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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By : William Rice
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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By: William Rice

Overview of this book

Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating a test


Creating a test is a multipart process. The first part is to create a blank test. Next, you determine the behavior of questions using Test Question Settings. The next part is to create questions and add them to the test, using Test Canvas. The fourth part is to add the test to your course, and select settings for that occurrence of the test.

Creating a blank test

In this part of the process, you will create a blank test. Later, the test will need to be populated with questions and added to a page:

  1. 1. Navigate to the Content Page where you want to add the test.

  2. 2. Select Create Assessment | Test. The Create Test page is displayed.

  3. 3. Under the Add Test section, you can either select a test that has already been created in this course, or create a new test. In this example, we will select the Create button.

  4. 4. The Test Information page is displayed.

  5. 5. The Name and Description fields will be displayed on any page to which you add the test.

  6. 6. The Instructions field will be displayed...