Student: Practice Quizzes: Davis Advantage

Create a Practice Quiz

To create a Practice Quiz, click on PLP (1) on the top navigation menu. Then, click to display Quizzing (2). Next, click a "Create Practice Quiz" button(3).

Screenshot of Personalized Learning Plan in Advantage with red boxes and numbers drawing attention to 1. PLP in the top navigation menu that the student can click to view their Personalized Learning Plans 2. Quizzing button that once clicked displays the Quizzing PLPs 3. Create Practice Quiz button that once clicked lets students create a practice quiz

You can also create a Practice Quiz by scrolling down to the bottom of your Advantage class Dashboard and clicking the "Create Practice Quiz" button seen there.

Screenshot of a student Advantage Dashboard, highlighting the "Create Practice Quiz" button.

Enter a name for your Practice Quiz (1). You instructor is able to see the name of the quiz.

You can choose content by Course Topic or by Concept (2). Course Topic will move in the order in which content appears in the textbook. Concept groups content under umbrella concepts and does not go in order of the textbook chapters.

Screenshot of Practice Quiz Builder in Advantage with red boxes and numbers calling attention to 1. Box in which student enters Quiz Name 2. Buttons for Course Topic and Concept, two different ways to display the topics selected for the quiz

You can Select All (3) to create a quiz covering all key topics in the class. Alternately, you can select one or more topics at a time (4). All topics you check off will be included on the Practice Quiz.

Next, select the number of questions in your quiz (5). You can choose between 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 questions.

The Practice Quiz will default to filter out questions you have previously answered correctly (6). If you do not want the quiz to filter out questions you have previously answered correctly, you can click No.

Next, click Start Quiz (7) to begin taking your Practice Quiz.

Your Practice Quiz will generate regarding the parameters you chose on the "Practice Quiz Builder" screen.

Screenshot of example Practice Quiz question with five answer choices

Review Results

Once you have completed a Practice Quiz, you can review the questions you answered correctly and incorrectly, and the rationale for each question's correct answer.

You can click Show All Details (1) to expand the correct answer and rationale for every question at once. You can click Return to Assignments (2) to go back to your Assignments page. You can also click Show (3) to view the correct answer and rationale for one single question at a time.

Screenshot of Feedback page for Practice Quizzes with red boxes and numbers drawing attention to 1. Show All Details button to drop down correct answers and rationales for each quiz question 2. Return to Assignments button that when clicked brings student back to Assignments page and 3. Show button to drop down correct answer and rationale for one question at a time

You can always review previously-completed Practice Quizzes by going to PLP (1), then Review (2).

Screenshot of Practice Quizzes page in Advantage with red boxes and numbers drawing attention to 1. PLP in top navigation menu that student can click to view PLP page and 2. Review button that student can click to review a practice quiz