How do quizzes work?

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. 

  • Text only: Students are presented with a stimulus without asking a question.
  • Multiple choice: Students select one answer out of a list of provided choices. You can mark multiple possible choices as correct and students can get credit by selecting any of the correct choices.
  • Multiple answer: Students can select one or more answers out of a list of provided choices. Students must select all correct choices (and none of the incorrect choices) for their response to be scored as correct.
  • Numeric entry: Students enter a numeric response. You can require an exact answer or specify a numeric tolerance to allow for rounding errors.
  • Short answer:  Students submit a short answer response. You can provide a correct response to automatically score their responses, or leave the correct response blank to grade student responses manually.
  • Essay: Students write a free-response answer. You can provide a minimum word count to automatically count any answer as correct, or leave the minimum word count blank to grade student responses manually.
  • Math expression: Students enter a mathematical expression using a graphical editor. Answers algebraically equivalent to the correct answer you will provide will be counted as correct.

  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.

When creating a multipart assignment with a quiz, under Options within the Standard assignment setup, you can choose to Gate assignment based on quiz progress. Learn more here.

Reusing a quiz

Students can complete a quiz once per assignment; however, the same quiz can be reassigned in future assignments. To do this, you'll need to either create a new assignment or duplicate the existing assignment. Follow these steps to reuse a quiz:

• Navigate to your course Assignments, and create a new assignment. Under Content, select the quiz, and update the rest of the assignment settings. 
  
  Your quiz is now re-assigned as a new assignment.
• Navigate to your course Assignments, and locate an assignment with a Quiz. Click Duplicate to copy the entire assignment. Edit the assignment settings as desired, and Save to create your duplicate assignment.
  
  Your quiz is now re-assigned as a 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.

    

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

    

  • 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.