Add special access to an Assignment folder

Special access permissions allow you to set different availability dates and times for specific students. For example, you could extend the deadline for users who require remedial help or who are submitting work beyond the original scope of the assignment. You can also add special access after an assignment’s end date has passed for users who have a legitimate excuse […]

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Restricting Quizzes to Specific Users or Special Access for Students

There are times when a student(s) may need additional time to write a quiz, or needs to write outside the regular quiz times. There may also be times when you want to release the same quiz to different groups or sections in your course. Note: Once you’ve created special access for a student(s), they no […]

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Creating an Assignment Folder

Creating a folder Availability Dates & Conditions Under Availability Dates & Conditions, you can choose to apply the following optional settings. Note: If you don’t use any of the following settings, your Assignment folder will be set to be always available, always visible, and will not be marked late after a specific date. See Dates […]

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Adding time to a Quiz in progress

Note: This method only works if the quiz has not already been submitted. If you need to add time to a quiz in progress, you must use Special Access and tell the students to refresh their browsers for the new time settings to take effect. You cannot use the main Start/End settings to edit a […]

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Setting up Quiz Accommodations

Setup Note: In previous versions of Brightspace, Special Access was commonly used to set up accommodations. We no longer recommend the use of Special Access for most accessibility accommodations. If you have a student with an accessibility accommodation or another reason to routinely grant extra time for writing a Quiz, you can set this once […]

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Manage Quizzes Tab

From the main Manage Quizzes page, at a glance you can see categories of quizzes, their availability, and important settings or associations (e.g. special access granted, grade item association, and password protection).   In Manage Quizzes you can also:   Bulk Edit (Includes Categories)  Renaming, categorizing, hiding/revealing, and changing the number of attempts can be done via […]

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Create a New Quiz

To create a new Quiz, go to Assessments > Quizzes and click on New Quiz. Initial Settings Name Enter a descriptive name for your Quiz. Example: “Week 1 Quiz: Naming a Quiz”. Grade Out Of As you add questions with point values, the total number of points will keep updating here automatically. Link to Grade […]

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New Quiz Experience

The New Quiz Experience is here. See what’s changed in the new interface. The redesigned create and edit screen in Quizzing has the same layout as Assignments, making it familiar and easy to learn. The primary panel on the left contains common, frequently used fields that are always displayed. These fields are most relevant to […]

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Retake Quiz with Incorrect Questions Only

Retake Incorrect Questions Only (RIO) is a quiz configuration option available to Instructors when creating Quizzes with more than one attempt. The Retake Incorrect Questions Only option allows students to only retake their incorrectly answered questions from previous quiz attempts. When the student re-attempts their quiz, the quiz questions answered incorrectly on previous attempts are […]

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Work To Do Widget

The Work To Do widget displays all the overdue and upcoming learning activities across courses or within a course. Sometimes students have a hard time keeping track of what they need to get done. They may need to hop in and out of several courses to determine if there are upcoming assignments or projects with […]

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