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Tips For Administering Tests/Quizzes Via Blackboard |
- Requesting Use of the Academic
Technologies Online Testing Center
- Practice Quiz
- If you are planning to use the online quiz feature that
Blackboard provides, we suggest that you require all students to
take a "practice" quiz prior to taking a "graded" quiz in
Blackboard. The "practice" quiz should be short, password protected
(if you password protect “graded” quizzes) and include the same
question types used in the "graded" quiz (e.g., true/false, multiple
choice, etc.). We recommend that you make the "practice" quiz
available to students at least one week prior to giving a "graded"
quiz and that you allow students to take the quiz multiple times.
Taking the time to have students take a "practice" quiz is well
worth the effort. It relieves much of the fear and frustration a
student may experience the first time they take a quiz in
Blackboard. The "practice" quiz also confirms that the student can
login to Blackboard, access the correct course site, navigate within
the course site, follow your instructions for taking the quiz, and
successfully interact with and submit the quiz.
- Verify that Quiz is Working Properly
- Prior to deploying a quiz in Blackboard, please take each of
your quizzes yourself to ensure the password works correctly (if a
password is used), identify
any typographical errors, and verify that a perfect score can be
achieved. To take a quiz prior to making it available to students, click
on the associated link to the quiz in the Control Panel.
- Student Instructions for Quizzes Given in Blackboard
- Additional Student Instructions for Quizzes Given in the
Online Testing Center
- We recommend that the following text (copy and paste) be placed
in a general announcement in Blackboard for students that will be
taking a quiz in the
Online
Testing Center (E418):
The Online Testing Center is located in the Education building in room 418
and is open 8 AM to 8 PM Monday through Thursday and 8 AM to 5 PM on
Friday. You need to sign up online to schedule your exams. To sign up,
go to http://itc.boisestate.edu/testinglab
and click on "Schedule an Exam." Please read the center policy on
student conduct. The center phone number is 426-1435, however students
should use the online form to request an exam time.
- Other instructions may
include:
Notify a proctor immediately if you experience a problem
Turn off your cell phone
Put all purses/backpacks/papers/materials
in the box on the floor under the desk
Talk with the testing proctor only
Report
any cheating to the testing proctor
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Blackboard Assistance at Boise State
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email: |
blackboard@boisestate.edu |
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phone: |
(208)
426-2583 (8-5 Mon-Fri) |
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office: |
Education 420 |
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