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When to Use?

This section guides you through creating, deploying, and managing tests in your courses. Whether you're building a quick knowledge check or a comprehensive exam, these topics show you how to configure test settings, control availability, and review student performance with ease.

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Procedure

Assessment Settings

Blackboard has many options for how to customize assessments. To access settings for tests, assignments, and forms select Settings on the new assessment’s page.

• Details & Information
• Prohibit Late Submissions and New Attempts After Due Date
• Collect Submissions Offline
• Presentation Options
• Grading & Submissions
• Assessment Results
• Access Code
• Time Limit

 

Create Tests

You can create tests alongside the other content students need as they prepare. The article covers:

• Distinguishing Assignments and Tests in Ultra
• The New Test page
• Adding Test Content
• Test Visibility
• Add questions to a test
• Align questions to goals
• Test question generation
• Add files and text blocks to tests
• Media file viewing options
• Add page breaks to tests
• Reorder questions, text, and files in a test
• Navigate the test interface
• Tests and the activity stream

Manage Tests

This article covers:

• Add, edit, and delete questions
• After students open an assessment
• Give full credit
• Student view of full credit
• Edit files within questions
• Reorder questions, text, and files
• Edit, reorder, and delete tests
• Delete tests
• Other deletion considerations

Forms

Forms can be used in a variety of situations to get feedback from your students. 

• Create a form
• Form settings
• View submissions and student activity

Questions

Blackboard offers a variety of question types to help instructors assess student understanding in dynamic and engaging ways.

• Calculated Formula Questions
• Calculation Numeric Questions
• Essay Questions
• Extra Credit Questions
• Fill in Multiple Blanks Questions
• Fill in the Blank Questions
• Hotspot Questions
• Jumbled Sentence Questions
• Likert Questions
• Matching Questions
• Multiple Answer Questions
• Multiple Choice Questions
• True/False Questions

Question Analysis

Question analysis provides statistics on overall performance, assessment quality, and individual questions. This data helps you recognize questions that might be poor discriminators of student performance. 

Reuse Questions

You can reuse questions and other content from all existing tests, assignments, and question banks in your course. You can also copy question banks from other courses and import questions into your course to add to your assessments.

• Question Banks
• Question Pools
• Upload or Import Questions

Download Assessments

To accelerate your grading process, you can download individual students' assessment submissions and view them offline. 

Items you can download:

• Content and files that students create and attach in the editor for their submissions.
• Submissions from the Gradable items or Grades view of the gradebook.

 

Items you can't download:

• Content and files attached to assessment questions. For example, if an assessment has only essay questions, students' answers aren't downloaded.
• Group submissions or discussions.

 

Print Assessments

You can print assessments to:

• Accommodate students with specific needs or limited technology access.
• Provide a printed assessment for testing in designated centers.
• Support backups and record keeping.
• Conduct offline assessment.
• Maintain documentation and compliance.
• Sustain security and integrity.

See also: Printing Tests and Answer Keys

Miscellaneous Test Articles

Adding or Editing a Correct Answer in a Quiz or Test

This article explains how to add or edit a correct answer in a quiz, even if students have completed it.

Attempt Logs for Assignments and Tests

This article explains how to find and use attempt logs for assessments and tests.

Blackboard Ultra - Authentic Assessment

This article is a resource for faculty that are interested in learning more about Authentic Assessment. It provides instructors with a consolidated list of tools and best practices for transforming a course beyond traditional exams or research papers to more authentic assessments.

Difference Between Selecting “Subtract points for incorrect answers” and “Allow partial credit”

This article discusses the difference between selecting “Subtract points for incorrect answers” and “Allow partial credit”.

Exporting Tests with Pool Questions to PDF or Word

This article guides faculty through the process of exporting test pool questions from Blackboard Ultra into a PDF or Word document. It provides a simple workaround for users who may be unable to use Respondus 4.0, making it easy to review question sets offline, share assessments, or maintain a backup copy. The step-by-step instructions cover creating a test to extract pool questions and saving the test as a PDF, which can then be opened and edited in Word or Google Docs if needed.

Online Test Troubleshooting

This article addresses common issues students experience while taking tests in Blackboard Ultra and offers solutions.

Tag Questions with Metadata in Tests and Question Banks

Instructors can now tag questions with metadata when creating or editing questions in tests, forms, and banks.

Using Blackboard Ultra's Analytics Tools   

Blackboard Analytics is a course level reporting tool that can give instructors key insights into the ways that students use the tools, content, and assessments within a course. The reports provide real time learning statistics, such as logins, minutes spent, and interactions that will help faculty understand trends in student interactions and the relationship between time spent in a course and students’ grades.

View-Submission-One-Time Test Results Setting

The View submission one time option lets instructors provide students with immediate feedback before the test is officially released.