The Quizzes tool can be used for formal or informal assessments and self-assessments. You can create several question types, most of which can be graded automatically for you, and quizzes can be connected to the Grades tool so that once the quiz is graded, that grade is sent directly to a grade item. Questions can also be shuffled or randomized (using a Question Pool). In addition, quizzes can be timed (although we recommend not setting a time limit to support students learning online in a time of crisis) and can integrate various media types (video, audio, images).
The Question Library is an integral part of of the Quiz tool. If you are wanting to use the Question Pool feature, questions must be in the Question Library. We recommend that all questions are created inside of the Question Library and then used to create a Quiz or Exam. This way, if the actual quiz is deleted, the questions still remain and can be used again.
Here is some information on using the Quizzes tool in D2L. Tutorials for students related to the Quizzes tool specifically are at the bottom of this page (and also on the D2L for Students page).
For Instructors
The Question Library
- Creating Questions in the Question Library
- Creating Short Answer Questions
- Creating Multiple Choice Questions
- Creating True False Questions
- Creating Written Response Questions
- Creating Multi-Select Questions
- Creating Multi Short Answer Questions (and how they differ from Short Answer Questions)
- Creating Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
- Creating Matching Questions
- Creating Ordering Questions
- Creating Arithmetic Questions
- Creating Significant Figures Questions
- Creating Likert Questions (NOTE: Likert Questions can only be used in Surveys!)
- Importing Questions from a Quiz into the Question Library
- Importing Questions from Publisher Question Banks
- Importing Questions from a Document using Respondus 4.0 (opens a link to the Respondus site)
Creating Quizzes
- Creating a Quiz: The Basics
- Creating Pages of Questions for a Quiz
- Setting up Special Access for Accommodations
- Setting a Student’s Quiz Accommodations from the Classlist
- Controlling What a Student can See, When (general)
- Creating an Additional Submission View for a Quiz
- Creating an Additional Submission View for a Specific Quiz Attempt
- Resetting Dates for an Additional Submission View (i.e., after copying it from an old course)
- Using Respondus Lockdown Browser: Note that we recommend NOT using this tool if at all possible. Rather, consider reviewing your assessments with an instructional designer.
- Accommodations for D2L Exams that Require Respondus Lockdown Browser
- Creating a Question Pool in a Quiz
- Importing Questions from the Question Library into a Quiz Section
- Adding Text or Images to Appear above a Set of Questions
- Adding Bonus Questions to a Quiz
- Creating Quiz Reports
Managing Quizzes
- Shuffling Questions in a Quiz
- Previewing Quizzes
- Viewing (“Grading”) Quiz Preview Attempts
- Printing Quizzes
- Bulk Edit in Quizzes
- The More Actions Menu
- The Quiz Action Menu
Grading Quizzes
- Releasing Quiz Marks to Attempts
- Sending Quizzes Grades to the Gradebook after the Quiz has Started
- Grading or Re-grading a Quiz (includes a section on Grading by Question and Blind Marking!)
- Exporting Written Response Question Answers for Reviewing Offline
- Viewing Students Who Have Not Attempted a Quiz
- Resetting Quiz Attempts
- Reopening Quizzes or Submitting Quizzes for Students
- Exempting Students from Quizzes
- Rescoring a Quiz Question that was Incorrect
- Viewing Quiz Statistics ( to view Class Averages, Question Statistics, and Question Details)
- Viewing Attempt Logs (to see when students started a quiz, submitted a quiz, etc.)
- How the Feedback Options work in Quizzes (and Questions)
For Students
Completing and Submitting a Quiz
How Saving and Submitting Works
Adding an Attachment to a Written Response Question
Checking Quiz Submissions