Tag Archives: assessment

Create and Edit Tests

Assessment helps faculty members evaluate student understanding of course material.  Tests in particular can provide a way of measuring student performance, and enhance the overall effectiveness of your course.  The Assessment section of your Blackboard course site in the Content area allows you to create three different types of student assessment: Test, Surveys, and Assignments. This tutorial will focus on the basics of test creation.  While tests are held in a Test Manager portion of your course site, individual tests...

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....

Rubrics in Blackboard

Rubrics are an excellent tool for both standardizing how you grade an assessment AND to communicating your expectations to your students. You are likely already using one or more rubrics in your courses – perhaps you’re providing students with a Word or Excel rubric file. Blackboard has a built-in rubric tool which is both pretty powerful and easy to use. In this first 10 minute video, we look at the basics of creating a rubric. http://research.udmercy.edu/ids/video/rubric_intro.mp4 In this second 10...

Getting rubric reports

While Blackboard currently doesn’t have the option to download a detailed view of all scored rubrics that includes feedback, you do have the ability to generate a report that provides a broad overview of student performance on an assessment. To access the rubric reports for a column, load up your Grade Center, click the options button for the column in question, and select COLUMN STATISTICS. Then click the large RUBRIC EVALUATION REPORT button. Select the report file type from the...

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