Creating graded self-paced quizzes

Create or generate questions to produce a self-paced quiz that can be linked through to the grade-centre.

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 Instructions

1. Open the Survey Dashboard

After you create a session, you are automatically taken into Polls dashboard. If you are returning to Vevox, click on your session name. Click on Surveys in the left-hand side.

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Then select + Create New

This opens up the New Survey interface. You can use the AI quiz generator to generate questions on a particular topic or create your own questions:

2. Generating questions

You can use the AI quiz generator to create some questions, although they can be a bit generic and sometimes the answers will be wrong, so check them carefully.

Use the arrow in the Add Question button to open up the menu and then click on AI quiz.

Click on the + AI quiz, then add a topic or prompt, the more detailed and specific the better, select the number of questions you want to generate. Click on Generate.

You can repeat the generate step to produce more questions.

This will generate a list of questions, review, edit or delete questions by using the three dots beside each question.

3. Adding questions

You can also add your own questions to the quiz.

Click on Add Question button.

This brings up the Create Question dialogue box. Optionally, you can add an image to a question; click on the image icon to upload the image.

Then add the question into the Question title textbox and add multiple-choice answers.

Select the correct answer, by clicking on the A-tick and add an explanation for the correct answer if you are using this option.

Rename your quiz to something meaningful by clicking on the default name and typing e.g. “Intro quiz”

4. Add your quiz to Blackboard.

Vevox is an add-on to Blackboard; therefore you need to use Content Market to add it to Blackboard learning content.

Within the course Content area, go to the location you wish to add your poll e.g. Week 5 folder, click on the circle with the plus to add content:

This opens the Add content menu… select Content Market.

This opens up the list of ‘Institution tools’, arranged in alphabetic order, select Vevox.

This opens up the Vevox tool, select the session that contains your quiz …

Then select the name of your quiz from the list of Surveys

Then select whether you want participants to be Anonymous or Identified e.g. whether you want the participants’ marks sent to the grade centre.

• Anonymous = Participants are fully anonymous therefore no grading information can be passed back to the VLE/LMS

• Identified = Names will be hidden for other participants but the participants identity will be visible in the data reports and will pass back correct answer grading information to the VLE/LMS 

As it’s graded I chose Identified.

This brings up Scoring options, choose how many points a srtudent is awarded for answering a question (Participation) and answering a question correctly (Correct answers).

Select Done.

5. Editing the quiz in Blackboard

You can use the ellipsis (three dots) to access drop-down menu. Select the Edit option.

This opens up the right hand settings panel. Click on the name of your quiz to change the title of the quiz

Change ‘Visible to students' to Hidden from students’ until the students are ready to complete the quiz.

You can also set a Due date by clicking on the Date textbox and using the drop-down calendar.

You can select the Mark category e.g. Quiz or Test (if you use mark categories)

You can add a Description and then click Save.

The quiz will be hidden.

When you are ready to release the quiz, make it available to students in Blackboard, then click on the link to open the Vevox dashboard and Start session and Start quiz.

The quiz is now ready to be completed by students.

6. Linking through to the Gradebook

Click on the Gradebook link in the top menu,

… the quiz will appear in the list of assignments:

7. Students’ completion of the quiz

Direct the students to follow the link in Blackboard, the quiz will open up for them directly.

Once students have completed their quiz, they will be given their score (they have one attempt).

Students can then click on Individual questions to get feedback on their performance e.g.

Once students have completed the quiz, their score will appear in their Gradebook

Instructors can view student’s marks in Gradebook as normal:

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Useful Links

Vevox guide: How to configure sessions and link through to Gradebook