Quizzes in myCourses

The Quizzes tool is where you create and edit quizzes. You can add questions and modify the general settings of your assessment. Use the Quizzes tool in myCourses to assess student knowledge and/or practice course material inside or outside of class. Create a quiz and move through the Properties, Restrictions, Assessment, Submission Views, and Reports Setup tabs to adjust quiz settings.

To know how to create questions, visit the article Create Questions in myCourses.

Topic	Description	Links
Overview	Create a new quiz or restore a previously deleted quiz.	Create and edit a Quiz in myCourses Create a quiz Edit a quiz Restore a quiz
Properties and restrictions	Modify quiz properties and restrictions, add questions, headers and footers, and change other general settings.	Properties and restrictions of quizzes in myCourses General Properties Questions Availability Dates & Conditions Timing and Display Attempts and Completion Evaluation and Feedback
Grade a Quiz	Grade a quiz by question or by individual attempts, and update scores.	Grade quizzes in myCourses Grade by question Grade by attempts Export quiz scores to the grade book Release quiz feedback to students Edit, regrade, and delete quiz questions in myCourses Updating the scores for a question Deleting a question from a quiz
Release Quiz Answers to Students	Allow students to view quiz answers and/or their responses after their quiz attempt has been graded.	Release quiz answers to students in myCourses Enable a quiz to show its answer page (publishing quiz attempts) Enable a quiz’s answer page to show the answers (setting up a Quiz Results Displays) Additional view option details View quiz answers as a student
Monitor Quiz Attempts	Submit all quiz attempts in progress to allow them to be graded. View a student’s event log to see when they saved their quiz answers and when their quiz was submitted.	Monitor quiz attempts in myCourses View a quiz event log for a student Submit a quiz attempt in progress Alert students of quiz attempts in progress Delete a quiz attempt for a student Allow a student to retake a closed quiz Restore a deleted quiz attempt for a student
Quiz Statistics and Reports	Set up a quiz report to view and download quiz statistics and other details.	View quiz statistics and reports in myCourses View quiz statistics View quiz question statistics Create a quiz report View quiz reports Delete quiz reports
Preview a Quiz	Preview a quiz before it is released to students.	Preview Quizzes, Surveys and Self Assessments in myCourses Preview a quiz Preview a question
Respondus	Use the Respondus LockDown Browser with the Quizzes tool in myCourses to restrict student Internet activity during a quiz. Use the Respondus 4.0 app as a quiz and survey authoring software.	Use Respondus LockDown Browser for assessments Enable Respondus LockDown Browser Student view of Respondus LockDown Browser Use Respondus for quiz and survey authoring Frequently asked questions (FAQs) Best practices & policies Training & documentation Support

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