Create reports for Quizzes in D2L Brightspace

Summary

How do I create a report on a quiz to gather information on student performance? Where do I generate a report from a quiz?

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Understanding quiz reports

Use quiz reports to gather information on student performance. Quiz reports are different from quiz statistics; reports collect and present more types of information than is available through statistics. Choose a report type to display question statistics, question details, user statistics, attempt details, or user attempts. You can also select a release date and choose which roles have permission to view each report.

Create a report

  1. Navigate to the Quizzes tool in the course.
  2. On the Manage Quizzes page, select Setup Reports from the quiz’s drop-down menu.
  3. In the Setup Reports tab, select Add Report.
  4. Enter a Report Name.
  5. Select Report Type
  6. Select from the available options to customize the report’s output.
  7. Set when to release the report:
    • Select immediately to release it after any student has submitted a quiz attempt, or
    • Enter a future date and time (such as the quiz end date) to release it after all students have submitted a quiz attempt. 
  8. In the ‘Release Report To’ area, select the check box next to each role you want to release the report to.
    Important: Remember to include your Instructor role so you can access the report after you created it!
  9. Select Save.

Generate a report for a quiz

You can review and export a quiz report to a CSV or Excel file for data analysis. The file contains all applicable information on the quiz so that you can query, sort, and evaluate the data.  You must set up quiz reports from the Reports Setup tab for the appropriate quiz before you can view or export reports. 

  1. Navigate to the Quizzes tool in the course.
  2. From the quiz’s drop-down menu, select the View Reports.
  3. Select the name of the report you want to view.
  4. Select dates in the From and To check boxes to restrict your report to a specific time frame.  
  5. Do one of the following:
    • Select Generate CSV Report to open and save the report as a CSV file.
    • Select Generate Excel to open and save the report as an Excel file.
    • Select Generate HTML Report to view the report in your browser.

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Article ID: 437
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Mon 8/18/25 4:25 PM
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