Tag Archives: exam

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...

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Build / Add Content, Create Assessment, Tests Surveys & Pools , , , , , , Updated: September 12, 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

Avoiding "locked out" students in proctored Blackboard tests.

In a situation where faculty are administering a proctored Blackboard test, such as in a computer lab environment, there have been instances where students get disconnected from the test. Once the student is disconnected the test normally needs to have the attempt cleared and the student needs to restart the test, which is not ideal for the faculty or the student. The student loses all progress and time previously applied to the test. A solution to avoid this situation, is...

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Create Assessment, Grade Center , , , , Updated: January 3, 2013