Creating and editing tests (Video Guide)

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• Tests must be in a visible folder (not hidden from students). If not, the test and any related feedback or grades will not be visible to the students.

• Use the Student Preview tool to check if assessments are visible, see how tests look, take a test, and gave feedback. When you return to the instructor view, save changes if you want to see any activity you do as student preview user. Your student will appear as “Name_PreviewUser”.

• Once there is a submission for a test, the test can’t be edited. If you need to make changes, you would have to delete any student submissions.

• To delete a submission, click on their name for that submission in the gradebook and click on the 3 dots next to the grade and click delete. Note: this video shows the old grading view - as of Aug 2023, the ‘flexible grading’ is used - however, you still find the '…' to delete a student submission

• Add a test to your course by clicking on the + icon in Course Content and click Create, or Copy Content. Find more information about copying specific items here.

• You can set up Automatic Zeros via the Gradebook Settings if you want students to get a zero if they do not submit by the due date. However, if you bring over tests from previous classes with due dates in the past, all students will get automatic zeros and will have to be changed manually.

• *Some instructors have had issues with automatic zeros being glitchy, so you might want to have them turned off until further improvements are made.

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• Students can access assessment from Gradebook or Content area

• From the content area, student will see title of quiz, due date, & short description (750 characters max)

• From the gradebook, student will see the title of the quiz & due date

• When they click on the heading (From either view), a side panel opens, Student will see:

  • due date (red past due if late)

  • any parameters you have placed around the submission (e.g. prohibit late submissions)

  • time limit (if there is one)

  • # of attempts remaining

  • Grading information

  • Your short description of the test

• Students click ‘Start attempt’ to begin

  • If it is a timed test, the timer will begin (message pops up to ‘start timer’)

• Once they have completed the assessment, what they will see depends on the settings you have deployed

• From content area, click ‘+’ create, from the side panel, select Test

  • Name your quiz (this is what students will see, so it’s good to be descriptive but concise; some instructors like adding what the assessment is valued in the overall course)

  • Add a short description for your test (that will be seen from the content area & when the side panel opens) 750 characters

  • Adjust remaining settings accordingly

• Click Add content in the ‘Create your assessment’ section

  • Select the plus icon

  • Add text if you would like to provide more instruction OR if you would like to add text or visuals for student to use in future questions

• Pagination can be set to organize text & questions in a specific way

• Choose a question type and build your question

• Currently the default points is 10, adjust if you wish

• Reuse questions – will take you to all of the questions you have used in this course (copy a full test over … or mass upload questions … )

• You may add automated feedback (calculated formula; calculated numeric; hotspot; matching; multiple choice; true false) or Example of correct response for (essay)

• Reorder questions by sliding up or down

• If you check on ‘extra credit’ these points are ABOVE the total points for exam

• Turn off additional content to reduce confusion

• When a test is visible, students can start it

• If a test is ‘hidden’ from students (or in a hidden folder), they can not access or complete it

• You can set up release conditions to make it available at a certain time.

• Start in destination course > copy content > drill down to find the test you would like to copy

• Alter due dates

  • can alter many due dates/visibility quickly through batch edit area

• Alter release conditions

• Questions from copied test can be accessed and used in another test (and you can edit specific questions/points etc)

• When you make it visible students can see it and start it right away

• Once a student has accessed the quiz, there are some settings you can no longer change

  • Time limit

  • Cannot add/delete questions

• Change visibility to avoid students accessing before you are ready

• If a student accesses the test, but does not complete it, there is no way to adjust the test

• If it was your preview user that started the test, you can delete the attempt… (fully submit the attempt from the preview user > then delete it)

• If it was a student, and they didn’t submit the test, the test will show ‘saved draft’ and you cannot do anything about it.

• You can make a copy of the test, make the original hidden from students, edit the copy and then make it visible

How to delete an attempt

• Open the assessment, click on the students submission,

• Click on ellipses > delete

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Adjust your test settings to alter what students can see after their submission.

• In Assessment Results, you can choose if or when (ie: after the grades are posted) students can see certain information: Submission View, Automated Question Feedback, Question Scores, and Correct Answers.

• If Submission View is turned on, students will be able to see their entire assessment.

• Student view:

  • Students can access their results by clicking on Your Grade for the assessment in the Gradebook.

  • If multiple attempts have been set up, students can click Start attempt 2, etc. when clicking on their assessment.

  • If set up by their instructor, students can see their questions, scores, correct answers, and feedback for correct and incorrect responses, so that students know how they were supposed to answer the question.

• Turning off certain features will automatically make other features unavailable. For example, if you hide the submission from students, you will not be able to show correct answers.

• Note: If you have selected ‘available after all grades are posted’ for any setting- this includes ALL students and the preview user - if someone has not completed the exam and therefore does not have a posted grade, the setting will not be visible to students (not shown in video)

Accommodations

• Useful if you have received a letter from accessibility services specifying accommodations

• A due date & time limit accommodations within Blackboard will apply to all graded assessments for a specific student in your course.

• Can be set up from the roster or the gradebook

• A purple flag will appear beside the student with an accommodation (it is only visible to the instructor, not the student)

Due date accommodation:

• Students with a due date accommodation will not see ‘late’ in any of their items in the gradebook.

• If instructors have set up ‘prohibited late submissions’, and a student has a due date accommodation, their tests will not automatically submit.

Time limit:

• Setting a time limit accommodation will provide specific students with extra time on any timed assessment in their course

• Note: Students with a time limit accommodation are allocated their full time on tests even when they start very close to the due date. For example, the time limit overrides the automatic submission for students with a time limit accommodation.

Exceptions

• Exceptions can be made for specific students who need different parameters for a specific assessment

  • Locate the assessment in the gradebook.

  • Locate the student you would like to add an exception for.

  • Make alterations to due date, release conditions, or number of attempts.

Exemption

• Are used to excuse a student from completing a graded activity (so that it does not impact their overall grade).

• When an instructor exempts a gradebook item:

  • it not factored into the Overall Grade calculation.

  • It is not marked late for students who do not submit.

  • The students with an exemption will not receive an automatic zero (if this setting is set up).

  • Students can still submit for exempted items and instructors can grade and provide feedback (which mean it still appears in the students gradebook).