How do quizzes work?

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Quizzes in Perusall are a unique content type that can be added to your course library and assigned only once within an assignment. This means each quiz can be used for a single assignment only. Quizzes do not allow conversations, so students will only see their individual work. As an instructor, you can use a quiz to add a set of questions before, after, or between other content, like readings, videos, or podcasts, within a singular assignment.

Quizzes can impact students' Perusall assignment scores in two ways:

  1. Based on correctness of student answers.
  2. Based on student participation, regardless of answers.

Creating a Quiz

To create a quiz in your Perusall Course, navigate to Library > Add Content > Quiz. In the resulting dialog, enter Questions and Settings.

  • Enter your Prompt for your first question, and select your Question format.

    There are seven Question formats

    As you enter each question, you can also add an explanation for the correct answer that students will see after quiz correct answers have been released.

    • Click + Add question to create a new question.
    • Select a question and click Duplicate question to copy it with its answer choices.
    • Select a question and click - Remove question to delete it.
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    Once you've created all of your questions, click Settings to finalize creating your quiz.

    1. Enter a Name for the quiz
    2. (optionally) Provide instructions for students
    3. Choose whether to Only award credit for questions answered correctly, Provide students with immediate feedback, and add a Thumbnail image for the quiz. 

    If you do not choose to Provide students with immediate feedback, students can enter or change their answers to quiz questions up until the scores are released.

After you click Save Changes, your quiz will appear in the Library as content that you can assign alone or as part of a multi-part assignment.

Once you release quiz assignment scores, students will see the correct answer to each quiz question, as well as the answer explanations.

Reusing a quiz

Students can only complete a quiz once, but you may want to reuse the questions from this quiz in a future assignment. To do this, you'll need to duplicate the quiz and assign the new version in your upcoming assignment. Follow these steps to copy a quiz:

  1. Navigate to your Library, locate and click on the desired quiz.
  2. On the right side of your screen, click Duplicate > Ok.
  3. Once completed, you can Edit the duplicate as desired, and Assign it to your new assignment.

Importing a Quiz

To import a quiz from your LMS, navigate to your Perusall Course home > Library > Add Content > Import Quiz [upload a QTI package]. Perusall supports the following quiz formats:

  1. QTI 1.2
  2. QTI 2.1
  3. Brightspace Package (Desire2Learn)

If you try to import a quiz question that our system doesn't support (e.g., a special type of question that isn't one of the types we support like multiple choice, numeric, etc), then we will make it a new type of "text-only" question (a question with text but no response required).

Reviewing Quiz Responses

Instructors have two ways of reviewing student responses to quizzes:

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    Click on analytics to view a breakdown in quiz grade reporting.

    • View the Quiz Report to see a summary of how all students answer each individual question.

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    • View the Quiz Responses to see each individual student's response to the quiz in the same place.

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    • View the Quiz Scores to see all students' names and results for quick comparison and review.

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    Click on Grade Assignment, and select Quiz Responses to see individual student responses, and you can see/manage each response Status.

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