Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Blackboard: Creating and Managing Assessments Sangeetha Khichadia Educational Technologist Instructional Development Center Teaching and Learning Technologies

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Agenda Create an assessment Create questions Edit assessment settings Take and submit an online quiz Grade assessments and reset a submission

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Types of Assessments You can create 3 unique types of assessments: Quiz: grades recorded; automated or manual grading depending on question types Self-test: for practice; test student’s knowledge of course content; grades not recorded Survey: anonymous responses; grades not assigned

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Overview of Assessments Assessments Tool Functions by Tab Build Using Assessment tool create and edit questions and assessments. manage the Question Database Teach Using Assessment Manager tool grade assessments, reset submissions and run reports Build or Teach edit assessment properties

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Logging In Log into your Training Course Go to: Select: Purdue Non-Academic Campus Login with your Purdue Career Account username and password

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Assessment Creation Process Necessary first step: add the Assessment tool to your class To create an assessment, complete the following tasks: Create questions Create the assessment and add the questions Assign points Apply assessment settings For today’s workshop, we’ll create the following question types: Multiple Choice, Matching and Paragraph

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Create a Multiple Choice question Title: Purdue Mascot Question text: What is the official Purdue mascot? Answers: a)Purdue Pete b)Rowdy c)The Boilermaker Special * d)Boilermaker

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Create a Matching Question Title: Purdue buildings Question text: Match the following honorees with their named buildings Answers: Steven C. Beering matches Hall of Liberal Arts and Education Helen R. Johnson matches Hall of Nursing Maurice G. Knoy matches Hall of Technology

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Create a Paragraph question Title: Why Purdue Question text: In one to three paragraphs, explain why you chose to come to Purdue. Answer: My decision to come to Purdue University was based on…

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Editing Assessment Properties Available Assessment Properties Self Test  Title  Question titles  Question delivery  Dates Available SurveyAll of the settings above, plus:  Duration  Submission Settings  Security Settings QuizAll of the settings above, plus:  Attempts allowed  Attempts separation  Student score  Student score release  Results Settings Refer to page 29 of the manual

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Viewing and Grading the Assessments With Assessment Manager, you can: –Grade Assessments by Student –Grade Assessments by Question –Regrade Questions –Modify Quiz Grades –Run Reports

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Grading Assessments Manually You will need to grade an assessment manually if: –the assessment includes a paragraph question –a student successfully defends an incorrect response on a question –a question was originally scored incorrectly. You can manually grade questions in two ways: –grade by student (click Attempt) –grade by question (Powerlinks menu > Grade all Attempts)

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Suggestions for successful quizzing Create a practice quiz in your class…give 1 or 2 points just for taking it If you use paragraph questions that require long answers, perhaps suggest they write them in MS word or some other application before pasting in the text field (if this fits your situation) Question feedback is good for learning! Make it easy on yourself: re-use questions; use the “base on” option

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Successful quizzing tips contd. Concerned about cheating? –Make your quizzes many and frequent –Make them “low stakes” –Use availability settings, duration settings, proctor password (depending on your situation) –Create “randomized quizzes” (using question sets) – everyone gets a different quiz –Don’t release the answers in your results (but will this “decrease” learning?)

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop For Blackboard help… Search ITaP Knowledgebase – Contact the Instructional Development Center: – –call (765) –web form Ask Dr. C (