WebCT Quizzes/Surveys

Clicking on the Quiz icon will take you to the quiz and survey homepage. All the quizzes and surveys for the course are listed. If the instructor has not included a quiz, it will not appear. Quizzes are graded and will be directly tied to your name. Surveys, however, are anonymous. The instructor knows who has completed a survey, but cannot match a student to their answers.

The Quizzes/Surveys tool can be used:

• To provides a method for traditional objective and subjective testing and surveys.

• To provide several question types including multiple-choice, short-answer, calculated, matching, and paragraph styles.

• To prepare students for classroom activities and discussion with practice questions.

• To gather information about how students feel they are doing in the class with anonymous surveys.
  

• To give prompt feedback to students by providing comments regarding quiz items.

Quiz Function Descriptions

Title: Click on the title to access the quiz. If the quiz is not available or has already been attempted the maximum number of times, the title will not be hyper-linked.

Availability: This shows the time period in which the quiz may be accessed.

Grade: This field is blank until the quiz has been marked and the instructor has released the grades.

Attempts: This shows the number of times the quiz has been attempted along with the maximum number of tries allowed. Moreover, once you have attempted a quiz, the word "Completed" becomes a link. Click the Completed link to view a table that lists your score that is recorded in the gradebook, the maximum score for the quiz, and for each attempt, the score, and the time it took for you to take the quiz.

• After clicking on the underlined name of the quiz, an orientation of how to take the quiz appears. Click on the begin quiz button to start taking the quiz.

Tip: The time displayed on the quiz page does not automatically refresh. This means that the time on the page may not reflect the actual quiz time remaining. The quiz time only refreshes after an action like saving an answer.

• If the quiz has a time limit, a dialog box appears warning you of the time limit. Click the "OK" button to proceed.

• For each question, answer the question and click the "Save Answer" button:

• Notice the box in the top right corner of the quiz. WebCT keeps a record of the answered questions:

  

Tip: Want to change an answer that you have already saved? You may change your answers by selecting the correct response and clicking on the "save answer" button. Your new answer will now be saved.

• After all question are answered, click the "Finish" button (at the top or bottom of the page). Click the "OK" button to submit the quiz for grading.

• Click the "View Results" button to see your answers and invoke the auto grade function. Essay questions are not automatically graded. You will have to wait until your instructor grades the questions to see you entire quiz result.

Tip: It is important that you "View Results" after submitting your quiz and wait until the page renders completely. This will ensure that your score is accurately recorded within WebCT.

Quiz Troubleshooting:

• Once you begin your quiz do not resize your window as text may be lost. If you must resize your quiz window (make bigger) do so before you begin the quiz.

• If when taking a quiz the questions window suddenly disappears (pc users), your window has either been minimized (check the status bar at the bottom of the screen) or may be behind your current window out of sight (check behind current window for the smaller quiz window).