Category Archives: Control Panel

Test Availability Exceptions

In the past, some faculty have used the password option to make a test available to individuals after the official test-taking period has ended, or, in course sites that include both graduate and undergraduate students, to make sure only the grad students launch the grad exam and only undergrads take the undergrad exam. The Test Availability Exceptions feature makes it easier to manage this sort of situation. Even better, Availability Exceptions make it possible to extend the time limit on...

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Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools Updated: February 8, 2016

Creating Tests Using Question Pools and Random Question Blocks

In this video we’re going to look at how to build a test in Blackboard, using Blackboard’s Test creation tools. Rather than simply build a test, we’re going to show how you can use question pools and random blocks of questions to make it more difficult for students to cheat through collaboration and answer sharing. If the question-creation process looks too time consuming, IDS can create question pools of some question-types for you if you provide us a properly formatted...

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Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools , , , , , , Updated: May 4, 2016

Deploying a test

Test creation is a two step process: creating the test itself, then adding it to the course content area for student access. Tests are created and managed in the course Test Manager, but they are deployed (or “attached”) within the Content area to make them available to students. During this process, criteria is established regarding timing, availability, completion, etc....

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Content Area, Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools , , Updated: February 8, 2016

Add Piazza to your Blackboard Course

Piazza is a free, third-party question and answer tool available to use through Blackboard. Piazza discussion differs from standard Blackboard discussion in a number of ways, primarily in that it is geared toward students collaborating to produce a single response to a question or discussion prompt in a wiki-like fashion, rather than each student responding individually. Piazza set up is a two-step process. First, we add the Piazza tool link to the course, then we create or choose the Piazza...

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Discussion, Piazza Updated: January 21, 2016

Tool Availability

The University of Detroit Mercy’s Blackboard course management system include a number of tools that may not be initially available inside a course site. If you are interested in using a Blackboard tool that is not available in your course, check to see if the tool is installed and just needs to be made available to use. To make a tool available to use, go to CUSTOMIZATION under the Course Management heading. Then click TOOL AVAILABILITY. Scroll down the list...

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Course Tools, Customization Updated: January 19, 2016
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