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Blackboard 9.1 Creating a Test
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Creating a Test
The primary purpose of the Test Tool is to evaluate student understanding of concepts and/or to provide drills or other practice exercises. Blackboard offers 17 question types, and questions can be reused in other tests and surveys in your courses. New in Blackboard 9.1 is the ability to easily find questions you have created, to link to questions (and have changes reflected to all quizzes using the link), to reorder questions via drag-‐and-‐drop, to build reusable question sets, and on the grading side, to quickly grade individual questions across your class (e.g. grade only the essay questions submitted by your students). You can no longer attach files to test questions, but using the Add Mashup tool, you can add online media from YouTube, Flickr and Slideshare. [See the “Using Media in Tests and Surveys” tutorial for more information.]
To create a test:
1. In the Course Management menu, click to expand the Course Tools, then click on Tests, Surveys, and Pools.
2. On the Tests, Surveys, and Pools page, click the Tests link. 3. Click on the [Build Test] button. 4. The Test Information page will appear:
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Give the test a Name (1), and (optionally) a Description (2). Then, complete the Instructions box (3) with information for your students.
5. Click the [Submit] button. 6. You will now see the Test Canvas page. From the Create Question tab (1), select
the type of question you want to create, for example, a Multiple Choice (2) question.
7. Enter the Question Text in the box provided. [Question Title is optional] 8. In the Options section:
a. Answer Numbering – allows you to change between numbers, Roman numerals, or uppercase or lowercase letters.
b. Answer Orientation – allows you to display questions vertically down the page or horizontally across the page.
c. Allow Partial Credit -‐ If partial credit is allowed, each incorrect answer can specify what percentage of the total points should be given for that answer.
d. Show Answers in Random Order – if checked, this will display the answers in a random order each time the question is presented
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9. In the Answers section:
Choose the Number of Answers (1) you want to offer. If there are too many choices, click the [Remove] button (2) from one of the existing choices. Next, enter the text for each Answer choice (3). By default, the first answer will be the correct one. If in Section 2 you check Show Answers in Random Order, you can leave the Correct Answer (4) as 1 since all of the answer choices will be randomly displayed to the students.
10. In the Feedback section, you can enter optional feedback for correct and incorrect student responses. This can often be helpful, for example, in pointing students back to text from class materials when they make mistakes.
11. In the Categories and Keywords section, you can optionally describe the test questions with metadata in order to assist with locating questions that meet certain requirements when creating future tests.
12. The Instructor Notes section is also optional. 13. Click the [Submit] button to continue and return to the Test Canvas page. Next to
the question you just created, on the right side of the screen, you can now assign a point value by clicking in the Points: box and entering a number.
14. Repeat the Create Question process until you have sufficiently built-‐out your test.
15. If you need to edit your test questions, you can do so at any time on the Test Canvas page by clicking the double down arrows next to the question.
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16. When you are finished adding questions, click the [OK] button at the bottom of the page. This completes creating the test, but the test is not yet available to students. See the “Making a Test Available” tutorial to continue.
