How do students take an assessment?

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Overview


The assessment tool allows your students to takes quizzes, exams, surveys, and self-tests online . They may be graded automatically, or by the instructor.
Session Timeout
WARNING: Blackboard sessions timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity. Web Browsers DO NOT register typing as activity. If you're typing an assignment, assessment, or discussion submission for longer than 30 minutes, the session may timeout when the submit button is pressed. This means that you may lose your work.

TIP: To prevent lost work, create your content in a word processor,
         and then copy & paste the content into Blackboard.

Student View Tab
Preview your course as a Student

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The Student View tab allows you to see and interact with Blackboard exactly as your students do. Blackboard provides each course with a Demo Student Account for testing. This demo account is used when you take quizzes and submit assignments while in the Student View tab. In the student view, you are able to see exactly what your students see including the My Grades area. Use the Student View tab whenever you have a question about how your students will view and work in your Blackboard course.

  • To preview a Web Page as the students will see it, click on the Student View tab.

Take/Submit Your Assessments

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  • Click on Assessments from the course menu
  • Click on the title of the assessment you wish to take
 
  • NOTE: If you do not see the Assessment you are looking for, it may be displayed on the next page. At the bottom of the window, you will find Next Page Next Page and Previous Page Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assessments.
Can't find what you're looking for?
There are several possibilities:
  • Perhaps it has not been released yet by the instructor?
  • Is it on the next page? Permanently increase the default number of items displayed per screen by modifying your global Bb's Paging Preference.
  • A description of the assessment is displayed
  • Click Begin Assessment

  • Select your answer for a each question
Session Timeout
WARNING: Blackboard sessions timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity. Web Browsers DO NOT register typing as activity. If you're typing an assignment, assessment, or discussion submission for longer than 30 minutes, the session may timeout when the submit button is pressed. This means that you may lose your work.

TIP: To prevent lost work, create your content in a word processor,
         and then copy & paste the content into Blackboard.

  • Click Save Answer, and move to the next question
  • Click Save All when you are finished
  • Click Finish to submit your assessment

Assessment

 

  • If you experience a session timeout after 30 minutes of inactivity or if you experience a Web browser or computer crash during an assessment, all previously saved answers should still be there when you begin the assessment again. When you log back into the Blackboard assessment, click the Continue button to finish the assessment.

    NOTE: Time remaining for an assessment counts down in "real-time" and decreases even when you are not logged into Blackboard.

 

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