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Blackboard Test/Survey Generator

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Formats and Simple Markup

• Each question and answer begins with a number or letter (your choice) followed by a period i.e. .
• Each question is separated from the next by a blank line

How to write the different Question Types

• Multiple Choice
• Multiple Answer
• True-False
• Essay
• Ordering
• Fill-in-the-blank
• Matching

• Type your question.
• Type each answer on a fresh line
• Put an asterisk * in front of the correct answer

Example

1. The Pool Manager in Blackboard is
a. A high-schooler on their summer vacation
b. Paul Newman hustling Tom Cruise
*c. A mechanism for creating quizzes in Blackboard

• Type your question.
• Type each answer on a fresh line
• Put an asterisk * in front of all the correct answers

Example

1. Which of the following animals have 4 legs?
*a. Dogs
*b. Cats
c. Snakes
*d. Mice
e. Humans

• Type your statement.
• Type T or F on the next line (actualy it can be t or f or true or false -- it doesn't matter). Notice that this is the exception to the rule of lines beginning with a number or letter followed by a period.

Example

1. This is pretty neat
True

• Type your question.

Example

1. Write all you know about Mongolian Fruitbats

• Start the question line with "ord"
• Type your question.
• Type your answers in the correct order. It will be automatically shuffled into a random order for the quiz.

Example

ord   1. List the following coins in value from high to low
a. dollar
b. quarter
c. dime
d. nickel
e. penny

• Start the question line with "BL" or "bl"
• Type your question with only one place for the blank (this is a Blackboard limitation).
• Type as many alternative answers as you see fit, e.g. alternate spellings

Example

bl   1. There are _____ regular cards in a pack of cards
a. 52
b. fifty-two
c. fifty two

• Start the question line with "mat"
• Type your question.
• Type the matches separated by slashes /
• The order of choices will be automatically randomized for the quiz.
• You can have more matches than answers on either side by just leaving that part blank e.g. in the following example, both Ronald Reagan and Teddy Kennedy are distractors.
• Put distractors at the end. Also, there seems to be a bug where Blackboard doesn't like having a question with no answer, so below, f is the format preferred over g. I haven't really tested this heavily.

Example

mat   1. Match the candidate with their running mate
a. George Bush (senior) / Dan Quayle
b. George W. Bush / Dick Cheney
c. Al Gore / Joe Lieberman
d. Bill Clinton / Al Gore
e. Michael Dukakis / Lloyd Bentsen
f.   / Teddy Kennedy
g.  Ronald Reagan /