Advanced Blackboard

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Advanced Blackboard

• Instructional Technology Department
• Instructionaltech_at_baker.edu

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Objectives

• Create and modify tests
• Create question pools
• Manage items in the Gradebook
• Weight items in the Gradebook
• Add automatic items to the Gradebook
• Generate course statistics

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Control Panel Review
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Assessments vs. Surveys

• Tests
• Evaluation method
• Graded by Blackboard
• Results display in Gradebook

• Surveys
• Completed anonymously
• Not graded
• Information gathering purposes

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Question Types

• Essay
• Fill in the blank
• Matching
• Multiple answer
• Multiple choice
• Ordering
• True/False

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Basic test considerations

• How many questions will be on the test?
• Do I need to include instructions for answering
  each question ?
• What will the point value be for each question?
  Of the entire test?
• Does each question have one clear answer?

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Strategic test considerations

• What type of questions will be on the assessment?
  Are they appropriate for the level of the course?
  
• Is a test the best way to measure student
  learning on this topic(s)?
• When should the students take the assessment?
  Does the timing make sense when considering the
  rest of the course activities?

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Question Demonstration
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Test Canvas screen
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Creation Settings
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Making the Test Available
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Assessment Activity

• Create a test for your course and make it
  available
• Create at least 2-3 questions
• Use pages 6-29 in your manual for reference
• Complete in 15 minutes

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Changing Question Order
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Question Activity

• Change the order of the questions on your test
• Use page 31 as a reference
• Complete in 5 minutes

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Question Categories

• Use for organization of future tests
• Must set the option to categorize on the Creation
  Settings screen
• Can add question to multiple categories
• Unable to categorize Survey questions

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Category Demonstration
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Question Pools

• Saves time for instructor
• Allows you to reuse questions from course to
  course
• Export pool from one course
• Import pool into current course
• Ensures consistency in the question itself

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Creating a Question Pool
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Manage Gradebook

• Provides you with the ability to
• Add new items to the Gradebook
• Modify existing items
• Delete items
• Reorder items
• Gives you more control the contents of the
  Gradebook

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Manage Items Demonstration
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Gradebook Settings

• Allow you to change the following items in the
  Gradebook
• Spreadsheet settings (student view)
• Add and manage Gradebook categories
• Create and modify grade display options

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Settings Demonstration
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Grade Weights

• Weight grades by categories or by individual
  items
• Allows you to combine several items for one total
  weight
• Lets you make all of the Assignments in your
  class worth 40 of the grade, regardless of the
  number of Assignments

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Weighting Demonstration
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Weighting Activity

• Create several items in the Gradebook using the
  Manage Gradebook screen
• Refer to pages 47-49 in your manual
• Weight them appropriately for your course
• Refer to pages 52-53 in your manual
• Complete in 10 minutes

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Gradebook Assignments

• Can create an assignment in Course Docs or
  Assignments and it automatically adds a Gradebook
  item
• Functions like a Drop Box to hold student
  assignments
• Provides feedback form for each assignment

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Assignment Demonstration
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Course Statistics

• Help you monitor student activity in your course
• See student-specific or course generic
  information
• Export statistics to Excel for further
  manipulation

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Statistics Demonstration
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Statistics Activity

• Generate Course Statistics for your Practice
  Course
• Use pages 65-67 in your manual for reference
• Complete in 5 minutes

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Questions?