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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 Question Set


Question Set is created while you are editing a test. When you add a question to a test using the Question Set feature, you are linking to the question in a question pool. Until you deploy the test, the question does not exist in the test. It exists only in the pool. Therefore, if you change the question in the pool, before deploying the test, the change will be shown in the test. However, once you deploy the test, the question is "unlinked" from the pool. Once the test is deployed, changes to the original question in the question pool will no longer show up on the test:

  1. 1. From the Test Canvas page, select Reuse Questions | Create Question Set. The Create Question Set page is displayed:

  2. 2. Select the pools and tests from which you want to select the questions.

  3. 3. After selecting at least one pool or test, you can use the other search criteria. This is optional.

  4. 4. The results of your search are listed on the right-hand side of the page. Select the questions that you...