Instructor: Quiz Statistics and Logs

1. Access: Statistics

D2L automatically collects and analyzes quiz data. You have easy access to all of this data.

  1. Select Quizzes from the course navbar.
  2. Click on the Statistics tab.statistics tab

     

  3. Click on the name of the Quiz you wish to view.

Note: D2L does not collect statistics on questions randomly drawn from a pool.

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2. Access: User Stats

These display the score distribution, class average, and each participant's grade on a quiz.

example of user statistics window
  1. Select Quizzes from the course navbar.
  2. Click on the Statistics tab.
  3. Click on the name of the Quiz you wish to view.
  4. Click on the Users Stats tab.users stats tab

     

Note: All participants that completed an attempt at the quiz are listed in this section. Use the Search For box if you would like to search for a specific participant.

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3. Access: Questions Stats

These display the score distribution, average score, standard deviation, discrimination index, and point biserial on a question.

example of question statistics window
  1. Select Quizzes from the course navbar.
  2. Click on the Statistics tab.
  3. Click on the name of the Quiz you wish to view.
  4. Click on the Question Stats tab.question stats tab

     

Note: To view a particular question, click on the name in the Question column.

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4. Access: Question Details

These display each question, the correct answer, the percentage of times each answer was selected, as well as the average grade, standard deviation, point biserial, and discrimination index.

example of question details window
  1. Select Quizzes from the course navbar.
  2. Click on the Statistics tab.
  3. Click on the name of the Quiz you wish to view.
  4. Click on the Question Details tab.question details tab

     

Note: Standard deviation, point biserial, and discrimination index statistics are not available at the question level when your quiz contains a Question Pool.

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5. Access: Class Attempt Logs

Track when students started a quiz, how many attempts they took per quiz, and who has deleted a student's quiz attempt. You can also track IP addresses and when answers are saved, without having to go into each individual student's log (see section 6 below).

  1. Next to the Quiz, click the down-facing triangle to open the actions menu.
  2. Select Attempt Logs.attempt log option in action menu for quiz

     

  3. Click on the tabs to see when each student entered the quiz, completed it, who deleted a quiz attempt, or who restored a deleted quiz attempt.tabs circled in a quiz attempt log

     

  4. Select Detailed to see all of this information at once, plus student IP Addresses and when each answer was saved.detail tab circled

     

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6. Access: Individual Student's Log

D2L keeps a log of every student's activity in a quiz. Whenever a student enters a quiz, saves an answer, changes pages, and so forth, an entry is made into that student's individual Quiz Log.

  1. Click the Quizzes tab in the course navbar.
  2. Click the caret to open the quiz's Action menu.down-facing triangle

     

  3. Select Grade.actions menu
  4. Click the Attempt # beneath a student's name to open their quiz attempt.attempt number
     
  5. Click on the Quizzes Event Log.quizzes event log link
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