There are some exams and in-class tests where you require students to word process their answers and submit them to Blackboard in a single file. Turnitin is the obvious choice for this type of assessment, but is not suitable if you want students to provide their answers within a fixed…
Mark by question There may be situation where you would like to mark only one or two questions in a test manually. There may be a marking team were markers only mark specific questions or there may only be a few questions that require manual marking. Mark Questions From the…
Blackboard Tests cannot be marked anonymously, but you can hide student names while marking. From the options on the Grade Centre column, choose Mark with Usernames hidden. If marking by question (see above) there is a Hide Usernames button. Once hidden, students display as shown below.
Before making a summative test available to students it is important to check that all test questions and answers display correctly the appropriate settings have been applied. However it can be difficult to fully check out a test and its settings, whilst also ensuring that the test is not prematurely…
Introduction When creating questions for your Blackboard Test, you may wish to add Audio or Video files for students to respond to. Normally, when creating videos for your students, you should upload the video to Stream, then embed it into Blackboard. However this may not be appropriate for videos which are…
File Response questions are one of the supported question types for Blackboard tests. You cannot do a batch download of the files uploaded by students – you will need to download these files one at a time. If marking by student Click on the link to each file to download…
Can I correct a mistake in a test which has already been taken by students? Once a test has been taken by students, you cannot add more questions change the number of questions in a question set change a random block in the test However you can correct the wording…
Introduction This option allows you to deploy a test with different settings for specific users – for instance if you have students who are entitled to additional time. The settings which you can personalise for users are: Multiple Attempts Time in minutes Auto-Submit Availability Forced Completion Test Availability Exceptions When…
For general help on marking Blackboard Tests see the Blackboard Help site: Grade Tests Why might I need to mark Test attempts? Blackboard marks most question types in a Test automatically. The two scenarios where you will need to mark Test attempts are questions without a right/wrong answer (for example Essay,…
This article provides advice for situations where students are completing an online test remotely, and some students are likely to have a poor or intermittent internet connection. Introduction Blackboard advise that when students might have an unreliable internet connection, you should avoid Force Completion Auto Submit These are explained on…