1. Using BlackBoard in a Successful Redesign John Broida Psychology department, University of Southern Maine Redesign Scholar, National Center For Academic Transformation

2. What we were looking for Quizzes that could be taken repeatedly –Random selection of items from large pools –How many times to be determined by the instructor The system to report highest grade - –Students retake quizzes if grades cannot go down Feedback to students as to where to turn in the text for the correct answer. –Can directly link to pages in e-books Publisher support –We wanted publishers to create the quizzes for us They now do!

3. Why Blackboard? They meet those criteria. –Settings allow selection of highest grade (in grade book/grade center) –It is easy to create and use question pools At the chapter, section and even page level! Respondus does this for your own test items –Publishers create the pools and quizzes for us Some have been better than others about providing links to the pages