{"id":18351,"date":"2022-05-30T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=18351"},"modified":"2023-03-04T02:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T08:48:51","slug":"brightspace-tip-324-test-quiz-question-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-324-test-quiz-question-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Tip #324: Test\/Quiz Question Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your students to take a quiz or test online? Do you have a test that you normally administer on paper and you don\u2019t want to retype all the questions into Brightspace? Learning and Teaching Services at Algonquin College developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.algonquincollege.com\/BrightspaceQuizGenerator\/\">Test\/Quiz Question Generator<\/a> that provides an easy way of creating a collection of questions that can be imported into Brightspace.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/board-school-university-to-learn-361516\/\" title=\"test\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2014\/06\/03\/19\/38\/board-361516_960_720.jpg?resize=523%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the word test written in chalk on a chalkboard\" height=\"396\" width=\"523\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Quiz questions have to be in a special format in order to be imported into Brightspace. The <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.algonquincollege.com\/BrightspaceQuizGenerator\/\">Test\/Quiz Question Generator<\/a> allows you to reformat your questions and it will create a CSV file that can be imported into Brightspace. Refer to this <a href=\"https:\/\/plato.algonquincollege.com\/BrightspaceQuizGenerator\/assets\/files\/QuestionTypes.pdf\">question types and formatting guide<\/a> for information on how to format your questions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Brightspace Community developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Quiz-Question-Converter\">Quiz Question Converter<\/a> that you can use to add a bank of questions to the Quiz Question Library. <strong>One benefit of using the Quiz Question Converter is that you can add feedback and hints to the quiz questions you are importing into Brightspace<\/strong>. Therefore saving you time in importing quiz questions with feedback and hints into Brightspace.<\/p>\n<p>ICYMI, follow these links to watch a recording of our <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NZFrpjbiw4E\">Back to Basics: Tests and Quizzes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L4u5HdqnIlM\">Beyond the Basics: Complex Tests in Brightspace<\/a> training sessions.<\/p>\n<h2>Want more information?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plato.algonquincollege.com\/BrightspaceQuizGenerator\/\">Test\/Quiz Question Generator<\/a> (Algonquin College)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plato.algonquincollege.com\/BrightspaceQuizGenerator\/assets\/files\/QuestionTypes.pdf\">Question types and formatting guide<\/a> (for the Test\/Quiz Question Generator)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Quiz-Question-Converter\">Quiz Question Converter<\/a> (Brightspace Community)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/#assessinglearners\">Quizzes, Surveys, and Question Libraries<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-325-quizzes-question-types-and-when-to-use-them\/\">Question Types and When to Use Them<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-308-use-submission-views-to-show-quiz-results\/\">Use Submission Views to Show Quiz Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View all the <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?s=Brightspace+%2Brecap\">Brightspace training recaps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/Brightspace:_Instructors_Quick_Start_Tutorial\">Instructors Quick Start Tutorial<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/All-Release-Notes\">Continuous Delivery release notes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catwiki.xula.edu\/index.php\/Brightspace_Known_Issues\">Brightspace Known Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-2-sandbox-courses\/\">Request a sandbox course<\/a><br \/>\nSign-up for <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/events\/\">Brightspace training sessions<\/a><br \/>\nYou can find <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.brightspace.com\/EN\/-\/-\/-\/welcome_page.htm\">Brightspace help<\/a> at D2L's website.<br \/>\nJoin the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/\">Brightspace Community<\/a>.<br \/>\nTry these <a title=\"Brightspace How-to\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-documents\/\">Brightspace How-To documents<\/a>.<br \/>\nVisit our <a title=\"Brightspace FAQs\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-faq\/\">Brightspace FAQs<\/a> for additional Brightspace information<br \/>\nor <a title=\"Schedule 1-on-1\" href=\"http:\/\/jflorent.youcanbook.me\/\">schedule a one-on-one session<\/a>, <a title=\"Send email\" href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/mail\/?to=31\">email<\/a>, or <br \/>call Janice Florent: (504) 520-7418.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: Are you doing something innovative in Brightspace or perhaps you've discovered a handy tip? Share how you are using Brightspace in your teaching and learning in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-189-educator-share-showcase\/\">The Orange Room<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>Image credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/board-school-university-to-learn-361516\/\">image<\/a> by geralt from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your students to take a quiz or test online? Do you have a test that you normally administer on paper and you don\u2019t want to retype all the questions into Brightspace? Learning and Teaching Services at Algonquin College developed a Test\/Quiz Question Generator that provides an easy way of creating a collection <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-324-test-quiz-question-generator\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Brightspace Tip #324: Test\/Quiz Question Generator\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[403],"tags":[27,402,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-18351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brightspace","7":"tag-assessment","8":"tag-brightspace","9":"tag-quiz","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-4LZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15185,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/brightspace-tip-146-test-quiz-question-generator\/","url_meta":{"origin":18351,"position":0},"title":"Brightspace Tip #146: Test\/Quiz Question Generator","author":"Janice Florent","date":"March 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you want your students to take a quiz or test online? 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