Get your students comfortable with MBC and ready to tackle the course assignments with a Student Orientation practice quiz. This can be set as ungraded (0 pts) or graded.

Create a Student Orientation Quiz

1. From the Instructor Dashboard, click Go to Course.
2. From the Course Home Page, click Course Content to expand your Course Navigation Menu.
   • Click on the Chapter/(Module) in which you want to build the Student Orientation assignment.
3. Click Add an assignment or resource.
4. Select Auto Graded Assignment.

Settings Tab

1. Name the assignment.
   • Assignment name becomes the column header in the Gradebook (if graded).
2. Select a Template.
    
3. Click Continue to timing.

Timing Tab

1. Set Submission Options
   STRONGLY recommended to keep the default setting of Open attempts are submitted automatically.
2. Set Timing parameters for each Section.
   • Toggle Date/Time fields to ON and set dates/times.
     • Open = date/time students can gain access
     • Close = due date; students can no longer work the assignment past this date/time
     • WARNING!  If unset, assignment has no restriction and is and/or will remain OPEN!
     • If a Time Limit is required, toggle Time Limit field to ON if required.
       • Real-Time running clock
       • Recommended for Testing purposes.
       • Attempts allowed is an Override to the template settings.
         • Adjusting the number of attempts alters this assignment only.
3. Click Save & Continue to Questions.

Questions Tab

1. On the left-hand panel, Select the Student Orientation Question Bank from the drop-down field.
   
   All orientation questions will be shown in the center panel.
   • Optional:  Use the Chapters/Modules Filter to reduce list to select topics (as desired)
2. In the center panel, Select Questions to assign.
   • Click boxes to add multiple questions at once.
   • Click on the question to expand options.
     • Preview
     • Add static version
   • Click Add Questions.
     • Added/included questions will appear on the right-hand panel.
3. Optional:  Click Set Points if you want to change the default point value per question or the overall assignment value. (Set to 0 points to make it ungraded) 
   • Points can also be manually changed/distributed by clicking in the points field for a question, backspace, enter the new value, Enter.
   • Assignment Value is sum total of all questions' point values.Optional:  Click to check Shuffle to change the order questions are received by each student.
4. Click Save & Exit.