Quizzes: Best Practices
Before the Quiz
- Be sure you are in a space that you can comfortably take the test in the time allowed.
- Use Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
During the Quiz
- After you start a quiz, the timer will continue even if you exit the quiz.
- Save your response after each question. (An icon for the question number should change to blue to indicate you saved successfully.)
- On quizzes with multiple pages, switching pages will save all selected answers just like hitting the save all button.
- After every finished page, save all responses on the page.
- If you are writing an essay or a long response, write it in a word processor like MS Word, Google Docs, Notepad, etc. then copy and paste into the quiz and save the response.
- If your answers are not saving, it’s likely that you have been timed out of D2L. You will want to re-access the quiz again and ensure that answers are saving before you continue.
Assignments: Best Practices
If you have problems uploading an assignment, try these steps.
- Your file may not upload or work correctly if it was made in OpenOffice or Pages, due to the file format.
- Make sure the name of the file does not contain any special characters.
WRONG: Myfile!rox@stuff16-this is my lastname_$45/omg.lol.pdf
- This name is too long
- Has special characters
- Has spaces
RIGHT: filename-lastname.pdf
- Brief file name and your last name are best
- Short and no special characters
Discussion and Email: Best Practices
If the system times out while creating a discussion forum post, or a long answer for a quiz, you could lose all that you typed and will have to start over.
- For any post longer than a few sentences, use a word processor like Notepad (Windows), TextEdit (Mac), MS Word (Windows & Mac) or Google Docs to write the post.
- This will give you more control over formatting, allow you to save often, as well as spell check the document.
- You can then copy and paste the contents of your document into the D2L discussion, email, or quiz.