Creating Quiz Reports: Item Analysis

Introduction:

This step-by-step guide helps instructors create and run reports to evaluate question effectiveness, identify trends, and improve assessments. Follow these simple steps to analyze quiz data and enhance student learning outcomes.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Creating Reports

1. 1. Go to the Activities and select Quizzes.
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3. 2. From the list of quizzes select the pull-down menu to the right of the quiz you want to create a report for and select Setup Reports.
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5. 3. Click on the Add Report button.
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7. 4. Make the choices for all statistics you would like to have in your report.
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9. 5. Make sure to choose the Instructor role for who the report will be released to so you can view the report once it is run.
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11. 6. Click Save

Run Item Analysis

1. 1. Go to Activities and select Quizzes. From the list of quizzes select the pull-down menu to the right of the quiz you want to run a report for and select View Reports.
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3. 2. Choose the Report you created from the list of reports you created.
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5. 3. Once you are in the View Report screen (see below) you can choose to set specific dates to run this analysis on and then either select the Generate CSV Report button to conduct analysis (i.e. export this to Excel, SPSS, SAS), Generate Excel, or simply select the Generate HTML Report button.
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7. 4. A notification will be sent into your Brightspace Bell Icon
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9. 5. After selecting the notification, you will be directed to the page where you will be able to download and view the report.
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11. 6. Select Done to return

Additional Resources:

• • Assessment Quality Dashboard - The Quiz Item Analysis area | D2L Brightspace Community