Overview: With Blackboard Tests and Surveys, students complete the assessments online and submitted results are stored in one single location.
With Blackboard Tests and Surveys, you’ll be able to:
Examples of assessment strategies include adding a pre-test to the beginning of a lesson and a post-test at the end, or taking a survey of students’ background subject knowledge.
IMPORTANT: If you are planning to administer a Blackboard assessment during class (in a classroom on campus) and if students will be using their own laptops, they must use network cables and not rely on WiFi. If you are not scheduled in port-per-seat classroom, please schedule an appropriate room with the registrar.
Action: To add a test in Assignments (or any other content area) go to the page where you want to add the test.
2. Under Assessments, select Test:
Note:To create a survey, select Survey here instead of Test. The remaining steps are same as for tests. The only difference will be when you collect results in the Grade Center, where Survey results are recorded anonymously.
3. On the Create Test page, click the Create button to build a new test (or skip to step 8 if you have already built the test questions in the Blackboard Test Canvas):
4. On the Test Information page, provide aName(required), Description and Instructions (optional), and click Submit.
5. On the Test Canvas page, click Create Question and select the desired question type, for instance Multiple Choice:
6. Enter the question. Depending on the question type, enter the answers, designate the correct answer, and choose if you would like to randomize answer choices. Randomizing answer choices is good way to help prevent cheating.
7. Repeat (go back to step 5) for each question. When you are finished adding questions, click OK. This returns you to the Create Test page.
Note: You can stop here at any time and return later to the Test Canvas to keep adding questions. To do this, look for Test, Surveys, and Pools under Course Tools in the Control Panel, and select the Edit option for the desired test or survey.
8. On the Create Test page, select your newly (or previously) created test from the list and click Submit to deploy the test:
9. On the Test Options page, designate the test settings according to your preferences:
10. Click Submit. A link to the test or survey appears in the course area. If you would like to view how students see the test, simply click on the test link to access it:
Remind students that they should have a stable internet connection before taking a test. If they are taking the test in the classroom, please ask them to bring their network cables.
Action: Grade test and view results from the Grade Center (in the Control Panel).
2. Scroll through to locate the test and instantly view the test scores, as long as the questions can all be automatically graded by the system. If you need to manually score a question (for example, for essay or short answer questions), you will see the ! indicating an ungraded submission. Hover over and click the arrow next to the submission to open the attempt (select the desired attempt):
3. You will be able to view each question and how it was answered by the student. When you reach a question that is not scored, you can read the student’s response and enter the score and even feedback comments, if you would like:
4. After reviewing and scoring the test, click Save and Exit, or Save and Next to quickly move to the next student. The system will automatically total the test score.
Once graded, students will be able to see their scores in Blackboard through their My Grades tool.
Note: If you need to make changes to fix an answer choice after a test has been completed by students, you can simply make the edit to correct the answer choice inside the Test Canvas. The system will automatically re-grade the submissions that were made before you entered this correction.
Click here for complete documentation from Blackboard on Tests & Surveys: http://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/