{"id":25053,"date":"2022-03-22T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/?page_id=25053"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:42:15","slug":"respondus-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/respondus-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Respondus: Additional Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class='content-column one_third'><div id=\"bellows-main-respondus\" class=\"bellows bellows-nojs bellows-main bellows-source-menu bellows-align-left bellows-skin-vanilla bellows-type- bellows-expand-current\"><ul id=\"menu-respondus\" class=\"bellows-nav\" data-bellows-config=\"main\"><li id=\"menu-item-15555\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-home bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-15555 bellows-item-level-0\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Home<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-14695\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-14695 bellows-item-level-1\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/other-edtech\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Other Technology Tools<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n\t<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14687\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-has-children bellows-menu-item-14687 bellows-item-level-2\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/respondus\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Respondus Quiz Builder<\/span><button class=\"bellows-subtoggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Submenu\"><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-expand fa fa-chevron-down\"><\/i><i class=\"bellows-subtoggle-icon-collapse fa fa-chevron-up\"><\/i><\/button><\/a>\n\t\t<ul class=\"bellows-submenu\">\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14693\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14693 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/access-the-respondus-4-0-install-files\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Installing Respondus<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-25035\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-25035 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/importing-questions-into-respondus\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Importing Questions into Respondus<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-14699\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-14699 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/respondus\/uploading-quiz-questions-to-brightspace-using-respondus\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Publishing Quiz to Brightspace<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li id=\"menu-item-25059\" class=\"bellows-menu-item bellows-menu-item-type-post_type bellows-menu-item-object-page bellows-menu-item-25059 bellows-item-level-3\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/respondus-tips\/\" class=\"bellows-target\"><span class=\"bellows-target-title bellows-target-text\">Additional Tips<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><div class='content-column two_third last_column'><h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Respondus: Additional Tips<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Randomize answers in multiple choice questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When creating multiple-choice questions in the Brightspace quiz tool, you can select the option to randomize the order of answers for each student. This option has to be selected for each individual multiple-choice question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The option to randomize answers in multiple-choice questions is also available in Respondus. You can set it for each question individually, or you can set it for all multiple-choice questions in the quiz in one step. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d9f0fe\"><strong>NOTE: <\/strong>You need to adjust the randomization setting in Respondus <strong><em>before <\/em><\/strong>you import the questions from your text file into Respondus. Changing this setting after import will not apply random order to the answers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To randomize answers in multiple-choice questions in Respondus, do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Go to file <strong>File<\/strong> and select <strong>Preferences<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Click the <strong>Edit &amp; Publish<\/strong> tab.<\/li><li>Select <strong>Yes <\/strong>next to <em>Randomize answers in Multiple Choice\/Response<\/em>. <\/li><li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2020\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2020\/04\/image-3.png 558w, https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/files\/2020\/04\/image-3-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><figcaption><strong>REMINDER: Set this BEFORE import into Respondus. Unset after questions are imported.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Messy imports from Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes in a Word document, some multiple-choice questions get mish-mashed together. One &#8216;trick&#8217; that usually helps fix the issue is to select all the text in the Word document, then select a uniform font type and size. In our experience, that fixes issues with most questions; however, some problems may still persist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A more advanced way that has worked for us is to turn on hidden characters and pull up the Style editor in Word. There are usually soft paragraph breaks, or fake lists, or some sort of hidden styles applied to the problem area. You can select all the text and apply \u201cnormal\u201d which corrects most issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can (e.g., if there is not a lot of formatting required such as bold, italics, super\/sub-scripts, tables, images, etc.), paste the question into Notepad or WordPad to get rid of all hidden styles which may be tripping Respondus up.<\/p><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25053","page","type-page","status-publish"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25053"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25227,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25053\/revisions\/25227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citl.mun.ca\/technologyresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}