Publishing Exam/Quiz Scores in Brightspace

When you have a create a quiz in Brightspace, by default, the quiz grades will not publish automatically and they will not show up in Grades. Adjust the quiz settings in the Assessment tab to change this so that students can see their grades.

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When you have a quiz in Brightspace, by default, the quiz grades will not publish automatically and they will not show up in Grades. However, you can select to have quiz grades sync to Grades when published, and you can select to publish quiz grades automatically or publish grades manually.

If you don't change these settings, students will not see grades* for their quizzes. 

Show published exam/quiz results in grades

Automatically publish quiz results upon completion

Manually publish quiz results

*To allow students to see answers to each question, see here.

Show Published Exam/Quiz Results in Grades

If you would like for your students to automatically see their exam/quiz results in Grades once they're published, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tab from your Navbar, or from the Course Admin menu
  2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the desired exam/quiz and select Edit
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  3. Go to the Assessment Tab
  4. Check the box for ☑︎ Synchronize to Grade Book 
    Tip: You need to add a grade item for the quiz before you can select to Synchronize it with Grade Book
    Image of the Assessment tab showing the Synchronize to Grade Book Setting Enabled
  5. Select Save and Close
  6. Either automatically or manually publish students quiz grades and those published results will show in Grades for students

Automatically Publish Exam/Quiz Results

If you would like for your students to automatically see their exam/quiz results upon completion of their attempt in both Exams/Quizzes and Grades, follow these steps:

Notes:

  • Any question that needs to be manually evaluated by the instructor (e.g., written response questions) will be scored as 0 until manually evaluated.
  • This setting only applies to quiz attempts made after you change select Automatically Publish Evaluation. If there are any existing attempts, you will need to publish those manually (see below)
  1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes tab from your Navbar, or from the Course Admin menu
  2. Select the downward facing arrow next to the desired exam/quiz
  3. Choose Edit
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  4. Go to the Assessment Tab
  5. Make sure the Automatically Publish Evaluation and Synchronize to Grade Book checkboxes are selected
  6. Hit Save and Close
    Image of the Assessment tab showing the Automatically Publish Evaluation and Synchronize to Grade Book Setting Enabled

Manually Publish Exam/Quiz Results

To manually publish results for exams/quizzes, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Exams/Quizzes Tab of the Navbar or in the Course Admin menu
  2. Find the exam/quiz you wish to publish results for and select the downward facing arrow next to it
  3. Select Grade
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  4. Choose the students you wish to publish results for
  5. Select Publish
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