Editing quiz settings

Once the quiz is created it must be made available to the students. Within Quiz Settings you specify:

· Basic settings

· Availability of the quiz

· Selective release

· Security settings

· Submission settings

· How the quiz results are displayed

Accessing quiz settings

1. Click on the Quiz link from the Homepage, Course Menu or Organizer Page. Click on the Quiz/Survey title to access the Quiz/Survey Editor screen (for example, Exam 1).

2. Click on the Edit quiz settings button. The Quiz Settings screen displays as partly seen in Figure 4-10.

Figure 4-10

In the following subsections the processes for the Quiz Settings are separately described.

Basic settings

1. Click the check box to the right of the heading Question titles so that a checkmark appears if you want the question titles to show when the student completes the quiz.

· Question delivery choose one of three options:

ù Deliver all the questions at once.

ù Deliver one question at a time, where any question can be revisited.

ù Questions will appear one at a time. Students must answer or skip each question before proceeding. Once a question has been answered or skipped it cannot be revisited.

2. Select the radio button next to your question delivery choice.

· Quiz duration: This is the time allocated for the student to complete the quiz. If this block is left blank the students will not have a time limit in which to complete the quiz.

3. Place your cursor in the Quiz duration text block and type in the duration of the quiz in minutes, hours or days (e.g. 60 minutes).

4. Select the relevant option from the drop-down menu displaying the choices of minute(s), hour(s) or day(s).

· The option to Disallow answer submission if time has expired is enabled if the check box is ticked. The designer must use this option with care as once a student has spent some time formulating an answer and he/she submits the answer a couple of seconds late, the answer will not be accepted and the information is lost.

· If the designer leaves the Disallow answer submission if time has expired option unchecked, the designer will still know if any student submitted questions late, and how much extra time the student used as the time each question is saved is logged.

5. Select the number of attempts the students may have at the quiz from the Attempts allowed drop-down menu. You may select 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or unlimited attempts.

6. Attempts separation: For quizzes that allow multiple attempts the designer has the option of setting up a minimum separation time between quiz attempts in minutes, hours or days. If only one attempt is allowed, skip the attempts separation choices.

7. Type in the Minimum time between attempts for quiz attempts in the number text box provided.

8. Select the appropriate option from the drop-down box displaying minute(s), hour(s) or day(s) to the right of Minimum time between attempts.

Availability

In the Availability section of Quiz Settings (Figure 4-11) you decide on the date and time period that the quiz is made available to the students. The designer does this by entering a date the quiz is available from, and a date the quiz is available to.

1. If you click on the Allow access now button the quiz will be made available to the students immediately. See Figure 4-11.

OR

2. If you click on the Deny access now button the quiz will be made unavailable. See Figure 4-11.

3. Type in the day, month, year, hour and minute in each of the respective text boxes for both the Available after and Available until options.

Figure 4-11

Selective release

If the exam or quiz will be offered to all the students, skip the selective release section. You don’t have to add anything. However if you are going to release the quiz or exam to only a few students then you can use this section to control the release.

The first option is to select specific students.

1. Click on the Select button. The Member Selection screen displays.

Figure 4-12

2. Select the members to release the quiz to by clicking on the check box to the left of the student name. A checkmark appears in the Status check box of the selected students.

3. Click on the Update button. The selected names are pasted into the Release to text box, seen in Figure 4-11. The quiz or exam will now be released only to the students you’ve selected.

The second option is to release the quiz according to specific criteria, for example, Section number. The different options the designer may base the quiz release on are displayed in Figure 4-13.

To the right of Release based on there are three information input boxes. They are labelled 1 to 3.

1 comprises of the Student Management column labels for the course.

2 are comparison options to compare the first and third information input boxes. They include: Contains, Equals, Before, After, Starts with, Ends with, Less than, Greater than, Blank, Not Blank.

3 is the text box that you type in the relevant information according to your selection in 1 and 2.

For example, the quiz can be released to all students in Section 001.

Figure 4-13

4. Select the options that you want to base your quiz release on.

5. Select the Hide check box if you do not want the students who do not meet the selective release criteria to see the quiz on the main page.

6. If you are not using selective release, leave this whole section blank.

Security

Skip the Security settings as they usually refer to testing done in specific high-stakes testing centers.

Submission

The Submission settings (Figure 4-14) are optional.

· If the designer places a message in the Submission message text box, the message will be displayed to the student once the student has submitted the quiz.

· Email submissions: The designer may send a text copy of each student’s quiz to an external e-mail address by typing in a valid e-mail address in the text box provided.

1. Type in a message in the Submission message text box if required. For example “Your exam has been submitted.” You can also leave this blank if you wish.

2. In the Email submissions text box type the e-mail address to send a copy of each student submission to, if required. Leave this blank unless you want every student’s quiz results emailed to you!

Results

The Results section of Quiz Settings allow you to control what the students will see when they review their quiz or exam results.

Figure 4-15

· Student score: If the designer has allowed multiple attempts at the quiz the Student score option is where the designer sets which score to use for the student’s grade. The designer may use the first, latest, highest or average score.

Note: Only fully graded quizzes are used in the score calculation. For the calculation of question statistics, only the first quiz attempt is recorded.

· Student score release: This is where the designer sets up whether or not to release score, to the students. There are five options:

ù Release the score once the quiz has been submitted: This is the usual choice. This option will allow the student to view the grades of the quiz immediately. This option would be best to use if the quiz the student has completed can be graded completely by WebCT, i.e. a quiz that excludes paragraph-type questions.

ù Release the score once the quiz has been submitted and all the questions have been graded: This option will allow the student to view the grades of the quiz only once all the questions in the quiz have been graded. This option can be used when the quiz contains paragraph-type questions that need to be marked manually by the instructor.

ù Release the score once the availability period has ended: This option will allow the student to view the grades of the quiz once the availability period of the quiz has ended.

ù Release the score once the availability period has ended and all the questions have been graded: This option will allow the student to view the grades of the quiz once the availability period of the quiz has ended and the instructor has marked all the paragraph-type questions in the quiz.

ù Do not release the score: This option does not allow the students to view the grade of the submitted quiz. If this option is selected, the designer will have to come back and change this setting when they want to release the scores to the students.

· Release column: The designer can release the quiz score to the students so that they can view it in the My Grades tool by selecting Yes for this option (recommended).

1. Select the desired options for the Student score, Student score release and Release column options.

· Student results display: This setting seen in Figure 4-16 allows the designer to decide how the quiz results will be displayed to the student.

Figure 4-16

2. The designer must select the options by clicking on the check box to the left of the chosen option, so that a checkmark appears.

The options are:

a) Show the question text for each question.

b) Show the student's response for each question (requires: a).

c) Show the evaluation of the student's response only (requires: a, b; excludes: d).

d) Show the full evaluation of each question (requires: a, b; excludes: c).

e) Show the correct answer for each question (requires: a, b).

f) Show the feedback for each question.

g) Show the student's score for each question.

h) Show all the grader comments for the quiz.

i) Show the student's total score for the quiz.

If you want to show the student the score with no further information, simply select the last option, i).

Saving the settings

1. Click on the Update button to save the quiz settings. The Quiz Editor screen is displays.

2. Click on the Quiz link in the WebCT breadcrumbs to return to the Quizzes/Surveys screen as seen in Figure 4-17.

Figure 4-17

Notice that once the quiz settings have been completed, the availability and duration of the quiz is now displayed in the Quizzes/Surveys screen.