Before Your Course Begins
12 Previewing Quizzes
Previewing quizzes before the start of a course serves several crucial purposes:
- Accuracy of Content: By previewing quizzes, instructors can ensure that the quiz questions and answers are accurate and align with the course content. This can help prevent any misunderstandings or confusion during the actual quiz.
- Technical Functionality: It allows instructors to check the technical aspects of the quiz, such as whether all questions and answer choices are displaying correctly if any multimedia content like images or videos are loading properly, and if the quiz submission process works smoothly.
- Difficulty Level and Coverage: Previewing quizzes can also help instructors assess if the questions are of an appropriate difficulty level and if they cover the course material evenly and comprehensively.
- Instructions and Feedback: Instructors can check if the instructions for each question are clear and that the automatic feedback provided after each question or at the end of the quiz is accurate and helpful.
- Accessibility: It’s crucial to ensure that quizzes are accessible to all students, including those using assistive technologies. Previewing allows instructors to check accessibility and make any necessary adjustments.
By taking the time to preview quizzes, instructors can identify and rectify any potential issues, thus ensuring a smoother, more effective assessment experience for students. This proactive step can also reduce the likelihood of receiving student queries or complaints about the quizzes once the course is underway.
Previewing Quizzes as a Learner
To confirm content and grading, preview a quiz as a learner by taking the steps outlined below and as demonstrated in the video:
- Select Assessments in the navbar, and then Quizzes
- Beside the quiz you would like to preview, select the downward arrow and select Preview
- Review the Description, Quiz Details, and Introduction sections to ensure accuracy (Please note: depending on the quiz settings, some of these sections may not be displayed)
- Select the Start Quiz button on the bottom left
- On the confirmation pop-up window, click OK
- Review the questions and answer options as you complete the quiz (Please note: you can choose answers at random as this is only a preview)
- If there are more than one page of questions, click on Next Page to continue
- When you are done, click Save All Responses and then Go to Submit Quiz
- At the bottom of the quiz submission confirmation page, click Submit Quiz
- On the confirmation pop-up window, click Yes, submit quiz
- You are now looking at the quiz submission view page.
- If your quiz has multiple submission views…
- Toggle between them using the Submission View dropdown menu (Please note: this menu automatically displays “Default View,” but the submission view shown below is not the default. This is a bug in Avenue to Learn. To view the default submission view, select a different option and then re-select “Default View”)
- Review the release date of each submission view and their functionalities. These dates may need to be edited depending on the needs of the course. Please see separate instructions on updating quiz availability dates.
- If the submission view displays which answer options are correct for each question, make sure you check that these answers are truly correct
- If the submission view does not display the correct answers, you can preview questions individually by following the instructions below
- Click on Exit Preview when you are done
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Previewing Quiz Questions Individually
- Select Assessments in the navbar, and then Quizzes
- Beside the quiz you would like to preview, click the downward arrow and select Edit Quiz
- Scroll down to locate the Quiz Questions section where all the quiz questions are linked
- Click or tap on each question(i.e. the blue text)
- In the pop-up window, you can previewthe question
- Check that the blue arrowpoints to the correct answer
- If the question contains a Comment/feedback or a Hint, review those as well
- Select Close when you are done
- Proceed to the next question
- When you have previewed all questions and ensured accuracy, you can click Cancel (this avoids Avenue to Learn saving any unintended quiz modifications)
If you require assistance editing a quiz question, please contact ccecrsdv@mcmaster.ca for Avenue to Learn instructor support.
References
Brightspace Tutorials. (2018b, November 1). Quizzes – preview a quiz as a learner – instructor. YouTube. https://youtu.be/67pbYL9uDFI
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (March 14 Version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/