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Quizzes/Surveys Tool I

Quizzes are tests that your students take and submit online. Quiz questions can be multiple choice, matching, calculated, short answer, and paragraph questions. All quiz questions, except ones in paragraph format, can be automatically graded by the system. Those grades can then be returned to your students using Quizzes/Surveys.

Instructors are able to specify how and when students have access to quizzes and how students are able to view the results of quizzes. Additionally, instructors are able to grade or re-grade student submissions and override quiz grades for completed quizzes.

Taking a Quiz

WebCT will only allow the instructor to "preview" the quiz. In order to take a quiz, you will need to be logged in as a student. Once logged in with your student account, click on the Quiz Tool icon to get to the list of quizzes that are available. Click the name of the quiz to take or preview the quiz.

WebCT presents the student with a list of instructions. Once ready, the student clicks the "Begin quiz" button.

• Question status is tracked graphically to reflect changed answers.
• Students must click on "Save Answer" for each response.
• Quizzes include a dynamically updated quiz time providing students with an accurate gauge of their progress.
• After answering questions, the student must click on "Finish" to submit their quiz for grading. Students are then reminded about answers they changed but did not save.

Adding the Quiz Tool

• From the Homepage, click Control Panel.
• Click Add Page or Tool
• Under Evaluation and Activity Tools, Click Quizzes/surveys.
• On the Add Quizzes/surveys screen:
  • Enter a title
  • Select where to add links to the quiz tool, on the Course Menu and/or on an Organizer Page
  • Click Add

Creating a Question Database category

The Quiz tool contains a Question Database. This is the storage area for all quiz questions. All new questions must first be added to the database before they can be used in a quiz. Questions can be used simultaneously in multiple quizzes.

As a designer, you create categories to store and organize the questions in the question Database.

• Click the Quiz Tool
• Under the breadcrumbs, click Question Database. The Question Database screen appears
• In the Actions frame, under Options: Category, click Create category.
• In the Create category screen, enter a title
• Click Create

Adding Questions to the Question Database

You can create any of the following types of questions to add to your quiz:

• Multiple-choice: students select either one or multiple correct answers to a question.
• Matching: students match items in two columns
• Calculated: students answer a mathematical question. You specify the mathematical formula and the set of variables, along with a range of values for each variable. A set of answers is generated for a randomly selected set of variables.
• Short answer: students enter a word of short phrase, which is then matched against the possible answers
• Paragraph: students answer in a longer, essay-type format. The desinger or the teaching assistant must grade this type of question manually.

Sample Question: Multiple-choice

1. From the Question Database screen, in the Actions frame, under Options: Question, from the Create question drop-down list, select Multiple choice and click Go.
2. In the Multiple Choice Question screen, verify that you have selected the correct Category
3. Enter a Title
4. Enter a Question
5. Select the Format, plain text or HTML
6. If there is an image associated with the question, browse for the image file in your My Files area or upload from your computer.
7. Select the question settings:
   • Allow students to choose: One answer or Multiple answers
   • Scoring: Cumulative or All or nothing
   • Allow negative score: Yes or No
   • Answer layout: Vertical or Horizontal
   • Answer order: Randomized or As listed below
   • Indices: Numbers or Letters
8. Enter answers:
   • Select checkbox if this is the correct answer
   • Enter answer 1 in the Answer 1 text box
   • Select the answer format, plain text or HTML
   • The Value can be left blank for questions with only one correct answer however if there are multiple correct answers you can assign each correct answer a different value.
   • Enter Feedback for answer 1
   • Repeat for each answer
9. Enter General Feedback for the question
10. Click Save to save the question and return to the Question Database

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