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Brightspace Updates: Quizzes
Each month Brightspace release a list of updates and upcoming changes. This article summarizes updates related to instructors using assignments in their courses.
Brightspace updates referenced will be released in the upcoming month.
September 2025
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Instructors Can Now Hide the Point Value for Quiz Questions
- When creating/editing a quiz, you will now have the ability to hide question point value under the settings, Timing & Display.
- Point values for all questions within the quiz will now be hidden.
October 2025
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Attempt exports retain breaks in question content
- Instructors can now export quiz attempts using the Export to CSV and Export to Excel options without removing line breaks in question text or answers.
- Previously, line breaks in question text and answers were removed during export.
Hide Quiz Question Points
- Instructors can now hide the point value for quiz questions to ensure learners focus on all questions equally, without the risk of inferring the number of correct answers based on point value. This feature is particularly useful in scenarios like employee training and association quizzes.
- The new feature helps with the following:
- Avoiding Hints in Multi-Select and Written Response Questions. Hiding point values prevents learners from guessing the number of expected answers based on the score, promoting a more consistent effort across all question types.
- Diagnostic Assessments. This option is beneficial for assessments like subject knowledge audits or start-of-term baseline knowledge checks, where the purpose is to gauge understanding rather than focus on scoring.
- Encouraging Equal Effort Across Questions. By hiding point values, learners are less likely to prioritize certain questions over others based on points. Hiding point values ensures a balanced effort and enables the inclusion of control or bonus questions without indicating their significance.
- A new option is available within the Timing & Display section when creating or editing a quiz.
- This feature implements the following PIE items:
- D2934 (Hide point value of quiz questions)
- D10418 (Option to hide point value of quiz questions and show linked Learning Outcomes)
- Previously, point values for quiz questions were always visible to learners.
Improved visibility for insufficient question pools
- With this release, instructors can now see a status indicator when a question pool has insufficient questions, allowing them to resolve the issue before learners begin a quiz attempt.
- If a quiz attempts to draw more questions than are available in a question pool (for example, 12 questions requested but only 10 available), the interface now displays a warning indicator.
- This update adds visual warnings in the following areas:
- The Grading view: If learners have already completed a quiz containing an affected pool, messaging displays in the grading evaluation experience.
- The Manage Quizzes page: A status indicator flags quizzes with insufficient question pools.
- The Edit Quiz page (Quiz Builder): A warning icon appears directly on the affected question pool.
- The Course Import and Course Copy workflows: Validation now prevents importing or copying pools with an insufficient number of questions.
- Previously, no visual indicators identified when question pools contained too few questions, and these could be imported or copied without warning.
Figure: When grading a quiz, an error message appears indicating the question pool is exhausted.
Figure: In the Manage Quizzes tab, a red warning icon appears beside a quiz name. Instructors can review quiz settings to resolve the issue.
Figure: The Edit Quiz page displays a Question Pool with an error state, labeled Invalid Question Pool.