Take/Submit Your Assessments

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Overview
Take/Submit Your Assessments

Overview

The assessment tool allows students to take quizzes, exams, surveys, and self-tests online. These can either be graded automatically through Blackboard or by your instructor.

Before beginning an assessment, note the following assessment settings:

Availability
Duration
Question Delivery Method
Attempts Allowed
Total Grade Value

If you exit an assessment before submitting it, you may continue the assessment as long as the allotted time for the assessment has not expired. To do so, click on the Continue Assessment button.

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

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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