Bb Vista allows you to create three different types of online quizzes including anonymous surveys, ungraded self-tests, and automatically graded quizzes. This tutorial explains how to create an automatically graded quiz using Bb Vista's assessment tool. Bb Vista uses the term assessment to refer to an online quiz, survey, or self-test. In this tutorial, the term assessment will refer to the Bb Vista Assessment tool where you create a quiz. A quiz is an online test that students take and submit for a grade.
Remember various features are covered in this tutorial, but not all. For more detailed information, download part of our Bb Vista training manual. This section can be found in the Creating and Managing Assessments section. There is also the online Bb Vista Help feature. When in the Assessment tool, select the Help link at the top of the screen. You will find valuable information to help you set up your quiz.
How Do I Create an Online Quiz?
- Log into Bb Vista by typing http://vista.nau.edu in the address bar, and select Go.
- Enter your NAU username and password to go to your My Vista page.
- Select the course where you would like to create the quiz (i.e., Sandbox - Linda Neff).
- Once you are in your course, select the Assessments tool under the Build tab.
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- Note: If the Assessments tool is not available, you will need to add the Assessment tool to your menu.
- Next, select Create Assessment.
- Enter a Title and Description of your quiz. In the Description textbox, be sure to tell the students how long they have to take the quiz, and how many times they are allowed to take it.
- The Item Visibility option is automatically set to Hide Item until you add questions to the quiz.
- Next, enter the Grade Book column name as you want it to appear to you and the students in the Grade Book tool.
- For this tutorial, you will select the Quiz option.
- If you want to duplicate a quiz, you have the option of creating a quiz based on an existing quiz. For this tutorial, we will accept the Template default option, "Do not base on an existing assessment."
- Select Save.
- Now you have created a quiz without any questions. Next, you will learn how to create and add questions to your quiz.
How Do I Create Questions and Add Them to the Quiz?
- Locate and select the quiz in the list of assessments.
- You can select questions that you have already created and stored in your Question Database or you can create new questions.
- For this tutorial, you will create new one question. Select Create Questions.
- You can create nine different types of questions: calculated, combination, fill in the blank, jumbled sentence, matcing, multiple choice, paragraph, short answer, and true/false questions. For this tutorial, we will create one multiple choice question.
- To create a multiple choice question, select Multiple Choice.
- Enter a question Title, for example "Question 1." A descriptive title will make it easier to find questions in the future like, "Natufian sites." This will help you identify the question when it is part of a random set of questions.
- Now type in your question in the Question text in the textbox.
- You can add and edit your question text by selecting the Enable HTML Creator button to open this relatively simple HTML editor.
- If you would like to add an image to your question text, select the Insert Image button.
- For the purposes of this tutorial, we will keep our question text unformatted, and we will not use the HTML editor.
- Leave the Image and Image Title textboxes blank.
- A multiple choice question can either have one answer or multiple answers. This question only has one answer, so select the One Answer option.
- Next, you will type in your answer options. The default number of answer options is five. For this question, we only have four answer options.
- Type in your answer options in the textbox below Correct response.
- Select the checkbox to designate the correct response.
- If you need to add more answers, select the Create Additional Answers button and a new answer fields will be automatically added to the end of your answer option list.
- You have several settings for each question. The following table summarizes your options.
Answer Settings Options
- For this tutorial, we will keep all the default options.
| Answer layout | Select Vertical to make the answers appear under each other in one column (recommended option). |
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| Select Horizontal to make the answers appear next to each other from left to right. | |
| Answer labels | Next to Answer labels, select if the answers should be identified by numbers or letters. |
| Randomize answer ordering | Select Yes to make answers appear in a random order each time the question appears in an assessment. |
| Select No to keep the answers in the same order every time they appear in an assessment. | |
| Grading scheme | Select Cumulative if there is only one correct answer or if there are multiple correct answers and you want each correct answer to count for a portion of the total score. |
| Select All or nothing if you want all correct answers to be selected for a score 100%. | |
| Allow negative score | Select Yes to deduct a percentage value for incorrect answers. |
| Select No to make incorrectly answered questions worth 0%. |
- You can expand More Options.
- For this tutorial, we will just Save the question.
- Next, you will see the question you just created listed inside the quiz.
- To change how many point the question is worth, type in the number of points in the Points textbox.
- Next, select Update Total.
- To view your quiz, go to the Build tab, and select the Assessment tool.
- The new Quiz 1 is listed on the right.
- To show the quiz to your students, select the gray action link and Show Item.
- To edit the properties of your quiz, select the gray action link and then Edit Properties.
- This is where you can edit how a quiz appears to students and also how results are released to them.
For more information on editing quiz properties, I encourage you to take a look at the Creating and Managing Assessments section of the Bb Vista training manual. Be sure to also use the online Bb Vista Help feature. When in the Assessment tool, select the Help link at the top of the screen. You will find valuable information to help you set up your quiz.
