Quizzes and Surveys

What do you want to do?

• take a quiz or survey
• take a quiz or survey containing an equation
• download Equation Editor and Viewer
• view individual quiz results
• view all your quiz results
• view quiz statistics

Taking a quiz or survey | Top

Note: If you are taking a quiz that contains equations, WebCT recommends you download the WebEQ Equation Editor and Viewer to your local machine prior to taking the quiz. Download the Editor and Viewer from WebCT's download area: http://www.webct.com/equation.

1. To take a quiz or a survey, click the Quiz tool hyperlink on your Homepage, Organizer page, or Navigation Bar. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
• Title: the title of the quiz or survey. Note: if a quiz is not available, or has already been taken the maximum number of times, the title will not be hyperlinked.
• Availability: the time period in which the quiz may be accessed.
• Duration: you have this amount of time to complete the quiz or survey. If there is no information displayed in this column, then you have unlimited time.
• Grade: the grade you received for the quiz or survey. For example, 90/100 indicates that you received 90 out of 100 points.
• Attempts: This column displays the number of times you have attempted the quiz or survey, and the number of attempts remaining. Once an attempt has been marked and its grade released, the hyperlinked Completed appears.
2. Under Title, click the hyperlinked name of the quiz or survey that you want to take. The Quiz (or Survey) Introduction screen appears.
3. Follow the instructions in the Introduction.

• If you are viewing a paragraph question with an Equation id and title reference in a text box, for example, "Equation:id=1, title=equn_1", your instructor has provided a prompt for your answer in the form of an equation. To see the prompt:
  1. From the Equation list box, select the equation id number matching the equation id in the text box above (eg. select "id=1").
     
  2. Click Equation editor. The Equation Editor screen appears, displaying the prompt in an editing area (see About Equation Editor and Viewer for an overview of this tool). Note: The Equation Editor screens display differently for Macintosh users. For more information, see overview of tool for Macintosh.
     • To answer the question in the editing area, use the icons in the toolbar together with keyboard numeric elements. Click the ? icon to view Help specific to creating an equation. Important: Do not enter spaces between elements in your equation, as spaces appear as boxes when displayed in the Viewer.
       • Click Insert to save your answer and return to the previous screen. You will see a reference to the edited equation, as well as a reference to the original equation. Remove the original equation if desired, and erase any other portion of the prompt that you do not want to submit as a part of your answer.
     • To answer the question without using Equation Editor toolbar icons, click Cancel to return to the previous screen.
       • Erase the equation and any text not a part of your answer from the text box, then enter your answer.

4. Once you complete a quiz or survey, click Finish to submit it.

Downloading Equation Editor and Viewer| Top

If you are taking a quiz that contains equations, WebCT recommends you download the WebEQ Equation Editor and Viewer to your local machine prior to taking the quiz. This will greatly speed up the delivery of the quiz.

• Download WebEQ Editor and Viewer from WebCT's download area: http://www.webct.com/equation.

Viewing individual quiz results | Top

1. To view the results of your quiz attempt, click the Quiz tool hyperlink on your Homepage, Organizer page, or Navigation Bar. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
2. Under Attempts, click the Completed hyperlink for the quiz that you want to view. The Scores screen appears. Note: to return to the Quizzes and Surveys screen, under Scores, click the Quiz hyperlink.
3. Under Number, click the hyperlink of the quiz attempt for which you want to see the results. The results screen appears. Note: the information that is available to you depends upon how your instructor has set up the quiz results. For example, your instructor may choose to show you the correct answer as well as your own answer.
4. To return to the Scores screen, click the Scores hyperlink.

Viewing all your quiz results | Top

1. To view the results of all of your quiz attempts, click the Quiz tool hyperlink on your Homepage, Organizer page, or Navigation Bar. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
2. Under Quizzes and Surveys, select View scores for all my quizzes, and click Go. The Scores screen appears. Note: if you want to view an individual quiz attempt, under Number, click the hyperlinked attempt number. The results screen appears.

Viewing quiz statistics | Top

• view summary statistics for yourself and the class
• view statistics on all questions in a quiz for yourself and the class

View summary quiz statistics for yourself and the class | Top

1. To view summary quiz statistics for yourself and the class, click the Quiz tool hyperlink on your Homepage, Organizer page, or Navigation Bar. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
2. Under Quizzes and Surveys, select View class statistics for quizzes, and click Go. The Statistics screen appears. Note: to return to the Quizzes and Surveys screen, under Statistics, click the Quiz hyperlink. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
3. Under Title, select the check box of the quiz for which you want to see the summary statistics.
4. Under Statistics, select View individual and class summary statistics for a quiz, and click Go. The Performance Summary screen appears. Note: to return to the Statistics screen, under Performance Summary, click the Statistics hyperlink. The Statistics screen appears.

View statistics on all questions in a quiz for yourself and the class | Top

1. To view question statistics for yourself and the class, click the Quiz tool hyperlink on your Homepage, Organizer page, or Navigation Bar. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
2. Under Quizzes and Surveys, select View class statistics for quizzes, and click Go. The Statistics screen appears. Note: to return to the Quizzes and Surveys screen, under Statistics, click the Quiz hyperlink. The Quizzes and Surveys screen appears.
3. Under Title, select the check box of the quiz for which you want to see the question statistics.
4. Under Statistics, select View individual and class statistics for all questions in a quiz, and click Go. The Item Statistics screen appears. Note: to return to the Statistics screen, under Item Statistics, click the Statistics hyperlink. The Statistics screen appears.

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