Print Quiz

Brightspace offers instructors the ability to print quizzes, creating physical copies of quizzes or PDF versions that would otherwise only exist within a course site. This option grants instructors the flexibility to distribute or review physical or PDF versions of their quiz, along with answer keys.

Accessing Print Quiz

To get to the printing area, instructors must navigate to the Quizzes tool, then select the drop-down arrow next to the quiz they wish to print and select Print from the drop-down menu.

Print Quiz Options

The Print Quiz tool offers a preview of the quiz in document form, as well as a few different options to tailor the printed quiz to the instructor’s preferences.

Basic layout of the Print Quiz tool

Randomization

The Randomization options are only applicable if the instructor has made use of question pools or shuffling options when creating their quiz. It provides instructors with the ability to:

Generate and print multiple versions of the same quiz with different randomized questions. New versions appear as tabs along the top of the quiz previewer
Reload a quiz with a new randomization until they get a layout and set of questions they prefer.

Randomization area in Print Quiz tool with a 1 next to the Number of Versions box and a 2 next to the New Randomization option

The randomization options only apply to quizzes with built-in shuffling or question pools

Formatting

If an instructor intends to use the physical copy of the quiz for testing purposes with students, they can use the Formatting options to include information such as:

The Quiz Description, which is most likely where the instructor provided instructions when creating the quiz.
Name Field, so students have a place to write their names.
Student ID Field, if students are required to write their student IDs.
Date Field, if students are required to write the date they completed the quiz.

Formatting area of Print Quiz tool with a 1 next to Quiz Description checkbox, 2 next to Name filed checkbox, 3 next to Student ID checkbox, and 4 next to Date Field checkbox

The checkboxes allow instructors to tailor the physical quiz to their requirements

Every option selected reloads the page and updates the document previewer on the left side of the tool with the new formatting added.

Answer Key

The answer key has a single checkbox below it. Show correct answers. This turns the quiz into an answer key, which displays questions with the correct answers.

Selecting the checkbox will reload the previewer and turn the quiz into an answer key

While helpful, if a quiz makes use of question pools, the answer key option will not automatically generate all the questions in the pool and their answers. Thus, the answer key will be unfinished and missing whatever questions that do not appear in that version of the quiz. It may be worth creating multiple versions of the quiz through the Randomization option, or creating a separate quiz that just has all the questions imported into it (instead of a question pool) that can then be made into a complete answer key.

Print

At the bottom of the Print Quiz tool is a blue Print button. Selecting it will open a window where instructors can configure printer options such as what printer they are using, ink, etc.