop down option on the save button that includes save and new and save and copy options for question creation

  • Short Answer questions have been enhanced. Instructors can select the new Students must answer all blanks correctly grading option, which is an all or nothing grading option, or Students will receive part marks, which divides the total points by the number of answers possible.

    screenshot of the options for how points are assigned to blanks in short answer questions


Thursday, February 16, 2017

New Quizzing Experience: Short Answer Question Updated

As another stage in the visual redesign of the Quizzes tool, the Short Answer (SA) question creation and editing layouts have been updated.



screenshot of the Short Answer question creation interface
Short Answer Question Creation Updated


Instructors can opt in or out of this new look and feel. For more information, please see the New Quizzing Experience module in the BOLT Help Course in BOLT. (In the BHC, Click Content > Coursework Help > Quizzes Help > New Quizzing Experience )

Friday, January 20, 2017

New: New Quizzing Experience

BOLT is going through a slow visual upgrade and redesign of the Quizzes tool. When you go create new questions in the Question Library, you will notice when creating certain questions that a new experience is available. A message should indicate that the new experience is on. Please note that for now you do have the option to turn off the new interface if you would like, but eventually the updated redesign will be the default experience.


screenshot of the new question creation experience message in the Question Library




The redesign is meant to bring the question to the forefront of your question creation experience and simplify the question creation process.


Some of the positive aspects of this redesign:
  • Question and answer choices are front and center
  • Additional options are now in a flyout Options menu- you can toggle whether or not to add them to your questions. This simplified layout gets them out of your way!
  • You can change the question type by selecting a different type of question from the question type drop down menu.


Currently, the question types available in the new experience are: True/False, Multiple Choice, and Long Answer. More question types will be updated as we receive monthly software updates for BOLT. New screens will appear as the updates occur. Stay tuned.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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