Editing Assessment Properties (formerly Settings)

Assessment Properties control how a quiz is delivered, when it is delivered, and to whom it is delivered.

 

  • Click on the grey arrow to the right of the title of the Assessment
  • Select Edit Properties
The Properties window opens.

 

  • Title: Enter or edit the quiz title.
  • Assessments are hidden by default. To make visible, click Show Item.
 

  • Grade Book column name: Enter the name you would like to appear in the Grade Book tool.

 

  • Question delivery: Specify how questions will be delivered.

 

  • Question titles: Select if you want the question titles to be displayed when the quiz is delivered.

 

  • Display Assessment: The default setting has the Assessment display in a separate window.

 

  • Duration: Specify duration on assessment. Disallow answer submission if time has expired: Select if you want to disallow students from submitting quizzes after the specified time has expired.

 

  • Attempts allowed: Select the number of times a student can attempt the quiz.

 

  • Attempts separation: If Attempts allowed is more than 1, set the length of time that the student must wait before making another attempt.

 

  • Student score: Specify whether Students receive their first, latest, or highest score, or an average of all their attempts for the quiz.

 

  • Student score release: Select the desired setting for releasing scores to Students.

 

  • Statistics release: Allow students to view class performance statistics.

 

Dates Available

  • Dates Available:
    • Start time: default is immediate. Edit settings if desired.
    • End time: Default is Unlimited. Edit settings if desired.
  • Note: If you have specified release criteria for the quiz, ensure that any date criteria you have set does not conflict with the Dates Available settings.

 

Results Properties

  • Results Properties: Specify how you would like assessment results displayed to students. The Show the question text checkbox must be selected for any subordinate checkboxes to be selected.
  • The same is true for the Show the student's response for each question checkbox and its subordinates.
  • Selecting Show the evaluation of the student's response will display the value assigned to the question.
  • Selecting Show the full evaluation of each question will display the value assigned to the question, and the response to the question.
  • Selecting items i and ii under a) Show the student's response for each question is essentially the same as selecting item iii under a) Show the student's response for each question.
  • E-mail results to Enter the external email address to which you want students' results to be sent.

 

Submission Properties

  • Enter a Submission message if you want to specify a message that students will receive once they submit a quiz.
  • E-mail submissions: Enter an email address if you want Students? submissions to be e-mailed to an external e-mail address.

 

Security Properties

  • Proctor password: Enter if you want to assign a password that students must enter in order to access the quiz.
  • IP address: Enter if you want to assign an IP address that Students' machines must match in order to access the quiz.
  • IP address mask: Enter as described in inline text on screen. For more selective mapping of IP address masks, use the numbers 1 to 254.
  • Click Save.

return to Blackboard modules index