Finished Product
These steps will create a quiz that has multiple videos and multiple questions. Specifically, each question will have one video and a corresponding question as illustrated below.
Open Quizzes Tool
- From inside your course in Brightspace, select COURSE ADMIN then QUIZZES
- Select NEW QUIZ
Quiz Properties
- Complete the NAME field with the title of the Quiz
Add Quiz Questions
Select the ADD/EDIT QUESTIONS button
Select the NEW button
From the drop-down menu select the type of question you want use.
Written Response (WR) allows students to write a multi-paragraph paper.
Short Answer (SA) allows students to write a sentence or two.
Select the middle of the Question Text square until the tool bar appears.
Select the Insert Stuff icon
From the Insert Stuff menu, select the option of where your video lives:
your computer or YouTube are very common choices.
Remember to use a video that is captioned. If you have questions about captioning please email [email protected].
If you are using a video from YouTube, you will then be prompted to search for the video. Type your videos title in the search field and select the SEARCH button.
You will have vetted the video so now you just select the video you want and select the NEXT button at the bottom of the page.
Select INSERT.
Now the video is loaded as part of the question text. You will need to type in the question you want students to answer under the video.
On the right-side of the screen, you can see a preview of how the question will appear to students.
Select Enable HTML Editor for student responses if you want students to be able to include images, tables, formatting, etc or you can leave it as text only.
Under Points, select the number of points the question will be worth.
Select the SAVE button when you are done creating this question.
Select the SAVE and NEW option if you want to start creating the next question.
Finish creating quiz
Now that you have created all your questions, you need to complete the rest of the quiz creation. Select DONE EDITING QUESTIONS
Some fields to complete:
- Questions per page- to display all the questions at once leave this blank. To display one question per page type in '1' and select on apply.
- Paging: Select the box if you want to prevent students from looking back at questions they have already answered.
- Shuffle: Select this box if you want the questions to be in a different order for each student.
Restrictions Tab
Select the RESTRICTIONS tab to complete the due date and availability settings and timing option.
Assessment Tab
Select the ASSESSMENT tab to tie to a grade item, select the number of attempts and chose the computer to auto-grade.
Computer can only reliably grade multiple choice questions.
Even if you are manually grading the questions select Allow automatic export to grades if you want the grades and feedback to be visible to students as soon as you have finished grading each quiz.