Brightspace Frequently Asked Questions
Check out our newly updated Brightspace FAQs! This list runs through the most common questions the Brightspace Support Team gets throughout the year. If you have any questions not listed here, be sure to contact our Support team for assistance.
Support Schedule
The 91吃瓜网 Brightspace Instructional Technologists are available for support between 8 AM and 4 PM Monday through Friday. Any emails received after 4 PM will be addressed when our team returns to normal support at 8 AM the following business day. While we鈥檙e out, we encourage you to utilize our On-Demand Resources to answer any questions that arise.
There are multiple ways to add restrictions to a quiz. In our guides we will cover Visibility, Dates, Time Limits, and Password Protection.
If you need to grant special access to聽individuals,听see this guide. This would include giving select students a longer time limit, different dates, or multiple attempts.
Note: These instructions use the new Brightspace Quiz Experience introduced in Fall 2022
Updated Spring 2024
Summary of Quiz Restrictions
Get into Quiz edit mode. Do this by going to聽Activities & Assessments听-&驳迟;听Quizzes聽-> and then clicking on the dropdown icon next to your quiz. Select聽Edit.
1. Visibility:听At the bottom of the page, there is a switch you can click to toggle the quiz as聽Hidden听辞谤听Visible.听础听visible聽quiz is visible to students as a 鈥渇uture quiz鈥� but they are not able to access it until the聽Start Date. A聽hidden聽quiz is not visible to students at all.
2. Dates: In the main quiz panel, you can select a聽Due Date. This is the point at which student submissions will be marked late.
In the top-right widget, you can indicate the聽Start听补苍诲听End date聽for your quiz.聽Students must begin their quiz before the end time. Note that students can go past the end time if their time limit allows it. However if they are booted from the quiz for any reason (lose power, browser freezes) they will not be able to re-enter because the time period will have expired.
3. Release conditions: These are conditional rules that will make the quiz available. For example, 鈥淵ou must have turned in Assignments 1 & 2 for Quiz 1 to appear鈥� or 鈥淵ou must be in Section 3 to access this quiz鈥�. You can learn more about聽Release Conditions here.
4. Special Access:聽You can allow individual users聽Special Access聽if they require a longer time limit, different dates, or multiple attempts.聽These instructions can be found here.
5. Password: You can require a聽Password聽for students to use in order to take the quiz. Professors most often will display this password in the classroom when the quiz is administered to ensure that students are present.
6. IP Restriction:聽At this time, 91吃瓜网 is unable to provide IP restrictions for quizzes. Our IPs are specific to campus, but not from one classroom/building to the next.
7. Timer settings: These options are located in the second widget, titled聽Timing & Display, with the聽Set Time Limit聽box checked. Then click聽Timer Settings聽for this menu:
Quiz Start聽indicates whether students will be taking this on their own time (asynchronously) or together at a designated time (synchronously).
When the time limit expires聽offers you choices on what happens when a student reaches the end of the timer. Whichever option you choose, you will always be able to view a students time spent taking the qui
Once you have made all your selections, be sure to click聽Save.