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Collection of Assessment guides. i.e. Creating assignments, Managing permissions, and Marking & Feedback
Online Exams Practice areas 2025
Online Exam Practice areas for 2025 are now live (for Staff – available to students from 29th April): Course Code/link Practice course PRACTICE_AREA_APD_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Agriculture 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_HES_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_BIO_2025 Online Exams Practice Area – Biological Sciences 2025 PRACTICE_AREA_HUM_2025 Online Exams Practice
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Overriding Marks in Blackboard Assignment Types
When marking assingments, journals and discussions with rubrics, you may need to override grades to create integer grades. However, you can undo the override. This guide aims to outline how to do this and explain some of the messages which are displayed when marking. Blackboard Assignments (One Submission)Blackboard Assignments (Multiple Submissions)Blackboard Assignments (Anonymous Submissions)Blackboard Assessed
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Recommended tools and settings for online exams 2025
Recommended Settings for submission points The recommended settings for each of the possible assessment tools are laid out step by step in the document Recommended settings for Online Exam submission points 2025, this is a word document, which will download. This is designed as a working document for Programme Administration teams, to help them apply
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Print Blackboard Tests
When you have created a Blackboard test you can choose to Print a physical copy of the test for students to take. This will be printed with an answer sheet for this specific test. This is useful for if you are Printing Pools of questions. The pop up print preview window will display the test
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Marking assignments with delegated marking
Delegated grading is primarily used where there are multiple markers, and each marker is assigned a selected group of students to mark. It is the only way to filter anonymous submissions by group in Blackboard Assignment. Delegated marking can be enabled when creating the submission point or by editing the settings, even after submissions have
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What to do when Marks are Posted in error
Posting Marks in the Gradebook or marking screen makes them visible to students. The “Post Marks” action is handled by Programme Administrator teams only for all summative assessment. Please follow this advice as it is not possible to un-post marks. Markers please advise your Programme Administrative team if you have posted marks for summative assessments
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Filtering the Gradebook
The Ultra Gradebook has filtering features which allow users to filter their gradebook view by multiple variables, such as individual users, groups, items, and categories. You can also filter the Gradebook to only show students on merged courses. This offers more flexibility for users wanting to get a focused view of their Gradebook. Applied filters
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Blackboard Assignment or Test – Attempt Logs
When reviewing assignments, you may wish to view a student’s attempt log to verify on-time submission, or track how long a test and test question took to complete. Go to the assignment submissions via the content area or Gradebook. On an individual student select the three dot menu and Attempt Log Depending on the type
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Groups File Exchange using Ultra Discussion
It is possible to set up a blackboard discussion to be used as a space where students can upload files and access one another’s files. Groups have separate channels within a discussion and cannot see the other groups’ discussions, instructors can see all groups. The students respond to a discussion using the full text editor
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