eLC Exam Prep

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Last updated: Sept 11, 2020
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ELC Exam Prep
Create Your Quiz:
Go into the Quizzes Tool in eLC and click New Quiz.

Properties Tab:
Name your quiz appropriately; if you have Quiz Categories, you can create or add this quiz to the appropriate category.

Getting Quiz Questions into eLC
There are two main ways to get quiz questions into eLC:

  • Enter questions directly into the quiz feature

  • Upload a document from a document you have created or from a publisher's test bank.

TIP: Uploading a document is the best practice. If you enter questions directly into eLC, those questions do not exist anywhere else; it also makes it harder to search for a question if you need to make a change.
Respondus provides an easy formatting option to upload a Word document. You can format your Word Document appropriately and send that document to Terry OIT to let us help you upload the file into your quiz. We will assist in uploading your questions correctly. Click here to get information about how to format your Word Document.

Once you add quiz questions, you will see a couple of additional features. These are actually very important features.

Questions per page: This allows you to decide how many questions there are per page of the quiz. If you have 50 questions and put one per page, the student must click through 50 pages of the quiz. If you have them all on one page, the student can scroll and see all of the questions at one time.

Paging: Prevent Moving backwards through pages. Students hate this option, but this is a good option to use sometimes. On the Restrictions Tab, you will decide how you want to quiz to behave. If you want to enforce a time limit, students can STILL SEE WHATEVER is on that page when their time expires. So for example, if you have all of your questions on one page, when the time limit expires, your students can still see all of the questions for the exam. Depending on your settings, they may not be able to ANSWER any more, but they can still see them.

TIP: Students hate one question per page without the ability to go back. They like to move through and answer easy questions first and go back to hard ones. So it’s best to let them know upfront (in the introduction to the quiz perhaps) that they cannot go back. If you set this setting, there is also a pop up each time they move forward telling them they can’t go back.


You can add a description or introduction if you like. This appears before students take this test. This is a good place to describe your expectations for taking the quiz/exam. You can also add a header and footer to the quiz if you like. The Optional Advance Properties allow you further control of how your exam operates.

  • Hints: You have to actually set up the hints if you want to use hints. This is not a common feature.

  • Disable right click: This disables the ability to print screen from the right click. If you use Respondus Lock Down Browser, this feature will be automatically disabled.

  • Disable Email, IM, etc...: This is also disabled if you use Respondus Lock Down Browser.

Click Save and go on to the next tab at the top.

Restrictions Tab:
This tab sets important features related to Quiz availability. If students tell you they can't see or access a quiz, this is likely the place to fix that issue.
You can Hide the quiz from students. This is a best practice while you are working on a quiz. Students will not see that it exists.
The Due Date is when the quiz is DUE to be completed.
Availability is how long a quiz is available to students.

TIP: You can work yourself into a pickle with Due Dates and Availability. For instance, if the test is due at 10pm, but also available until 10pm, students could start the quiz at 9:59pm and think that they have time to finish. Unless you plan to enforce manual penalties, you could leave off the Due Date. That way students just see it’s available for a certain time frame and once they start, they have however many minutes to complete it.

If you use the Calendar feature, you may be able to check the box to add it to the course calendar.


TIP: Release Conditions can get complicated. This is how you can release this quiz based on certain conditions. For example, you can release this quiz based on whether students are in a certain group that you have created, or if they have completed a certain assignment first, or if they have clicked on a certain content item. You are welcome to use these as you see fit; however, you can work yourself into a pickle. If you think you want to use these and have a question, call Terry OIT for assistance and we can talk you through the plan.

Security Options: You can enable Respondus LockDown Browser and/or Monitor for additional security for the quiz if you like.
The best place to control and edit the Respondus LockDown options are not inside of an individual quiz, but in the Respondus LockDown Dashboard on the main Quiz level. If you have questions about this, please refer to additional documentation or contact Terry OIT.
Optional Advance Restrictions: This can allow you to restrict this quiz to taking it on a certain computer with a certain IP address. This is not a common feature.
Timing: It's very important to understand the ramification of your selections in this area.
Recommended Time Limit: The time limit is NOT enforced at all.
Enforced Time Limit: These options control how the quiz functions for the student.
When you set a timelimit with a grace period, those two added together are how much time the student can work on the exam. 90 minutes, with a 5 minute grace period gives 95 minutes. You MUST have a grace period of at least one minute. Therefore, if you don't want to give a student 91 minutes, give them 89 minutes with 1 grace period minute.
Then you can decide how the quiz will act once the time is up.

  • Allow the student to continue working: This basically tells you the student worked over the time limit, but does not penalize them at all. This is a good option if you want to just deduct a certain number of points for taking too much time.

  • Prevent the student from making further changes: Keeps the student from answering anymore questions. The only option will be to submit the exam. Remember, they can still SEE the exam. So however many questions you allow on that page is what they can still see.

  • Allow the student to continue working: This will grade the WHOLE TEST as a zero.

TIP: Students can still fail to submit the attempt and just leave it open. You can submit it for them when you grade it if they have failed to submit. So it can look like students exceed the time limit and the grace period, but if you have chosen to prevent them from making changes, they should not be able to make any more changes after the time limit is up. They just may delay in submitting the actual quiz.


Special Access: This is how you allow certain students access to the quiz at a different time, allow longer time periods (ADA), or do not enforce time limits for certain students. Basically, if a student needs any customization, you do it here. You can even hide the quiz completely from everyone except for the students who have special access. Find out more about this setting here.

Assessment Tab:
This tab allows you to set up grading.
Automatic Grade: This a good option to choose if you have a multiple choice test. This keeps you from manually having to click to grade them all later. This ALLOWS the POSSIBILITY for students to see their grades immediately after the exam. You control when and how they see grades with the Submission Views tab.
Grade Item: This is the connection to the gradebook. You can connect to an existing grade item or create one from here.
Auto Export to Grades: This allows automatic export to the gradebook. Consider if you think this is a good option for you. If you choose to automatically export the grades, you will need to make sure the grade item is hidden in the gradebook if you hide grades from students for a certain time after the test.
Clarification: Students can potentially see grades in TWO places—here in the quiz depending on the submission view you create, and in the gradebook. You can manage the visibility of both in those two areas.

Student View Preview: This shows how/what the student sees of their grade. You can edit the display settings to decide what exactly they see. If you weight grades (I.e. add points), then you may want to show the points grade and weighted grade or just the weighted grade.


Attempts: Decide how many times the students can take the quiz. Exams may only need one attempt. If you are using quizzes as study tools (maybe with a large question bank), you can allow multiple or unlimited attempts, and then you can use the Overall Grade Calculation feature to choose which grade you want to record (i.e., highest, average of all attempts, first or last attempt).

There are more conditions that exist if you have multiple attempts. For instance, you can allow a minimum or maximum score in order to secure another attempt.
Objectives Tab:
If you use the Learning Objectives Tool, you can link you exam to certain learning objectives.
Submission Views:
In eLC, click on your quiz to edit it. Then click on Submission Views across the edit quiz navigation:

Your default view may in fact show scores. You can edit your default one, add an additional one, or just edit the one for this quiz.

For example, this view, shows scores immediately after the test, shows No Quiz Questions, and does not show any stats for the course.

In the text box, it's a great practice to explain to students the plan (i.e. You will not see your questions or scores until everyone has completed the test. Thanks for your patience!)
View Details—this gives you lots of options on what info you want them to see. If you choose No, the students will not see any questions after the quiz until you change this setting or enable a new submission view.

If you don't want them to see their score or any information, make sure you do not have any of these options checked.

Now, one other tricky thing is the gradebook. You may have this TEST submission view locked down, but when the grade posts to the gradebook, they may be able to see their grades from there. So make sure you have that column hidden in the gradebook until you are ready to release.
When you want to show them the quiz, you can again, edit this view to show what you want, or toggle between views if you create a new one (one for the initial release and one for after so you don't have to change settings, just submission views).
The video on this is actually pretty helpful here: {+}https://documentation.brightspace.com/EN/le/quizzes/instructor/customize_submission_view.htm+
Reports Setup:
This is a helpful tab if you want to see exam or question metrics. If you have questions about this feature, contact Terry OIT for consultation.
Completing your Quiz:
When you go back to the Quiz Tool, you will see your quiz. Double check to make sure it's hidden (the eye symbol), that it's connected to the gradebook (the little ribbon badge). Double check your due date and the availability.