Purpose: This article details how to review the quiz attempt log. Quizzes in Brightspace have detailed logs that begin when a student enters the quiz. Instructors can review the quiz log for an individual attempt, or export quiz logs for the entire quiz to a CSV (Spreadsheet) file.
In this article:
Review logs for a single attempt
- Access your course in Brightspace and go to Assessments => Quizzes to see the list of quizzes.
- Find the quiz where you want to review the logs.
- Click the drop-down arrow next to the quiz title, and go to Grade.
In the quiz grading area, you can view by student or attempts. Sorting and filtering in the quiz grading area, including accessing attempts stuck "In Progress" is covered more extensively in our article Quiz Grading Area.
- Click on the attempt you wish to review.
Note: You'll see the attempt as the student took it, including the question order and answers they selected. You can manually score questions from this page. If you only want to review or grade a single student's attempt, you can stop here.
- Click on the link for "Quizzes Event Log". In a pop up window you'll see the a chronological log, starting with Quiz Entry.
- Optionally you can enable the "show IP address" option.
The quiz attempt log tracks the following information: Quiz Entry and re-entry times, Response Save time, Page Movement time, Quiz confirmation screen and completion time, auto submission for auto-submitted quizzes, and IP Address when each event occurs.
Because of how Brightspace Quizzes are designed, it is not possible to "lose" a quiz attempt when submitting. However, a student's attempt can become stuck "In progress" if the quiz availability window expires. To view these attempts, you can filter the quiz list to "Users with attempts in progress". Instructors can then enter the quiz and submit for the student.
(Above: a quiz in progress, the instructor can enter and submit if needed.)
From the quiz grading area, you can also see logs for all attempts.
Attempt Logs
The Attempts Logs button will show an activity log for all users that have taken the quiz, sorted by date. In the overview tab, you can filter by the events of: Quiz Entry, Quiz Completion, Quiz Attempt Deleted, Quiz Attempt Restored
In the Detailed tab, you'll see additional events like Response Saved, along with the IP address.
Export Event Logs
In many cases the Attempt Logs screen above can become cluttered if many users are shown. Using the Export Event Logs, takes all the attempt logs, and exports it as a .CSV (Spreadsheet) file that can be sorted in filtered in Excel. You will see the same data as the "detailed" attempt log, such as quiz responses saved, moving to new pages, along with timestamps and IP addresses.