Creating a New Quiz with Randomized Questions

Here’s how you can create a quiz in the “New Quiz” format on Bruin Learn with features like shuffling questions in a random order and enabling anonymous grading:

 

  1. Start by enabling New Quizzes in your Bruin Learn course page, if you haven’t yet: go to Settings in the left side menu → Feature OptionsNew Quizzes → click on enable / disable.

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  2. Now create your quiz: go to Quizzes in the left side menu → click on the blue “+ Quiz” button in the top right corner → select “New Quizzes” → “Submit”.

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  3. Fill out the required quiz details. If you would like instructors to be able to grade the quiz without seeing student names, select the “Anonymous Grading” box.

     

     

  4. Once you’ve filled out the settings, select “Build” at the bottom of your window. Important: in Classic Quizzes, you would click on “Save” and later maybe click on “Edit” to add questions. With new quizzes, that doesn’t work! Build is where you need to go to create or edit the actual quiz questions.

  1. Fill out the Quiz title and instructions, then click on the blue “Done“ button in the bottom right corner once you’re finished.

 

  1. Select “Settings” on the top left of your window to change or turn on any specific quiz features, such as “Shuffle Questions”, “Time Limit“, and more. “Shuffle Questions“ will allow you to show quiz questions in a different randomized order each time. There’s no “Save” button here: these settings will be saved automatically when you click on them!

 

 

 

  1. Once you’re done with settings, add or create quiz questions. Go back to “Build“ in the top left corner of your screen: at the bottom of the page, you will see a blue “+” button to begin adding content.

 

  1. Let’s add questions to this quiz:

    1. If you would like to create individual questions from scratch just for that quiz, select your preferred question type (like “Fill in the Blank”, “Essay”, etc.) and add questions one by one.

    2. If you would like to create a Question Bank, so you can reuse the same set of questions in other quizzes and courses, select the “Use Question Bank” button in the top right corner.

 

  1. Let’s try using a question bank (if you’re not interested in that, skip ahead to point 21!) Now that we’re in the Question Bank screen, you have two options:

    1. Use an existing question bank: select one of the available question banks from the drop down menu, filtering by the features listed. Now skip ahead to point 19 (the next few points here will focus on creating and filling a new question bank from scratch!)

    2. Create a new question bank: click on the blue + Bank button in the top right corner.

  2. Let’s create a new question bank. Click on the blue “+ Bank“ in the top right corner, name your question bank, then click on the blue “Create Bank“ button.

  1. You’ll see the newly created question bank appear among the list of available options. Click on the bank you wish to put in your quiz:

 

  1. If you select the new question bank that you just created, you will be alerted to the fact that the bank is empty (we haven’t created any questions yet). That’s okay - click on the “X“ button in the top left corner to leave this area, and we’ll create questions next. For now, we just set up the container where questions will go.

 

  1. Now let's create questions to fill our new question bank. Click on the three-dot button in the top right corner and select “Manage Item Banks” to begin this process.

  1. Select the bank you wish to manage:

  1. Now let’s add questions to the bank. Click on the blue “+ New“ button in the top right corner, then select the type of question you would like to add:

  1. Give each question a title and prompt as required. Select from the settings that are appropriate for each type of question. Click on “Done” at the bottom of the page to save each question after you’re done editing it. Repeat this process until you have all the questions you need for that bank.

 

  1. Once you’re done creating new questions, click on the grey “Return” button in the top right corner to go back to the original “Build” screen.

 

 

  1. You are now back at the original build screen. Now, let’s add the bank we just created to the New Quiz. This will allow us to transfer all the questions into the quiz at once. Select “Item Banks” in the upper right corner.

 

 

  1. Select the question bank you just created.

 

  1. If you want to bring the entire question bank into your quiz, click on the grey “All / Random“ button. If you want to hand pick only a few questions for that specific quiz, manually select them using the blue “+“ button next to each question. When you’re done selecting questions, click on the “X“ button in the top left corner.

 

 

 

  1. Your question bank may have a lot of questions in it, but you may want to only include a small random sample of them in this specific quiz. To edit how the questions are displayed to the students, click on the grey “pencil” icon on the right.

    1. If you want your quiz to have all the questions from the question bank, keep the “Use all questions” option.

    2. But suppose your question bank is a list of different essay prompts, and you want each student to randomly receive one of them; or suppose you prepared a large question bank with 100 questions, but you just need to create a 20-question quiz. In that case, click on the “Randomly select questions” option, then specify how many questions you want to give to the students with the “Number of questions“ option. In the end, click “Done“ at the bottom of the window.

 

 

  1. When all your questions are set, you may want to preview the quiz, to check what it looks like from the students' point of view. Click on the “Preview“ button with the little eye on the right. If you don't want to do any further changes for now, save and leave this area by clicking on “Return” in the top right corner.

     

     

  2. When it’s time for the students to access the quiz, don’t forget to publish it. Find your quiz in the list of available quizzes in your Bruin Learn course page: if it has a green check mark next to it, it means it's published and visible to students; if it has a grey stop sign, it means it’s unpublished and invisible to them. Click on the publish / unpublish button as needed.

  3. Good luck creating your quiz, and good luck to your students taking it!

 

Quiz Bank Editing & Ownership

  • When an item bank is created in new quiz, it is only visible and editable by the creator

    • To restate, If RITC A create the Item Bank for a new quiz, and RITC B goes to make a change, it will look like there is no item bank available to RITC B

  • To share it with others, the original creator of the item bank must go to it and select,

  • A share screen will pop up where you can add individuals by their email and give view or edit access

  • The other option as a RITC is to act as the original creator and then you will also be able to view the item bank