Instructors use the Quiz tool to give tests, quizzes or sometimes as a place to turn in assignments. There are steps that need to be completed in order for the quiz or homework to be properly recorded and graded. Some quizzes are set to be automatically graded. Some include short answer or essay sections that need to be reviewed and graded individually by the instructor. In any case, the "quiz" needs to be properly saved, finished and submitted for grading. Sometimes the student fails to follow all these steps and sometimes the browser capabilities of a student's computer system fails to process the quiz properly. Because of these factors, it is important that students check a number of points in order to insure proper quiz and homework credit.

Please follow these points:

1. Do your work ahead of the deadline.
   Leaving your homework until the last hour shortens the time available to solve problems you may encounter. This is especially true when homework is due at midnight, since your instructor or computer support people usually do not answer questions at that hour. This is especially important for the first homework assignment or quiz of the semester.
   
2. Be sure your browser allows pop-up windows.
   WebCT uses pop-up windows to present quizzes and other course components. It also uses Javascript, cookies and other programming tools to function. Please make sure your browser allows these. For more details, please go to the MTSU browser tuneup page.
   
3. Follow ALL the steps in the quiz tool.
   There are detailed instructions given at the start of each quiz. Please read them thoroughly before taking your first quiz and then refer back when you have questions or problems. Each question answered must be saved, then when you are finished, you must click on the Finish button. Then click OK to submit for grading if that option is presented.
   Check to see that the quiz was entered.

This depends a lot on how your instructor designed the quiz and the course. You can view your grades from the "My Grades" and "Student Profile" links if provided. If a quiz does not show up there, then the quiz was either not received or the instructor has not graded it yet. To get full details or to review your answers and instructor comments, you will need to get to the Quiz Tool page where all course quizzes are listed. The instructor may not have given you this option. Quizzes can be made available in other ways.