How do I add a quiz to my GauchoSpace course site?

To Add a Quiz Activity to your course, follow these steps:

1. Log in to GauchoSpace and enter your course site.
2. Click Turn editing on in the upper-right corner.
3. In the topic or week block where you would like to place the assignment, click Add an activity or a resource and choose Quiz.
4. The Name field is required for this activity. This is the name your students will see on your course site and will be the name of the item in your Gradebook.
5. Calibrate the settings for your Quiz. To learn more about the settings, visit the Quiz Reference Guide. You will have the choice to change the Maximum Grade when adding questions to the quiz.
6. Click Save and return to course or Save and display to continue to adding questions to your quiz.

Questions may be created by the instructor, selected from a question bank, or both.

To learn about building a quiz question bank, see Creating a Quiz Question Bank.

1. If starting from the main course page, click Quizzes in the Activities block.
2. Click the appropriate Quiz name.
3. Once inside the Quiz, click Edit Quiz.
4. Click Add.
   
5. If you have already created a Question Bank of questions in the previous steps, you can select from question bank. If not you can select Add a new question to create a question not in your bank. Any questions you add here, will also be added into a specified Question Bank category for future use. You also have the choice of adding a random question from your Question Bank questions. This will allow each student to see a different question when taking your quiz.
   
6. If you selected:

• Add a new question, select a question type. Fill in the form associated with the question type you chose and provide default points for the correct answer. When finished, click Save changes. Click Save changes and continue editing, to access the Preview link for viewing your question. 
• Add from Question Bank, the popup will ask you to Select a category containing the questions you want to add. The number next to the category name indicates the current number of questions contained within a given category. After selecting a category, you will see a display with all of the questions in that category with corresponding check-boxes. Check the questions you want to add. If necessary, click the Preview magnifying glass to see a full view of a question. When you have finished selecting your questions, click Add selected questions to the quiz. Repeat for any other categories.
• Add a random question, the popup will direct you to pick a Category, whether you want to Include questions from subcategories too, and the Number of random questions wanted in the quiz. You can also choose to add a new category and a new random question to your Question Bank.

Before making a Quiz visible to students, you can preview it to experience the Quiz as a student would see it, as well as verify that questions are worded correctly, feedback is appropriate, and all other adjustments to Quiz and question settings are to your satisfaction. NOTE: Previewing will display the Quiz exactly as the student will see it, EXCEPT if you have turned on browser security, the security features will not be enabled in your preview. The Quiz will instead open in the same browser window and all keyboard/mouse activities will still be allowed (e.g., you will still be able to right-click to copy text).

1. Log in to GauchoSpace and enter your course site.
2. In the Activities block, click Quizzes.
3. Click the appropriate Quiz name.
4. Once inside the Quiz, click Preview in the Quiz Administration block.
5. You will now be taken into the quiz and can proceed through the questions and submitting your attempt.
6. While previewing, you can click Edit question for any question to make any changes. When you click Save changes after editing the question, you will be returned to the Preview quiz.
7. After submitting your Preview quiz, you will see the same final review screen as your students, including a points awarded for any automatically graded questions and feedback.
8. Click Finish review and you will see a summary of your attempt, including your final grade. If there is you attempted an essay question, it will always show "Not yet graded" out of the maximum points possible.
9. Preview quiz attempts are not saved.

To get the most accurate feel of the experience students will have when taking your quiz, we advise to create a "test student" account using a non-ucsb email address which can then be added to your course site. To do this, follow the instructions described here.

1. Log in to GauchoSpace and enter your course site.
2. In the Activities block, click Quizzes.
3. Click the appropriate Quiz name.
4. Once inside the Quiz, click Results in the Quiz Administration block. This will automatically take you to the Grades area of the quiz results.
5. Here you will find a form to produce a report of your quiz results that will also show individual grades. Use the Attempts from dropdown to change whose results you want to view from your users (students). Click Show report if you make any changes to the What to include in the report form.
6. After you have produced the report, you can download it in multiple formats, regrade individual or multiple quiz grades, delete selected attempts or review individual attempts. To regrade or delete, check the checkbox in-line with the student name. To review an attempt, click the review attempt link under the student's name.
7. If the quiz includes an essay question, you will need to manually grade that item.

When your quiz includes an essay question, you will need to manually grade it in order for the final grade to be entered into the Gradebook. If a student attempts the essay question, they will see "Your final grade for this quiz is Not yet graded/'maximum points possible'" when they go to review their grade.

1. In the Activities block, click Quizzes.
2. Click the appropriate Quiz name.
3. Once inside the Quiz, expand Results in the Quiz Administration block and click on Manual Grading.
4. You will see a list of questions that need to be manually graded. Click on either grade or grade all to see a list of each question by student.
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5. On the grading page, you can enter the any comments and the points (grade) for each student.
6. Click Save and go to next page when you have finished grading the essays on that page. Click Back to the list of questions to return to the Questions that need grading page.
7. After you have finished grading all essay questions, you can view the final grade that will be added to the Gradebook by clicking on Grades in the Results area of the Quiz Administration block.

It is possible to change even automatically generated quiz grades by overriding a quiz grade. This can be useful when granting a student another attempt or to give a student the opportunity to "take" a missed quiz for review. You also have the ability to grant a student extended time on a quiz when you have added a time limit to a quizzes settings.