2009-2010 Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop

Blackboard:Creating and Managing

Assessments

Sangeetha KhichadiaEducational Technologist

sangeet@purdue.edu

Instructional Development Center

Teaching and Learning Technologies

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Agenda

• Create an assessment

• Create questions

• Edit assessment settings

• Take and submit an online quiz

• Grade assessments and reset a submission

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Types of Assessments

You can create 3 unique types of assessments:

Quiz:

• grades recorded; automated or manual grading depending on question types

Self-test:

• for practice; test student’s knowledge of course content; grades not recorded

Survey:

• anonymous responses; grades not assigned

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Overview of Assessments

Assessments Tool Functions by Tab

Build

Using Assessment tool

• create and edit questions and assessments.• manage the Question Database

Teach

Using Assessment Manager tool

• grade assessments, reset submissions and run reports

Build orTeach

• edit assessment properties

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Activity: Logging In

Log into your Training Course

Go to: http://blackboard.purdue.edu

Select: Purdue Non-Academic Campus

Login with your Purdue Career Account username and password

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Assessment Creation Process

Necessary first step: add the Assessment tool to your class

To create an assessment, complete the following tasks: • Create questions• Create the assessment and add the questions• Assign points• Apply assessment settings

For today’s workshop, we’ll create the following question types: Multiple Choice, Matching and Paragraph

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Activity: Create a Multiple Choice question

Title: Purdue Mascot

Question text: What is the official Purdue mascot?

Answers:

a) Purdue Pete

b) Rowdy

c) The Boilermaker Special *

d) Boilermaker

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Activity: Create a Matching Question

Title: Purdue buildings

Question text: Match the following honorees with their named buildings

Answers: Steven C. Beering matches Hall of Liberal Arts

and EducationHelen R. Johnson matches Hall of NursingMaurice G. Knoy matches Hall of Technology

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Activity: Create a Paragraph question

Title: Why Purdue

Question text: In one to three paragraphs, explain why you chose to come to Purdue.

Answer: My decision to come to Purdue University was based on…

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Editing Assessment Properties

Available Assessment Properties

SelfTest

Title Question titles Question delivery Dates Available

Survey • All of the settings above, plus: Duration Submission Settings Security Settings

Quiz • All of the settings above, plus: Attempts allowed Attempts separation Student score Student score release Results Settings

Refer to page 29 of the manual

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Viewing and Grading the Assessments

• With Assessment Manager, you can: – Grade Assessments by Student– Grade Assessments by Question– Regrade Questions– Modify Quiz Grades– Run Reports

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Grading Assessments Manually

• You will need to grade an assessment manually if:– the assessment includes a paragraph question– a student successfully defends an incorrect response on

a question– a question was originally scored incorrectly.

• You can manually grade questions in two ways:– grade by student (click Attempt)– grade by question (Powerlinks menu > Grade all

Attempts)

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Suggestions for successful quizzing

• Create a practice quiz in your class…give 1 or 2 points just for taking it

• If you use paragraph questions that require long answers, perhaps suggest they write them in MS word or some other application before pasting in the text field (if this fits your situation)

• Question feedback is good for learning!

• Make it easy on yourself: re-use questions; use the “base on” option

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Successful quizzing tips contd.

Concerned about cheating? Make your quizzes many and frequentMake them “low stakes”Use availability settings, duration settings, proctor password (depending on your situation)Create “randomized quizzes” (using question sets) – everyone gets a different quizDon’t release the answers in your results (but will this “decrease” learning?)

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For Blackboard help…

• Search ITaP Knowledgebase– https://www.purdue.edu/goldanswers/ss/

• Contact the Instructional Development Center:– email tlt-consulting@purdue.edu– call (765) 496-3257– web form

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/help/customer/useform.cfm

• Ask Dr. C (www.blackboard.com/ask_drc)