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.
 

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 Student 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 tool. 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 your students will see it, click on Blackboard's Student View tab.

Assessment Tips

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Best Practices

Save each answer promptly
Always save each answer promptly as you move through an assessment to ensure it is recorded before any technical difficulties can occur. Return to any previously answered questions, change your answers, and press the save buttons again anytime during the assessment.


 

When a system error displays, log out of Bb immediately before continuing
A technical issue may occur during an assessment which causes an Error to display on the right side panel of the quiz screen. Once you see this error, all subsequent answers ARE NOT SAVED.

Error Appears here

If the assessment is interrupted or crashes while you are in the middle of taking it, immediately log out of Blackboard and then log back in to continue. All answers saved prior to the error's appearance are saved and you should be able to continue taking the assessment as long as the allotted time for the assessment has not expired.

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


  Delivery Methods

Three question delivery methods are available. Your ability to revisit questions to change your answers depends on which method has been selected by your instructor:
  • If questions appear all at once...
    answer them in any order. Save each answer IMMEDIATELY as you complete it. Return to previously answered questions and change your answers at any time. Navigate back to any question by scrolling directly to it or by clicking on the linked question number under Question Status (located in the right panel of your quiz screen).
  • If questions appear one at a time and you are allowed to revisit questions...
    answer them in any order. Save each answer IMMEDIATELY as you complete it. Return to previously answered questions and change your answers at any time. Navigate back to any question by clicking on the linked question number under Question Status (located in the right panel of your quiz screen). Note: It is not uncommon to experience delays of 10-12 seconds between questions which are delivered one at a time.
  • If questions appear one at a time but you are not allowed to revisit questions...
    questions must be answered in a given order. Save each answer IMMEDIATELY as you complete it—you will not be able to return to it later. Note: It is not uncommon to experience delays of 10-12 seconds between questions which are delivered one at a time.
     

  Tips

  • Do NOT navigate away from an assessment while you are taking it
    Do not navigate away from your Blackboard assessment or course while taking an assessment—or risk losing your work! If you open an assessment into a popup window and then browse back to the course listing page from the main window, your subsequent answers will APPEAR to save in the assessment popup window, but these answers ARE NOT SAVED.
  • Save answers every time you make a change
    Save any changes by pressing the save button for that question again.
  • Disable all pop-up blockers
    If all Pop-Up Blockers have not been disabled, serious problems will occur for you when you attempt to take an assessment.
  • Use caution while scrolling with your mouse
    Watch out for any inadvertent changes made when using a scrolling mouse.

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 and Previous Page icons you can use to navigate through the list of Assessments.
  • A description of the assessment is displayed
  • Click Begin Assessment

  • Select your answer for a each question
  • Click Save Answer, and move to the next question
    NOTE: Always save each answer promptly as you move through an assessment to ensure it is recorded before any technical difficulties can occur. Change a saved answer by pressing the save button again. If your assessment delivers each question one at a time and it is set to allow answer changes, click on the corresponding question number on the right side of the screen to jump to the question and revise your answer. Be sure to save your change by pressing the save button for that question again.
  • Click Save All when you are finished
  • Click Finish to submit your assessment

  • 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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