Assessments
There are five major stages in the assessment lifecycle. The help resources we've arranged below focus on the three stages instructors will engage with: Create, Deploy, and Grade.
Creating a Test
There are four overall steps to creating a test:
Create the Test [Read It!]
Specify the Question Settings [Read It!]
Add the Questions [Read It!]
Order the Questions [Read It!]
Basic Question Types
Basic Question Types [Read It!]
Creating a True or False Question ] [Read It!]
Creating a Multiple-Choice Question[Read It!]
Creating a Multiple-Answer Question [Read It!]
Creating an Ordering Question [Read It!]
Creating a Matching Question [Read It!]
Creating a Fill-in-the-Blank Question [Read It!]
Creating an Essay Question [Read It!]
Advanced Question Types
Creating a Fill-in-Multiple-Blanks Question [Read It!]
Creating a Calculated Numeric Question [ [Read It!]
Creating a Hot Spot Question [Read It!]
Creating a Jumbled Question[Read It!]
Creating a Likert Question [Read It!]
Creating a Quiz Bowl Question [Read It!]
More Options ...
Setting Test Options [Read It!] [Read More!]
Please Note: The "Force Completion" option is not recommended.
Deploying Tests
After you have created a test and have had added questions to it, the next step is to deploy the test. This means you must add the test to a Content Area, Learning Module, Lesson Plan, or folder, and make it available to students. Below is a link to a document that outlines the steps required to add a test to a Content Area.
Grading Tests
Blackboard Learn grades all question types automatically except the following:Short Answer,Essay,and File Response. From the Grade Center, you can view test results and manually grade these types of questions.
Viewing and Grading Tests [Read It!]
Viewing and Grading by Question [Read It!]
Overriding Grades [Read It!]
Grading Anonymously [Read It!]
Getting Started with Automatic Regrading [Read It!] [Read More!]
Viewing Attempts Statistics [Read It!]
Clearing Attempts [Read It!]
Offering Partial Credit [Read It!]
Creating and Using Surveys
You can use surveys to poll student opinion. Survey results are anonymous, but you can see whether or not a student has completed a survey and also view the aggregate results for each survey question.There are four major steps in the survey lifecycle:
Creating and Deploying Surveys [Read It!]
The Student Experience
This brief description explains how students access tests in Blackboard Learn. [Read It!]
Please note: This content was repurposed from training material purchased from Blackboard and is available only to MacEwan faculty, staff and students. Once per visit, you may have to provide your MacEwan credentials to access some of this content.
