This article is for any instructor who wants to use Courseware's graded quizzing engine. That engine delivers graded quizzes to students, students take that quiz, and results report to a grade book. The engine has these features:
- Premade quizzes instructors can assign as is
- The option to edit which questions appear in any premade quiz
- The option to edit any preexisting quiz question or answer
- The option to create new quiz questions
- Student performance reports to a grade book
With these features, instructors can quickly assign a premade quiz, edit any premade quiz as needed, or author new quiz questions and quizzes. Instructors can also track student performance.
In addition to the information below, this Spring 2020 webinar walks through the features in Courseware version 2.5's instructor quiz and question banks.
Assigning a Quiz
Quiz assignments are made up of one or more quizzes from the Courseware Quiz Bank. You can use it to test your students' knowledge.
- Start by selecting the "+ Create New Assignment" button in the upper right corner of your course.
- Under the "Visible Body Content" header, choose "Graded Quiz Bank" and select "Continue."
- Use the filters and search bar to find the graded quizzes that you want to assign.
- Use the checkboxes to select your quizzes and then select "Continue" in the top right corner.
- On the following page:
- Name your quiz assignment.
- Select a due date.
- Choose if you want to delay your quiz assignment's release. If so, select "Yes" in the dropdown and choose a release date.
- Select a folder for your quiz assignment or create a new one.
- Select a point value for the quiz, and if to display student results as points or percentages in the grade book.
- Choose if you want to add a limit on the amount of time all students have to complete the quiz.
- Choose if and when you want to display correct answers to students.
- Add an optional description.
- Select “Save Draft” or “Publish.”
- Note: You can let students know the graded quiz assignment is available by checking “Send Email Notification” before selecting “Publish.”
- In the popup that asks “Are you sure you wish to publish?” select “OK.”
Creating a Quiz Using Existing Questions
Follow the steps below to make your own custom quizzes using questions from the Courseware Quiz Bank or some questions of your own.
- Log in to your Courseware dashboard and choose the Quiz Bank.
- Select “+Create new quiz.”
- Use the dropdown list to choose the type of quiz you’d like to create and select “Continue.”
- Use the filters to find the questions you want, and select them using the checkboxes. Once you’ve chosen the questions for your quiz, select “Continue.”
- If you want to write a new question, select “+Create New Question” to access the Question Bank. This will save your quiz as a draft.
- For more information, read about writing quiz questions here.
- In the Create Your Quiz page
- Name your quiz
- Categorize your quiz
- Configure your quiz (determine question order, pool the quiz, assign point values, preview questions, delete questions, and add more questions)
- Save the quiz.
Editing a Quiz
Follow 5 simple steps to edit Visible Body’s graded quizzes.
- Log in to your Courseware dashboard and choose the Quiz Bank.
- Choose a quiz using the filters or keyword search bar, and select “Clone.”
- In the popup, enter your quiz name in the text box and select “Save.” This brings you back to the Quiz Bank.
- Find your quiz copy at the top of the list in the Quiz Bank and select “Edit.”
- In the Edit Your Quiz page you can
- Change your quiz name
- Categorize your quiz
- Configure your quiz (change question order, pool the quiz, change point values, preview questions, delete questions, and add questions that exist in the quiz bank)
- Save the quiz.
After you’ve saved your quiz, you can
- Assign it
- Create another quiz
- Select "Done" to return to the Quiz Bank
Editing an Existing Quiz Question
- Log into your Courseware dashboard and choose the Question Bank.
- Find a question using the filters or keyword search bar.
- Select “Clone” next to the question to open the question editing page.
- In the question editing page:
- For multiple choice questions, you can edit the question and answers, add an image, categorize your question, and then select “Save and Preview” or “Save Question.”
- For dissection questions, you can edit the question, replace the 3D view, change the correct answer selections, categorize your question, and then select “Save and Preview” or “Save Question.”
Authoring a New Quiz Question
- Log into your Courseware dashboard and choose the Question Bank.
- Select “+Create New Question.”
- Choose the type of question using the drop-down list and select “Continue."
- In the Make a New Question page:
- For multiple-choice questions, write your question and answers, add an image if desired, categorize your question, and then select “Save and Preview” or “Save Question.”
- For short answer questions, write your question, add an image if desired, categorize your question, and then select “Save and Preview” or “Save Question.”
- For dissection questions, write your question, choose a 3D view, select correct answers, categorize your question, and then select “Save and Preview” or “Save Question.”
Note: Instructor accounts have a file storage limit of 10 GB. Every time you upload a file or image to Courseware, you use up some of this space. You can check how much storage you have used by selecting the dropdown menu in the upper righthand corner of Courseware.
Check Spelling with Fill-in-the-blank Questions
With some creativity, there’s a wide array of quizzing possibilities with this tool. Another option is to use these questions as a way to check your students’ spelling of anatomical terms as seen here:
Step1: Create your view in Human Anatomy Atlas.
- Zoom into your structure and make sure all important details are visible.
- Use the draw tool to add an arrow to designate a structure.
- Use the “Download Screenshot” button to save the picture.
Step 2: Create your quiz question.
- Create a short answer style question with your picture from step 1. you can be as creative or direct as you like asking about your designated structure!
Step 3: Make your quiz.
- Follow all the same steps for creating a quiz as usual, but remember to uncheck the “Randomize question order” option in step 3.
Content in the Quiz and Question Banks
The Courseware Quiz Bank contains hundreds of quizzes created with questions from the Question Bank, which has 1,563 multiple choice questions, 22 short answer questions, and 2,033 dissection questions. These quizzes are ready to be assigned as-is and are great for testing students' general knowledge.
Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple choice questions consist of four to five answers, one of which is the correct answer. You can also upload a picture along with your question to help illustrate your quiz topic.
By writing in your own answers you can frame questions in many interesting ways, not only asking students to find the one correct answer. Distractors could be all true statements with one false answer, or each answer could be a list of steps in a physiological process with only one being in the correct order.
Short Answer Questions
Short answer questions offer a more open-ended format for students to really express everything they know on a topic. You can upload a picture to go along with your questions just like in multiple-choice questions, but students now have a large text box to offer long-form answers.
Dissection Questions
Dissection questions feature a 3D view for students to manipulate and explore to find the prompted anatomical structure.
When creating a dissection question, you can select as many or as few correct structures as you like. This allows for a wide range of questions from big picture systems overviews to granular single structure identification.