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Create quiz questions in Respondus

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Step One: Create a new Respondus file
Step Two: Set point value
Step Three: Create Questions
Step Four: Don’t forget to save your file for uploading to multiple courses later

Step One:

  1. Open Respondus program, under Start tab
    1. Choose "Blackboard 7.x - 9.x" as the current personality
    2. Click “Create” tab
      Respondus start screen. Current personality set to Blackboard 7.x - 9.x
    3. In the pop-up window, give the name of your file, choose the type of file and click Ok
      Screenshot showing how to create a new file.

Step Two:

  1. Set Value Point for quiz question

    In Respondus, from File menu -> click Preferences
    You will get the following window. Click Edit & Publish tab -> set the Value Point and click Ok
    Screenshot showing the Preferences for a Quiz, highlighting the 2nd step.

Step Three:

  1. Create questions
    1. Open the file you just created
    2. Choose the type of question you’d like to create
    3. You can copy questions from another file
    4. Check the Randomize answers can help to prevent student sharing answers
    5. Don’t forget to save the questions
      Screen shot showing the Respondus interface and how to add quiz questions and various other functions.

Step Four:

  1. Don’t forget to save your file for uploading to other courses or modifying later
    1. File Menu -> Save
    2. Your quiz file will be saved on your local computer
    3. Next time when you open Respondus, click open tab you will be able to locate the file you saved before

Your quiz is now ready to publish

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