Quiz Statistics & Logs

Access User, Question, and Question Details Stats

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

Note

Quiz statistics are not computed for questions in a Question Pool.

Step 1                     

Select Quizzes from the course navbar.

Step 2                     

Click on the Statistics tab.

Statistics button

Step 3                     

Click on the name of the quiz you wish to view.

Step 4                     

Click on one of the tabs:

User, Question, Question Details Stats tabs

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

Note 

All participants who 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.

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

Note 

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

  • Question Details: These display each question, the correct answer, the percentage of times each answer was selected, and the average grade, standard deviation, point biserial, and discrimination index.

Note 

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

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).

Step 1  

Next to the Quiz, click the Actions Menu icon and select Attempt Logs.

Attempt Logs button

Step 2 

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

Quiz Statistics tabs

Step 3

Select Detailed to see all this information simultaneously, plus student IP Addresses and when each answer was saved.

Detailed stats tab

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.

Step 1                               

Click the Quizzes tab in the course navbar. 

Step 2                               

Click the quiz's Action menu icon and select Grade.

Grade button

Step 3                   

Click the Attempt # beneath a student's name to open their quiz attempt.

Attempt 1 button

Step 4          

Click on the Quizzes Event Log.

Quizzes Event Log button

Back to Top

Did you find this page helpful? Thank you very much for the feedback! There was a problem submitting your feedback. Please try again later.