Tag Archives: proctored

Academic Integrity, Testing, and Blackboard

More and more courses are being taught online or at least have an online component in the course work. Testing is often a part of online courses, just like it is in traditional, face-to-face courses. When administering an online test, there are a few strategies you can employ that will encourage honesty. Random Questions, Random Answers The first and most effective strategy is to provide students with a randomized test. IDS recommends putting your test questions into one or more...

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...