New Quiz Accessibility

Introduction

Do you enlarge the text on your Reader? Do you enable captions when watching the evening news or Netflix? Do sometimes take the elevator instead of stairs when traveling between floors of a building? These are examples of accessibility features. Accessibility refers to the design of products and environments for people with disabilities. While designing for accessibility is essential for some, it is useful for all. Everyone benefits when we create accessible learning spaces. A deep dive into web accessibility is beyond the scope of this training module, but there are moves you can make today when building course content that will improve the learning experience for everyone.

Best practices

The background image below shows formatting options when working on New Quizzes. Click on the hot spots to learn about various best practices when creating digital content.

Math Equations - this is a tricky one!

The equation editor in New Quizzes is called Mathquill. Look on the far right end of the editor for the f_xbutton.

Math equations DO transfer over to New Quizzes during migration. However, the editing view changes and some transfer over as uneditable images.
If you use LaTeX editor for questions, it is recommended that you migrate a few individual quizzes (sooner than later) to see how your content transfers. This will give you an idea of what to expect when you eventually do a bulk migration. Experiment now, so you are not surprised or disappointed later!
You can copy LaTeX code from Classic Quizzes and paste into New Quizzes.
This blog post suggests that the key to getting LaTeX to work with New Quizzes is "to type it directly into the edit window using the delimiters “\(” and “\)“. You can add \displaystyle inside the delimiters if you want fancy inline formatting, or use $$ delimiters if you want your expression centered on its own line."

Moderating New Quizzes

New Quizzes provides some moderation options not available in Classic Quizzes.

Look for Moderate along the top menu bar next to Reports.
Look for the Moderate button next to each student on the far right side of the screen.

Screen shot of where to choose Moderate with an arrow pointing to the Moderate button next to each student

Once you click on Moderate you will see several options:

Add additional attempts by choosing the arrow up button.
Allow additional time or remove a time limit under where it says Time adjustments.

Screen shot of when some click Moderate button next to a student name

Click Mark as Done, then click Next to move on to Accessibility Quiz