Checklist for Launching a Quiz
The following are some properties you should check before launching your quiz in your course.
- Communicate about Quizzes with Students – Review this page for suggestions of ways to communicate with your students about the Quiz, including policies for your Syllabus, defining cheating, and communicating expectations before the quiz.
- Check Quiz Settings (See Create a Quiz page for details about each task below)
- Quiz Name – Is the name consistent between your syllabus, quiz title/name, and the gradebook?
- Add a Quiz Description – The description is shown before quiz availability and may include basic information such as the types of questions or the content (chapters 1-3, for example) the quiz is covering.
- Set/confirm dates – Due Dates, Availability Start Date, and Availability End Date
- Visibility – Set the quiz to visible
- Create Release Conditions (optional)
- Setup Special Access for users who have accommodations or need an alternative due date/time.
- Add a password (optional) for the quiz
- Set Timing preferences (time limits, grace periods, and exceeded time behavior)
- Set paging preferences (page breaks and ability to go back to previously pages)
- Set quiz question shuffling preferences
- Set preferences for displaying hints and/or alerts
- Add a header or footer to the quiz (optional)
- Set Number of Attempts and overall grade calculation
- Set the Notification email (optional)
- Check Grades Settings (See the Associate a quiz with a grade item page)
- Associate the quiz to the gradebook item
- Set preferences for auto-grading and publishing of grades
- Set preferences for what students see upon submission of the quiz
- Check Grade Item (See the Edit a Grade item page)
- In the Grades tool: Quiz Grade Item – Is the name consistent between your syllabus, quiz title/name, and the gradebook?