WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:06.750 Going to use maybe in quizzes and tests, 2 00:00:06.750 --> 00:00:08.250 you don't have to use pools. 3 00:00:08.250 --> 00:00:10.890 You can just build a number of tests 4 00:00:10.890 --> 00:00:13.440 and have them as you wish. 5 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:16.500 But if you have sometimes people from textbooks 6 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:21.000 have banks of questions that can put them in pools. 7 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.940 And the other reason why you might want to use pools 8 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:26.880 is if you're giving a test that has 9 00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:32.630 where you have the desire to let students take the test 10 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:36.020 but each have a slightly different version of it. 11 00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:38.300 So for instance say, 12 00:00:38.300 --> 00:00:42.360 I have a series of 10 questions 13 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:46.150 about a certain chapter in the textbook 14 00:00:46.150 --> 00:00:51.150 and I want students to get three of those questions 15 00:00:51.350 --> 00:00:55.130 but they can randomize within that block of 10 questions. 16 00:00:55.130 --> 00:00:58.530 So, you know, 17 00:00:58.530 --> 00:00:59.950 Patrick might get 18 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:03.450 question you know A, B and C, 19 00:01:03.450 --> 00:01:07.570 whereas someone else Jane might get 20 00:01:07.570 --> 00:01:11.230 question C, H and 21 00:01:11.230 --> 00:01:12.700 you know, what I mean, 22 00:01:12.700 --> 00:01:15.030 I should have used numbers, but anyway, 23 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:16.923 I'm going past 10, yikes. 24 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:20.810 My point is that 25 00:01:20.810 --> 00:01:23.303 within a block of questions on a topic, 26 00:01:24.810 --> 00:01:28.997 you can decide everybody will get a slightly different 27 00:01:28.997 --> 00:01:30.380 and it is randomized. 28 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:33.180 So some of them could accidentally get the same. 29 00:01:33.180 --> 00:01:36.100 Some could just get completely different ones 30 00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:38.070 or get some the same. 31 00:01:38.070 --> 00:01:41.160 It's Blackboard will just distribute it automatically 32 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:43.320 when students start the test 33 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:47.060 and you use a pool and a question set for that. 34 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:49.960 So you can say, I want to pull into my test 35 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:52.500 these 10 questions from a pool 36 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:54.140 and I want students to get 37 00:01:55.950 --> 00:01:58.200 three on this chapter 38 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:59.470 and then you're gonna do the same thing 39 00:01:59.470 --> 00:02:01.410 with the next chapter in the next chapter. 40 00:02:01.410 --> 00:02:03.450 And so maybe as they're taking the test 41 00:02:03.450 --> 00:02:06.570 they don't know that their friends have different questions. 42 00:02:06.570 --> 00:02:09.590 So it makes it a little harder for them to collude 43 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:12.393 if they should want to do that. 44 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:15.800 So pools are just question 45 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:19.110 banks really. 46 00:02:19.110 --> 00:02:23.220 And sometimes nobody ever uses the pool. 47 00:02:23.220 --> 00:02:25.790 When you click on test, 48 00:02:25.790 --> 00:02:28.410 by the way, surveys are very much like tests, 49 00:02:28.410 --> 00:02:30.890 except for there's no grading 50 00:02:32.010 --> 00:02:33.510 on students 51 00:02:33.510 --> 00:02:36.060 you can't tell what they answered, 52 00:02:36.060 --> 00:02:39.103 you can only see that there's a check mark that they did it. 53 00:02:40.770 --> 00:02:42.700 So that's for a whole different purpose 54 00:02:42.700 --> 00:02:44.970 than what we're going to talk about. 55 00:02:44.970 --> 00:02:46.953 Do you have any questions so far? 56 00:02:52.500 --> 00:02:53.830 Okay, go ahead. 57 00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:56.280 I actually have one Ines. 58 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:57.170 So 59 00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:00.693 I have existing paper tests. 60 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.010 Would a pool be a good place 61 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:12.800 to put all of the existing tests for a particular course 62 00:03:12.980 --> 00:03:14.590 and then construct 63 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:19.750 a midterm and a second test 64 00:03:19.750 --> 00:03:23.430 based on the material you covered that semester? 65 00:03:23.430 --> 00:03:26.803 Yeah. You can do that, but paper tests, 66 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:29.173 excuse me. 67 00:03:30.290 --> 00:03:33.570 I'm assuming that you have them in a digital file, 68 00:03:33.570 --> 00:03:34.477 like a word document. 69 00:03:34.477 --> 00:03:35.310 Yes. 70 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:36.650 Okay, yep. 71 00:03:36.650 --> 00:03:41.190 And so one of the things that I hope to get to 72 00:03:41.190 --> 00:03:42.680 is that 73 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:46.390 there are a couple of tools 74 00:03:46.390 --> 00:03:49.210 out on the internet that I can show you. 75 00:03:49.210 --> 00:03:50.740 Well, I'll show you one of them 76 00:03:50.740 --> 00:03:55.079 where you can format your word document questions 77 00:03:55.079 --> 00:03:57.620 in a very particular precise, 78 00:03:57.620 --> 00:03:59.940 exacting model 79 00:03:59.940 --> 00:04:03.780 that they require and you put them into this tool, 80 00:04:03.780 --> 00:04:06.630 it's a little field where you paste your questions 81 00:04:06.630 --> 00:04:08.720 and then you can generate 82 00:04:08.720 --> 00:04:11.780 a file that Blackboard can read. 83 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:16.780 So the work comes into making sure your formatting is right 84 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:19.500 you know, and I can explain all of that 85 00:04:19.500 --> 00:04:22.690 but then once you do it's magical. 86 00:04:22.690 --> 00:04:26.650 It just puts a file that you can then pull into Blackboard 87 00:04:26.650 --> 00:04:29.163 and create pools or tests with them. 88 00:04:30.090 --> 00:04:31.430 Okay. Thank you. 89 00:04:31.430 --> 00:04:32.263 Yes, 90 00:04:34.710 --> 00:04:37.783 Justin Schimmel, can you remind me when this ends? 91 00:04:38.650 --> 00:04:40.898 I wanna make sure I. 92 00:04:40.898 --> 00:04:42.373 It will end end at 10:00. 93 00:04:42.373 --> 00:04:43.713 10:00, okay, all right. 94 00:04:46.490 --> 00:04:48.480 So I have a number of tests 95 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.940 in my test area 96 00:04:52.940 --> 00:04:57.150 and they're just all different experiments. 97 00:04:57.150 --> 00:04:59.380 And you can see over here in this column 98 00:04:59.380 --> 00:05:01.240 are any of them deployed? 99 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.500 Meaning can students in my class take them, 100 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:07.780 there's one that is deployed. 101 00:05:07.780 --> 00:05:08.990 And it says where 102 00:05:11.540 --> 00:05:13.530 I made a folder 103 00:05:13.530 --> 00:05:15.290 up here in my course materials 104 00:05:17.820 --> 00:05:20.280 and I put this to just a fake, 105 00:05:20.280 --> 00:05:22.280 it's just a few questions but 106 00:05:22.280 --> 00:05:25.700 I put a test here first 107 00:05:25.700 --> 00:05:27.020 for the so-called students, 108 00:05:27.020 --> 00:05:29.620 it's just a sandbox courses 109 00:05:29.620 --> 00:05:30.910 we call it for us to play in. 110 00:05:30.910 --> 00:05:32.670 And although my only students 111 00:05:32.670 --> 00:05:34.340 are my colleagues that never log in. 112 00:05:34.340 --> 00:05:36.490 So I do have, 113 00:05:36.490 --> 00:05:37.820 you know, in Blackboard, 114 00:05:37.820 --> 00:05:40.670 I don't know if anybody is aware of this 115 00:05:40.670 --> 00:05:44.060 but you can make your own student account 116 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.433 so that at any time you can log in as a student, 117 00:05:50.500 --> 00:05:52.520 well, it's not really logging in. 118 00:05:52.520 --> 00:05:56.400 You simply click this button over here per student preview 119 00:05:56.400 --> 00:05:59.520 and it puts you into this new mode 120 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:01.860 called student preview mode 121 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:06.760 and then interesting that I can still see my control panel. 122 00:06:06.760 --> 00:06:07.760 That shouldn't be there 123 00:06:07.760 --> 00:06:10.740 but let me just refresh for a second. 124 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:11.690 Okay, that's weird. 125 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.200 Usually you don't see this 126 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:18.340 but it allows you to go in and try things out. 127 00:06:18.340 --> 00:06:23.080 Now, bear in mind that when you put up a test in your course 128 00:06:23.080 --> 00:06:25.440 if you go in as a student, 129 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:29.570 a fake student to take the test and answer the questions, 130 00:06:29.570 --> 00:06:32.730 you do have to make it available. 131 00:06:32.730 --> 00:06:37.500 And if you have students already in your class 132 00:06:37.500 --> 00:06:38.860 they can see it, 133 00:06:38.860 --> 00:06:40.940 but you can always turn 134 00:06:40.940 --> 00:06:42.670 your course off for a little while 135 00:06:42.670 --> 00:06:45.870 and I'm gonna ask is, does anybody remember how 136 00:06:45.870 --> 00:06:49.300 or not remember how to turn your course 137 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:52.223 basically to open it and close it to students? 138 00:06:54.130 --> 00:06:57.380 When you start out your course isn't available 139 00:06:57.380 --> 00:07:00.420 then right beforehand, you have to make it available. 140 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:02.470 So if anybody just raise your hand, 141 00:07:02.470 --> 00:07:04.963 if you want to refresh her and doing that. 142 00:07:06.430 --> 00:07:07.890 But the student preview mode, 143 00:07:07.890 --> 00:07:09.623 I'm just gonna exit it now. 144 00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:13.323 Go back to where the tests are. 145 00:07:14.740 --> 00:07:16.950 So down here, under course tools 146 00:07:16.950 --> 00:07:19.803 test surveys and pools and tests. 147 00:07:21.140 --> 00:07:24.620 So if I want to start to build a new test 148 00:07:24.620 --> 00:07:27.510 what I would do is I click build test, 149 00:07:27.510 --> 00:07:30.940 and first window I just have to give it a name. 150 00:07:30.940 --> 00:07:33.950 So I'm gonna give it a name of 151 00:07:36.313 --> 00:07:37.146 AA 152 00:07:38.740 --> 00:07:42.363 only so it floats to the top of my long list. 153 00:07:44.032 --> 00:07:45.253 I'm showing, 154 00:07:53.110 --> 00:07:56.380 and all I'm doing right now is just naming it 155 00:07:56.380 --> 00:08:01.233 and then shows you that now you're on this Canvas. 156 00:08:02.950 --> 00:08:05.976 And so that Canvas is basically a blank Canvas 157 00:08:05.976 --> 00:08:08.920 where you can start to build your questions. 158 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.950 And there are different ways, 159 00:08:10.950 --> 00:08:13.360 different types of questions you can create, 160 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.430 and also different ways of doing it. 161 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:19.700 Mainly if you did them one by one manually 162 00:08:19.700 --> 00:08:21.870 you would go over here or say, 163 00:08:21.870 --> 00:08:24.220 you have a bunch of questions on your test already, 164 00:08:24.220 --> 00:08:26.330 but you want to add one more. 165 00:08:26.330 --> 00:08:28.177 You just go here to create question 166 00:08:28.177 --> 00:08:30.770 and you can choose the question type 167 00:08:30.770 --> 00:08:33.280 and then you can see this list. 168 00:08:33.280 --> 00:08:38.280 I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit on my screen. 169 00:08:42.970 --> 00:08:44.600 Most common often, 170 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:47.270 I mean, generally speaking is multiple choice. 171 00:08:47.270 --> 00:08:49.560 So I'm gonna try that. 172 00:08:49.560 --> 00:08:52.023 So it's saying create multiple choice question. 173 00:08:54.460 --> 00:08:56.670 Now in anything in Blackboard 174 00:08:56.670 --> 00:08:58.640 that the little orange asterisk 175 00:08:58.640 --> 00:09:01.300 indicates that it's a required field. 176 00:09:01.300 --> 00:09:02.600 And you'll notice that the title 177 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:05.160 isn't really required that's because 178 00:09:05.160 --> 00:09:09.860 in Blackboard the question itself is the better way 179 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:12.800 to just find your questions later 180 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:14.430 is to just look at the question 181 00:09:14.430 --> 00:09:16.670 rather than trying to name the question. 182 00:09:16.670 --> 00:09:18.930 And that would, this is just for your own purposes 183 00:09:18.930 --> 00:09:20.507 but you don't need to do it. 184 00:09:20.507 --> 00:09:21.826 The students wouldn't see it. 185 00:09:21.826 --> 00:09:25.470 So the question texts could be something like 186 00:09:25.470 --> 00:09:29.663 who is the current president of US? 187 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.940 Okay, so I'm putting my question 188 00:09:34.940 --> 00:09:37.800 in the debt question text box 189 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:41.630 then I scroll down and I can see these different options. 190 00:09:41.630 --> 00:09:44.290 Do I want to have the answers numbered? 191 00:09:44.290 --> 00:09:45.123 Yeah, sure. 192 00:09:45.123 --> 00:09:50.123 I'll put them as lowercase letters, 193 00:09:50.180 --> 00:09:51.210 whatever I choose. 194 00:09:51.210 --> 00:09:52.420 I like vertical 195 00:09:54.610 --> 00:09:57.050 and I'm not allowing partial credit. 196 00:09:57.050 --> 00:09:58.930 Yeah, sure, I'd like to show 197 00:09:58.930 --> 00:10:00.760 the answers in random order. 198 00:10:00.760 --> 00:10:01.593 That means, 199 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:05.780 if I'm taking the test 200 00:10:07.099 --> 00:10:10.893 and my friend and I are both looking at the same question, 201 00:10:12.221 --> 00:10:16.470 if I just say it's answer A and they put in A 202 00:10:16.470 --> 00:10:18.840 their answer A is gonna be different from my answer A. 203 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:20.890 It's just jumbling the answers. 204 00:10:20.890 --> 00:10:24.230 So again, makes collusion a little more, 205 00:10:24.230 --> 00:10:26.530 it's a little bit of a detriment there. 206 00:10:26.530 --> 00:10:30.870 So you notice that this answer one has, 207 00:10:30.870 --> 00:10:33.303 is highlighted here where it says, correct. 208 00:10:34.230 --> 00:10:36.960 And this is where you can edit 209 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:38.900 and remove your different answers. 210 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:41.503 Answer two is not highlighted. 211 00:10:46.062 --> 00:10:47.587 If I didn't want to randomize, 212 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:50.850 I would have to go in here 213 00:10:50.850 --> 00:10:55.850 and make sure that when I put in my answers 214 00:10:56.800 --> 00:11:00.090 that I do put the correct one in the right place. 215 00:11:00.090 --> 00:11:02.400 So say this first one 216 00:11:24.020 --> 00:11:25.400 I can then remember to, 217 00:11:25.400 --> 00:11:28.800 I have to click that because that is the correct one 218 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:31.550 and the other ones are now incorrect. 219 00:11:31.550 --> 00:11:32.623 And I could say, 220 00:11:34.580 --> 00:11:36.710 okay, so I've got four answers 221 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:40.210 and you don't have to only have four answers. 222 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:42.530 You can change that number up here 223 00:11:42.530 --> 00:11:44.710 to goodness gracious is, 224 00:11:44.710 --> 00:11:46.600 you can keep on going forever, 225 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.590 but four is what the default is 226 00:11:49.590 --> 00:11:50.990 and you can just go ahead and change it 227 00:11:50.990 --> 00:11:53.343 if you prefer three or five or something. 228 00:11:54.560 --> 00:11:55.683 So now I have, 229 00:11:56.940 --> 00:12:00.140 manually I'd have to randomize 230 00:12:00.140 --> 00:12:03.000 where the correct one is on every question 231 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.050 but if I just always put the correct one 232 00:12:06.050 --> 00:12:09.840 in the top and left it highlighted 233 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:11.830 and chose randomized 234 00:12:11.830 --> 00:12:13.320 then I wouldn't have to worry about that. 235 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:14.890 If you know what I'm talking about, 236 00:12:14.890 --> 00:12:15.830 I can still do that 237 00:12:15.830 --> 00:12:18.480 but it was just randomized them for people. 238 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.520 So let me pause for a second and say 239 00:12:25.070 --> 00:12:28.740 does anything that I just said seem confusing 240 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:30.103 because I feel like 241 00:12:30.103 --> 00:12:33.180 I might've been a little confusing sounding just that. 242 00:12:34.153 --> 00:12:38.123 You know, as we do have a couple of questions. 243 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.500 First one is a little bit more broad. 244 00:12:42.500 --> 00:12:44.800 Is the test Canvas a special way 245 00:12:44.800 --> 00:12:47.970 of entering the formation of a test 246 00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:52.373 or is it the same as ordinary create test? 247 00:12:56.810 --> 00:12:57.643 It isn't 248 00:12:57.643 --> 00:13:00.840 It's the only place where you can put in the questions. 249 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:03.940 It's just like first you name the test 250 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:05.470 and then when you're done naming it 251 00:13:05.470 --> 00:13:07.320 it takes you to this Canvas 252 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.070 and all it is is the place where questions are created 253 00:13:11.070 --> 00:13:12.770 and or are pulled in 254 00:13:12.770 --> 00:13:13.740 and there are different ways, 255 00:13:13.740 --> 00:13:16.380 but it's every test only has one Canvas 256 00:13:16.380 --> 00:13:19.793 and all of them have a Canvas, it isn't special, 257 00:13:20.710 --> 00:13:24.270 but it's the place where you build questions. 258 00:13:24.270 --> 00:13:25.563 Does that make sense? 259 00:13:26.560 --> 00:13:29.000 And then there's one more. 260 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.210 Is there a way to make it default to five answers? 261 00:13:32.210 --> 00:13:33.750 In the past, I've had to change 262 00:13:33.750 --> 00:13:35.960 the dropdown from four to five answers 263 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.142 for every single question I create. 264 00:13:38.142 --> 00:13:39.680 Oh, that's a pain. 265 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:43.950 Let me see, you know, it may or may not remember 266 00:13:43.950 --> 00:13:47.133 but I'll put in a fifth answer here. 267 00:13:50.827 --> 00:13:52.690 I said, Justin Schimmel 268 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:01.190 If I were taking this test, 269 00:14:01.190 --> 00:14:02.903 I would choose that, right Justin? 270 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:05.510 All right, so that's my first question. 271 00:14:05.510 --> 00:14:07.500 Now I can just click submit 272 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:09.943 and create another and let's see what happens. 273 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:15.737 And now I'm on the next one. 274 00:14:18.820 --> 00:14:21.920 I see what you're saying, that's the pain. 275 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:24.620 Sometimes if you go up, 276 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:26.420 I'm not sure if this will work, 277 00:14:26.420 --> 00:14:30.580 but let me just clicks cancel 278 00:14:30.580 --> 00:14:33.203 cause I just have one question right now. 279 00:14:34.300 --> 00:14:36.600 So I canceled making a new one 280 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:38.490 but I wanna look at question settings 281 00:14:38.490 --> 00:14:43.490 and see if there's something there that I can change. 282 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.463 Nope, not seeing that. 283 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.160 But while we're on the settings page, 284 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:02.740 if images are something that you use 285 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:05.733 and you want students to. 286 00:15:11.330 --> 00:15:13.700 If you want students to be able to add images 287 00:15:13.700 --> 00:15:16.180 and files to their answers 288 00:15:16.180 --> 00:15:20.500 you can click that individual feedback is 289 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:22.230 yeah, I doubt anybody does that. 290 00:15:22.230 --> 00:15:25.430 But individual feedback means when you're grading it 291 00:15:26.973 --> 00:15:29.090 you could write feedback 292 00:15:29.090 --> 00:15:29.923 to the student 293 00:15:29.923 --> 00:15:31.523 on every single question. 294 00:15:32.560 --> 00:15:35.040 And that checkbox would say 295 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:36.980 you can also upload an image to it 296 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:40.360 but nobody does all of that, that I know of 297 00:15:42.400 --> 00:15:44.730 but it's available. 298 00:15:44.730 --> 00:15:47.333 And again, if anything that I'm, 299 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.070 I know there's a lot here 300 00:15:50.070 --> 00:15:53.820 and so bear in mind that, 301 00:15:53.820 --> 00:15:54.653 you know, 302 00:15:54.653 --> 00:15:56.850 these tools aren't like easy, 303 00:15:56.850 --> 00:15:58.940 this is like a demo. 304 00:15:58.940 --> 00:16:01.890 And when you go to build it, you might feel like 305 00:16:01.890 --> 00:16:04.720 you are still uncertain and have a lot of questions 306 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.937 and of course, contact the CTL and we'll work with you 307 00:16:07.937 --> 00:16:09.280 and we can make appointments 308 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:10.670 and walk you through it 309 00:16:10.670 --> 00:16:12.640 but this is just like a a demo 310 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:15.720 to get you familiar with basically how it works. 311 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.210 And you can either take off with it 312 00:16:18.210 --> 00:16:23.050 or you can set up an appointment for more guidance. 313 00:16:23.050 --> 00:16:26.400 So I have my one question on this test. 314 00:16:26.400 --> 00:16:28.000 And over here, you'll notice that 315 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.403 it's just then automatically given 10 points. 316 00:16:32.620 --> 00:16:37.250 And I may or may not want all my questions to be 10 points 317 00:16:37.250 --> 00:16:39.260 but I could go ahead and build up 318 00:16:39.260 --> 00:16:41.120 a whole bunch of questions, 319 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.040 just ignoring the points for now. 320 00:16:44.040 --> 00:16:45.770 And then afterwards, I can say 321 00:16:45.770 --> 00:16:49.230 I want all my questions to be worth two points. 322 00:16:49.230 --> 00:16:50.770 So what I would do is 323 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:55.320 go over here to select all, 324 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.073 like I could just select, 325 00:16:57.073 --> 00:16:58.700 I only have one question 326 00:16:58.700 --> 00:17:01.300 that means it's selected right now. 327 00:17:01.300 --> 00:17:03.380 But if I say select all, 328 00:17:03.380 --> 00:17:05.053 we'll select my whole list. 329 00:17:06.244 --> 00:17:07.940 And then I can say points 330 00:17:09.533 --> 00:17:12.250 I'll make every question be worth two points 331 00:17:12.250 --> 00:17:13.393 and then update. 332 00:17:14.990 --> 00:17:17.317 And now I have two over here 333 00:17:17.317 --> 00:17:20.130 and it would apply to all questions that I have. 334 00:17:20.130 --> 00:17:21.380 And then if there was one 335 00:17:21.380 --> 00:17:24.070 that I wanted to be worth more 336 00:17:24.070 --> 00:17:26.710 like except for that one question, 337 00:17:26.710 --> 00:17:28.470 which is an essay 338 00:17:28.470 --> 00:17:30.700 maybe I wanna make that be worth 10 339 00:17:30.700 --> 00:17:33.710 and then I can go scroll down and see them all. 340 00:17:33.710 --> 00:17:36.087 And let me show you what a test with more questions 341 00:17:36.087 --> 00:17:37.283 and it looks like, 342 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.300 but I can individually change points 343 00:17:40.300 --> 00:17:41.660 on any question 344 00:17:41.660 --> 00:17:46.070 after changing the bulk of them by doing select all. 345 00:17:46.070 --> 00:17:49.180 So I'm gonna go back to tests. 346 00:17:49.180 --> 00:17:51.373 It shows my list of all of my tests. 347 00:18:03.054 --> 00:18:05.721 I'm not sure what's in this one, 348 00:18:07.780 --> 00:18:09.203 13 questions. 349 00:18:10.050 --> 00:18:11.530 Oh look, that's a theme, 350 00:18:11.530 --> 00:18:13.600 but this is the first president. 351 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:18.563 So you'll notice that the default is 10 here on the points 352 00:18:19.600 --> 00:18:24.330 and I have multiple answer questions in some cases 353 00:18:24.330 --> 00:18:26.960 where students can select 354 00:18:28.430 --> 00:18:30.060 one of these would be correct. 355 00:18:30.060 --> 00:18:33.240 And hopefully they would choose all of them 356 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:35.913 which they couldn't do in a multiple answer question. 357 00:18:39.370 --> 00:18:42.823 And I'm also, I've got a true or false question. 358 00:18:44.570 --> 00:18:47.640 If you have interest in another question type 359 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.420 just give a shout out right now 360 00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:51.530 and I can show you what it looks like 361 00:18:51.530 --> 00:18:54.233 to build something other than multiple choice. 362 00:18:58.170 --> 00:19:00.723 And again, these are the question types. 363 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.073 So I'm not hearing from anybody but. 364 00:19:14.420 --> 00:19:16.310 Once all your questions are created 365 00:19:17.840 --> 00:19:22.530 right now this says it's a total of 130 points. 366 00:19:22.530 --> 00:19:26.760 Really Blackboard will grade this up based on a percentage. 367 00:19:26.760 --> 00:19:29.950 So if somebody gets all of them correct 368 00:19:29.950 --> 00:19:32.010 they get 100 on the test. 369 00:19:32.010 --> 00:19:35.270 It doesn't really matter what the points are 370 00:19:35.270 --> 00:19:37.250 but what is valuable about the points, 371 00:19:37.250 --> 00:19:39.540 If I say select all 372 00:19:39.540 --> 00:19:43.260 and I go ahead and change the points to two, 373 00:19:43.260 --> 00:19:44.563 and then I update it. 374 00:19:46.004 --> 00:19:48.570 And now they're all two, you can see over here. 375 00:19:48.570 --> 00:19:51.400 And then maybe I wanna take one of them. 376 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.923 Do I have an essay question here? Maybe not. 377 00:19:57.800 --> 00:20:01.240 So let's say I want this one to be worth five. 378 00:20:04.100 --> 00:20:06.660 Then I just enter a five and I click submit. 379 00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:09.140 So everything else is worth two. 380 00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:11.690 And then let's just see what our points add up to 29. 381 00:20:11.690 --> 00:20:14.580 So it's a little odd, but it doesn't matter 382 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:17.960 cause Blackboard will still say they got all 29 right, 383 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:22.183 they got 100 on it and it will figure it out for you. 384 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:24.833 Now, 385 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:28.033 questions so far. 386 00:20:30.310 --> 00:20:31.903 Does anybody want to take? 387 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:33.800 Ines. 388 00:20:33.800 --> 00:20:35.330 Yeah, sure, go ahead. 389 00:20:35.330 --> 00:20:38.760 I just wanted to know if there was a recommendation 390 00:20:38.760 --> 00:20:41.530 from CTL about 391 00:20:41.530 --> 00:20:43.860 how many questions 392 00:20:43.860 --> 00:20:48.793 are suitable for a 50 minute versus a 75 minute class. 393 00:20:49.800 --> 00:20:53.120 I'm just sort of thinking about this logistically 394 00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:54.973 they will do this on their own. 395 00:20:58.779 --> 00:21:00.090 So you give them the time, 396 00:21:00.090 --> 00:21:03.053 you make it available for that time. 397 00:21:04.950 --> 00:21:09.010 I have a pretty good sense of how to do this in class 398 00:21:11.170 --> 00:21:14.870 and how many questions are about right, 399 00:21:14.870 --> 00:21:17.460 for a certain period of time, 400 00:21:17.460 --> 00:21:19.900 but not having done this electronically 401 00:21:19.900 --> 00:21:21.963 I'm less sure of that. 402 00:21:21.963 --> 00:21:23.450 Less sure about that. 403 00:21:23.450 --> 00:21:25.000 Well, what I would say is 404 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:28.803 whatever time you would give in class, 405 00:21:29.850 --> 00:21:34.010 add maybe 15 minutes or something, 406 00:21:34.010 --> 00:21:36.853 just in case there were problems. 407 00:21:38.840 --> 00:21:41.500 If normally your class, 408 00:21:41.500 --> 00:21:43.050 if people come in and sit down 409 00:21:43.050 --> 00:21:45.350 and they take an hour to do a test, 410 00:21:45.350 --> 00:21:47.520 you could think of it the same way. 411 00:21:47.520 --> 00:21:48.980 It's a 60 minute test, 412 00:21:48.980 --> 00:21:51.510 but just add on 10 minutes or something 413 00:21:51.510 --> 00:21:55.800 to give them a little extra time 414 00:21:55.800 --> 00:21:57.250 in case they have problem, 415 00:21:57.250 --> 00:22:00.000 they have to restart their computer or something. 416 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.053 But it's not different really. 417 00:22:04.090 --> 00:22:05.053 I don't think, 418 00:22:06.420 --> 00:22:09.240 but we don't have a necessarily a recommendation 419 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:11.170 for the number of questions, no, 420 00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:13.057 that'd be based on your content 421 00:22:13.057 --> 00:22:14.770 and the kinds of questions, of course. 422 00:22:14.770 --> 00:22:17.963 If they essays, they're gonna take longer, so. 423 00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:22.283 I might ask some colleagues what their experiences. 424 00:22:23.370 --> 00:22:25.950 Do you have an estimate of how many people on campus 425 00:22:25.950 --> 00:22:27.723 are using Blackboard testing? 426 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:30.620 Is it widespread? 427 00:22:30.620 --> 00:22:32.330 Yes, it's widespread. 428 00:22:32.330 --> 00:22:35.480 And you know, on the CTL website 429 00:22:37.450 --> 00:22:42.450 we have a link to our CTL faculty associates. 430 00:22:42.650 --> 00:22:46.410 We have a whole bunch of faculty 431 00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:50.490 who are working part time for the CTL, 432 00:22:50.490 --> 00:22:55.490 and they are available for consults 433 00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:58.840 about all kinds of things 434 00:23:00.850 --> 00:23:03.070 Down here at this, so this is the homepage. 435 00:23:03.070 --> 00:23:05.350 If we go to new faculty associates 436 00:23:06.740 --> 00:23:09.650 it takes you to this list of everybody 437 00:23:09.650 --> 00:23:11.970 and kind of what they're doing. 438 00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:16.970 And you can choose one of them to, you know, contact 439 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:21.490 they're all available for consults. 440 00:23:21.490 --> 00:23:25.770 And so the student are well socialized 441 00:23:25.770 --> 00:23:27.980 into this format already. 442 00:23:27.980 --> 00:23:29.910 You don't really have to talk to them 443 00:23:29.910 --> 00:23:31.830 about how to do this, or? 444 00:23:31.830 --> 00:23:34.520 I mean it's possible that you could have students 445 00:23:34.520 --> 00:23:38.540 that somehow randomly I've just never encountered it 446 00:23:38.540 --> 00:23:40.830 because they've only had teachers that didn't use it. 447 00:23:40.830 --> 00:23:43.170 But for the most part, 448 00:23:43.170 --> 00:23:47.670 people you have been using it even before the pandemic 449 00:23:47.670 --> 00:23:52.070 but especially after a lot of people are using it. 450 00:23:52.070 --> 00:23:56.950 So I would, and students aren't, 451 00:23:56.950 --> 00:23:59.450 you know, it's not very hard when to log in 452 00:23:59.450 --> 00:24:01.510 and take a test in Blackboard. 453 00:24:01.510 --> 00:24:03.143 It's pretty intuitive, 454 00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:09.750 but I'm gonna move on to the deploying part now, 455 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.680 unless there are any other questions 456 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.603 so that I can show you how to set up your test. 457 00:24:18.470 --> 00:24:22.053 And the other thing I wanted to, excuse me, 458 00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:30.380 show you is if you go to the UVM knowledge base 459 00:24:30.570 --> 00:24:32.250 and the address is up here 460 00:24:32.250 --> 00:24:37.250 it's uvm.edu/it/KB for knowledge base, 461 00:24:43.100 --> 00:24:47.023 it is also linked all over the place from our website. 462 00:24:48.140 --> 00:24:51.620 We write the articles are related to Blackboard. 463 00:24:51.620 --> 00:24:56.230 So they're basically what used to be the CTL, how to page. 464 00:24:56.230 --> 00:25:00.350 We moved everything here to have it all centrally located. 465 00:25:00.350 --> 00:25:02.570 If I just put it in the search term test 466 00:25:04.350 --> 00:25:08.930 it's got a good search capability 467 00:25:08.930 --> 00:25:11.343 and I'm just gonna click tests and surveys. 468 00:25:12.230 --> 00:25:17.230 And on this page, you can see a table of contents over here. 469 00:25:18.310 --> 00:25:23.310 And you can just to go over some of these things. 470 00:25:23.700 --> 00:25:25.880 If you have a test from another course 471 00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:27.330 that you want to import 472 00:25:27.330 --> 00:25:30.730 like maybe a different faculty member or anything, 473 00:25:30.730 --> 00:25:32.020 someone can share a test with you. 474 00:25:32.020 --> 00:25:34.603 You can just import an entire test, 475 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:39.870 excuse me, I'm gonna mute for a second. 476 00:25:45.830 --> 00:25:46.663 All right. 477 00:25:48.550 --> 00:25:50.490 And you can create a new test 478 00:25:50.490 --> 00:25:51.780 this just different directions 479 00:25:51.780 --> 00:25:53.830 but the big one right here 480 00:25:53.830 --> 00:25:55.933 is imported from a word document. 481 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:04.400 And basically it says that the information, 482 00:26:06.118 --> 00:26:09.100 those converters that I was talking about 483 00:26:09.100 --> 00:26:10.823 are linked on this page. 484 00:26:13.780 --> 00:26:17.130 And so importing test questions for the Word document 485 00:26:17.130 --> 00:26:19.380 and there are these two tools. 486 00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:24.100 And I recommend the Oklahoma Christian University one 487 00:26:24.100 --> 00:26:28.570 because somebody had a problem with this one recently. 488 00:26:28.570 --> 00:26:30.060 I didn't find a problem with it, 489 00:26:30.060 --> 00:26:31.830 but they're both a little different 490 00:26:31.830 --> 00:26:34.670 in what they require for formatting. 491 00:26:34.670 --> 00:26:35.817 And I'll just click on it 492 00:26:35.817 --> 00:26:37.470 and it takes you to their website, 493 00:26:37.470 --> 00:26:38.963 but anyone can use this. 494 00:26:40.560 --> 00:26:45.030 And it has some basic information. 495 00:26:45.030 --> 00:26:47.980 It's also got this little help question here 496 00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:52.470 for detailed instructions, like how to build questions 497 00:26:52.470 --> 00:26:56.130 which I'm not gonna go into too deeply right there 498 00:26:56.130 --> 00:26:59.070 but you can create a sample question here 499 00:26:59.070 --> 00:27:01.560 by choosing the question type. 500 00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:04.153 These are the only types this generator will make. 501 00:27:05.030 --> 00:27:06.330 And you can say, okay 502 00:27:06.330 --> 00:27:09.430 just create a multiple choice question. 503 00:27:09.430 --> 00:27:12.600 So which of the following is a prime number? 504 00:27:12.600 --> 00:27:14.030 and you'll notice that 505 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.023 I'm gonna zoom in a little so it's easier to see. 506 00:27:22.080 --> 00:27:24.720 The first question number is just, 507 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:26.800 everything is flush left all the way. 508 00:27:26.800 --> 00:27:29.570 There are no indents, there are no spaces. 509 00:27:29.570 --> 00:27:30.770 You have a number, 510 00:27:30.770 --> 00:27:33.810 everything has to be numbered, 1, 2, 3, every question. 511 00:27:33.810 --> 00:27:37.070 And then there's a number, period, space. 512 00:27:37.070 --> 00:27:38.900 Your question on one line. 513 00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:41.660 I mean the question can be long enough 514 00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:42.840 to be a whole paragraph 515 00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:44.990 but you can't like hit return 516 00:27:44.990 --> 00:27:48.060 and make a different line and make it complicated. 517 00:27:48.060 --> 00:27:51.720 Everything has to be sort of in one block. 518 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:56.410 And then the answers follow 519 00:27:56.410 --> 00:27:59.530 with the correct answer being 520 00:27:59.530 --> 00:28:01.710 with the asterisk in front of it. 521 00:28:01.710 --> 00:28:05.923 And they have to have a parentheses right after it. 522 00:28:08.450 --> 00:28:11.750 So that's the multiple choice. 523 00:28:11.750 --> 00:28:12.880 And if I click it again 524 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:15.330 it's just gonna create another one 525 00:28:15.330 --> 00:28:18.710 but it shows you that now there's a space. 526 00:28:18.710 --> 00:28:20.730 I'm gonna change that to two. 527 00:28:20.730 --> 00:28:24.130 And there's one space between questions. 528 00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:25.560 Everything is flush left. 529 00:28:25.560 --> 00:28:28.520 If I choose multiple answer 530 00:28:28.520 --> 00:28:31.433 I could say, okay, oops, it jumps down. 531 00:28:32.410 --> 00:28:36.700 And so I couldn't change that 532 00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:39.660 to question number three, blah, blah, blah. 533 00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:41.550 Everything's flush left, 534 00:28:41.550 --> 00:28:44.400 asterisks in front of the correct ones. 535 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:49.370 When I'm all done, say these are my own questions 536 00:28:49.370 --> 00:28:51.230 that I brought in from Word. 537 00:28:51.230 --> 00:28:55.530 And I recommend actually doing it in word first 538 00:28:55.530 --> 00:28:56.930 before you paste them in here. 539 00:28:56.930 --> 00:28:59.070 So you're in your Word document 540 00:28:59.070 --> 00:29:00.910 and you do this editing where 541 00:29:01.900 --> 00:29:06.210 there are no spaces between the answers. 542 00:29:06.210 --> 00:29:07.960 Everything is flush left. 543 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.610 You arrange this, make sure you've only got one space. 544 00:29:11.610 --> 00:29:14.430 Now watch what happens if I make an extra space there 545 00:29:15.490 --> 00:29:19.590 and then I say, generate test questions. 546 00:29:19.590 --> 00:29:21.670 It might throw an error. 547 00:29:21.670 --> 00:29:22.580 Oh it didn't. 548 00:29:22.580 --> 00:29:24.930 So that seems okay. 549 00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:26.543 What if I did something like, 550 00:29:28.610 --> 00:29:31.450 so basically it's giving me a green light. 551 00:29:31.450 --> 00:29:32.283 Everything's green. 552 00:29:32.283 --> 00:29:35.490 If there was a problem with one of these, 553 00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:37.330 I wonder if I can go back. 554 00:29:37.330 --> 00:29:39.880 Yes. So how could I make a problem? 555 00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:43.350 Say, my first one doesn't have a correct answer on it. 556 00:29:43.350 --> 00:29:45.730 Now, if I go ahead and generate them 557 00:29:47.280 --> 00:29:48.410 you can see you have red. 558 00:29:48.410 --> 00:29:50.200 One of them is a problem 559 00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:52.663 and you have to look at it and then correct it. 560 00:29:55.270 --> 00:29:58.460 So these are just examples to show you how to 561 00:29:58.460 --> 00:30:00.913 but then you can paste in your own. 562 00:30:02.310 --> 00:30:06.810 And once you're done, you can say generate test questions. 563 00:30:06.810 --> 00:30:08.980 They should all be green now. Okay. 564 00:30:08.980 --> 00:30:11.670 So they're all green, looking good. 565 00:30:11.670 --> 00:30:14.140 Now you say, you download it. 566 00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:16.010 You can either download it as a pool 567 00:30:16.010 --> 00:30:18.220 which you can upload into your pools, 568 00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:21.370 or you can just download it this way, 569 00:30:21.370 --> 00:30:23.540 it's downloading here. 570 00:30:23.540 --> 00:30:28.540 And it is blackboardquiz.txt that I've downloaded. 571 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:33.000 I just have things dropped into my text box, 572 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.393 I mean, onto my desktop. 573 00:30:35.670 --> 00:30:37.530 Text box, I don't know where that came from. 574 00:30:37.530 --> 00:30:38.450 But anyway, 575 00:30:38.450 --> 00:30:43.070 let's say I'm looking at this exam one, 576 00:30:43.070 --> 00:30:45.480 I wanna add those questions to it. 577 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:47.673 Let's say, upload questions. 578 00:30:49.690 --> 00:30:51.610 Or I could just give this on a blank Canvas, 579 00:30:51.610 --> 00:30:54.430 I don't need to be adding them to a new one. 580 00:30:54.430 --> 00:30:56.090 I'm gonna browse. 581 00:30:56.090 --> 00:30:57.463 Look at my desktop, 582 00:30:58.590 --> 00:30:59.550 there it is 583 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:04.063 and then submit. 584 00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:09.443 And then, let's see if they're added to the bottom here. 585 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:17.890 Yes, so I have two of the identical ones, 586 00:31:17.890 --> 00:31:20.830 one you know, multiple answer. 587 00:31:20.830 --> 00:31:23.610 So notice they came in with 10 points. 588 00:31:23.610 --> 00:31:26.190 So you have to be careful, you know, 589 00:31:26.190 --> 00:31:27.040 as you're building your test 590 00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:31.190 to make sure your points are correct. 591 00:31:31.190 --> 00:31:32.150 And then you can look up here 592 00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:35.470 and say yes I have 16 questions. 593 00:31:35.470 --> 00:31:38.190 The other thing you can do when you like, 594 00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:40.020 and again you can consult with us 595 00:31:40.020 --> 00:31:41.280 more about doing this 596 00:31:41.280 --> 00:31:42.960 and read about it on the knowledge base 597 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.950 but you can create questions sets 598 00:31:45.950 --> 00:31:48.380 which allow you to either 599 00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:49.610 when you're doing your, 600 00:31:49.610 --> 00:31:51.970 say you've given quizzes every week 601 00:31:51.970 --> 00:31:53.830 and they're in Blackboard 602 00:31:53.830 --> 00:31:56.400 and a quiz is the same thing as a test, 603 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.280 it's just lower stakes. 604 00:31:58.280 --> 00:32:00.180 And so you can call them quizzes. 605 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:02.200 You can have all your quizzes 606 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.010 in Blackboard with the date and quiz. 607 00:32:04.010 --> 00:32:09.010 And then, you can make a final exam 608 00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:14.690 which could draw a few questions from each quiz 609 00:32:16.227 --> 00:32:18.600 and add your own extra ones. 610 00:32:18.600 --> 00:32:20.543 But if you did want to do that, 611 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.670 I would say you would go to reuse question, 612 00:32:24.670 --> 00:32:26.850 create a question set 613 00:32:26.850 --> 00:32:27.980 and then you could say, 614 00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:29.950 look at some of my old tests 615 00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.900 that I've already given. 616 00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:35.980 I wanna get some questions 617 00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:40.143 from these different chapters. 618 00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.930 Notice they're kind of ordered late 619 00:32:44.930 --> 00:32:47.610 because it's doing this. 620 00:32:47.610 --> 00:32:51.960 Did sort of numeric things, one is, 1 and 1,1. 621 00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.823 So anyway, so then I want chapter 2, chapter 3. 622 00:32:56.020 --> 00:32:59.543 I want some questions from all of those, 623 00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:05.490 I'm going to, maybe I'll just make it one chapter. 624 00:33:08.570 --> 00:33:11.840 Shows you what questions you've chosen 625 00:33:11.840 --> 00:33:14.383 for that bank of questions that you had. 626 00:33:16.570 --> 00:33:21.570 And you can say you're adding them basically. 627 00:33:24.850 --> 00:33:25.683 What does it say? 628 00:33:25.683 --> 00:33:26.790 They're calling it the cart 629 00:33:26.790 --> 00:33:29.513 like a shopping cart or something. 630 00:33:29.513 --> 00:33:32.190 You're getting all of these questions. 631 00:33:32.190 --> 00:33:37.190 And if you look on page 2, they're not selected 632 00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:39.593 so you have to select those. 633 00:33:40.550 --> 00:33:42.840 So they should both, now they're all selected 634 00:33:43.730 --> 00:33:46.883 and click submit. 635 00:33:47.890 --> 00:33:49.520 But it's a question set, 636 00:33:49.520 --> 00:33:53.200 so I came down to the very bottom 637 00:33:55.130 --> 00:33:59.470 and here it is, the question set. 638 00:33:59.470 --> 00:34:00.730 I could have renamed it 639 00:34:00.730 --> 00:34:04.020 to be called chapter 1 question set 640 00:34:04.020 --> 00:34:08.340 and there are 33 questions in that whole block 641 00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:11.933 but I only want students to see five. 642 00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.680 So I can change that number 643 00:34:15.680 --> 00:34:18.620 by going here and clicking five. 644 00:34:18.620 --> 00:34:20.910 So when students take this test, 645 00:34:20.910 --> 00:34:24.120 they're gonna get five questions from chapter 1. 646 00:34:24.120 --> 00:34:26.070 And I should have named that chapter 1 647 00:34:26.070 --> 00:34:27.763 to make it easy to identify. 648 00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:33.340 And then you can do that with every single chapter 649 00:34:33.340 --> 00:34:35.430 and say I want five from chapter 2, 650 00:34:35.430 --> 00:34:37.360 I want five from chapter 3 651 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:39.610 and keep adding questions sets 652 00:34:39.610 --> 00:34:44.610 so that students will then randomly get any five 653 00:34:44.690 --> 00:34:47.200 from whatever you put in your cart. 654 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:48.320 You don't have to put all of them, 655 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:50.493 you can just select the ones you want. 656 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.890 And this shows you, which questions are in there. 657 00:34:54.890 --> 00:34:58.720 And if you don't want some of them afterwards, 658 00:34:58.720 --> 00:35:01.973 you can just click here and say, remove those. 659 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:04.850 I'll do one. 660 00:35:04.850 --> 00:35:09.490 So now you'll see that it goes from 33 to 31. 661 00:35:09.490 --> 00:35:14.490 And so this is how you can modify the randomness 662 00:35:16.785 --> 00:35:19.140 of what students are seeing when they take tests. 663 00:35:19.140 --> 00:35:22.700 But anyway, I don't digress because that's important 664 00:35:22.700 --> 00:35:26.490 but I wanted to show you now how to deploy your test. 665 00:35:26.490 --> 00:35:30.360 So I'm going to go to, and in this case, 666 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:33.080 I just throwing everything in course materials. 667 00:35:33.080 --> 00:35:35.900 You can make a content area 668 00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:38.593 to turn my toggle, to edit mode on. 669 00:35:40.250 --> 00:35:43.750 You can add a content area if you want 670 00:35:43.750 --> 00:35:47.140 and call it exams and submit. 671 00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:52.300 And it's down here. 672 00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:54.820 And I would like it actually 673 00:35:54.820 --> 00:35:56.430 not be at the bottom of my list 674 00:35:56.430 --> 00:36:00.390 but instead, maybe right there under tools 675 00:36:01.330 --> 00:36:04.497 and the other like active tools in Blackboard 676 00:36:04.497 --> 00:36:07.650 and the rest of these are more resources 677 00:36:07.650 --> 00:36:08.950 although that is more of a tool. 678 00:36:08.950 --> 00:36:09.783 But anyway, 679 00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:13.740 so I go to exams 680 00:36:14.700 --> 00:36:17.450 and it's an empty content area. 681 00:36:17.450 --> 00:36:21.253 I go to assessments and I choose test. 682 00:36:22.640 --> 00:36:26.150 And which test here is asking me do I want 683 00:36:26.150 --> 00:36:27.810 from all of my tests, 684 00:36:27.810 --> 00:36:31.743 I'm gonna say exam one and click submit. 685 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.960 And this test options page I wanted to, 686 00:36:38.420 --> 00:36:42.230 this is the important series of questions 687 00:36:42.230 --> 00:36:47.230 that you answer that decide how all kinds of features 688 00:36:47.540 --> 00:36:49.730 of students taking this test. 689 00:36:49.730 --> 00:36:51.293 Does someone have a question? 690 00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:59.450 I'm going to go back to that knowledge based article 691 00:37:01.540 --> 00:37:02.590 and show you 692 00:37:06.283 --> 00:37:09.470 when to go to, I bookmarked the knowledge based 693 00:37:09.470 --> 00:37:12.400 on my toolbar up here, 694 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:16.610 you can, whoops, put a Blackboard 695 00:37:16.610 --> 00:37:18.490 tests and surveys. 696 00:37:18.490 --> 00:37:23.490 And over here you can see deploy the test. 697 00:37:23.660 --> 00:37:25.150 So step one is important. 698 00:37:25.150 --> 00:37:27.470 Create a test and add questions. 699 00:37:27.470 --> 00:37:28.883 Step two is deploy it. 700 00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:34.720 And so I want to show you 701 00:37:35.980 --> 00:37:40.070 this page here, is a page I did up. 702 00:37:40.070 --> 00:37:44.327 It's an image that shows the exact same window, 703 00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:50.980 that this is the active Blackboard window 704 00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:53.240 for test options that I can change. 705 00:37:53.240 --> 00:37:56.810 This is an image that I made that shows 706 00:37:56.810 --> 00:38:00.513 what we recommend you choosing on these options. 707 00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:05.850 So as we go through this, I'll explain. 708 00:38:10.648 --> 00:38:12.740 You do need a name for the test. 709 00:38:12.740 --> 00:38:14.540 You can change it there if you want. 710 00:38:15.710 --> 00:38:20.580 You do not need to have a content link description. 711 00:38:20.580 --> 00:38:21.737 Students will see exam one 712 00:38:21.737 --> 00:38:22.940 and they'll just click on it, 713 00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:24.440 you don't need to describe it. 714 00:38:25.350 --> 00:38:28.570 Open test in new window that is up to you. 715 00:38:28.570 --> 00:38:32.780 And it doesn't really matter. 716 00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:34.740 It's just maybe a little cleaner 717 00:38:34.740 --> 00:38:37.120 than it within the Blackboard window 718 00:38:37.120 --> 00:38:39.220 with a menu there and everything. 719 00:38:39.220 --> 00:38:43.640 So I can choose yes 720 00:38:44.540 --> 00:38:46.850 but that's not that important. 721 00:38:46.850 --> 00:38:48.240 Make it available to students 722 00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:50.950 is really important right now. 723 00:38:50.950 --> 00:38:54.310 It's just gonna be not available no matter what we do. 724 00:38:54.310 --> 00:38:57.220 So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to click yes, 725 00:38:57.220 --> 00:39:02.130 but I'm gonna put a time constraint on it down below. 726 00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:05.053 And when we get there, I'll show you what I mean. 727 00:39:06.450 --> 00:39:08.080 Do you want there to be an announcement 728 00:39:08.080 --> 00:39:11.510 that goes out to students that the test has been added? 729 00:39:11.510 --> 00:39:13.140 I'm going to say no, 730 00:39:13.140 --> 00:39:15.460 because my students will know 731 00:39:15.460 --> 00:39:18.273 when the exam is happening. 732 00:39:19.490 --> 00:39:21.050 This might confuse them 733 00:39:21.050 --> 00:39:25.990 if it comes in their email, but you could. 734 00:39:25.990 --> 00:39:30.990 Multiple attempts is not likely to be chosen for an exam. 735 00:39:32.670 --> 00:39:36.550 What it could be chosen for is if you have quizzes 736 00:39:36.550 --> 00:39:39.140 that are really like practice tests 737 00:39:39.140 --> 00:39:41.370 and you can make practice tests 738 00:39:41.370 --> 00:39:44.780 that students can try to take again and again 739 00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:46.130 until they get it all right 740 00:39:46.130 --> 00:39:48.030 if that's what they want to do. 741 00:39:48.030 --> 00:39:52.010 You can even not include any of those results 742 00:39:52.010 --> 00:39:54.380 in the grade center calculation 743 00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:57.640 so that they're really just for students to study. 744 00:39:57.640 --> 00:40:00.713 But in this case, that's not what we're going to do. 745 00:40:03.230 --> 00:40:07.350 And forced completion is also not going to be chosen, 746 00:40:07.350 --> 00:40:11.160 I'll show you on this list here. 747 00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:13.230 This page forced completion 748 00:40:13.230 --> 00:40:15.630 we say, leave it unchecked. 749 00:40:15.630 --> 00:40:19.250 So students who lose their connection mid test 750 00:40:19.250 --> 00:40:23.640 if that happens, can reenter the test 751 00:40:23.640 --> 00:40:26.460 and continue where they left off. 752 00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:29.040 If you say forced completion, 753 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:33.050 it means that if they get bumped out of Blackboard, 754 00:40:33.050 --> 00:40:36.930 Blackboard considers the test done. 755 00:40:36.930 --> 00:40:40.690 If you then say the student had a technical problem 756 00:40:40.690 --> 00:40:44.030 I wanna let them take the test again. 757 00:40:44.030 --> 00:40:46.640 And you give it to them again, 758 00:40:46.640 --> 00:40:48.610 they have to start at the very beginning 759 00:40:48.610 --> 00:40:50.940 and answer all those questions again. 760 00:40:50.940 --> 00:40:52.313 So leave there unchecked. 761 00:40:53.640 --> 00:40:56.773 Set timer is something that usually people do do. 762 00:40:58.980 --> 00:41:00.300 It defaults to 60 763 00:41:00.300 --> 00:41:04.273 but you can change that time to anything you want. 764 00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:10.790 Auto submit means that when that time is up, 765 00:41:10.790 --> 00:41:13.116 Blackboard is just gonna close the test on them 766 00:41:13.116 --> 00:41:15.143 and save all their questions. 767 00:41:16.040 --> 00:41:20.810 And that can be actually a good thing sometimes 768 00:41:20.810 --> 00:41:23.440 because on rare occasions, 769 00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:27.690 students sometimes log out when they're all done 770 00:41:27.690 --> 00:41:29.440 and they've forgotten to submit it. 771 00:41:30.450 --> 00:41:32.410 Normally, if you feel like 60 minutes 772 00:41:32.410 --> 00:41:33.553 is what you would give for this exam 773 00:41:33.553 --> 00:41:35.360 because that's what you do 774 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:40.360 and you add on some extra time like wiggle room, 775 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.150 then you can go ahead and click auto submit. 776 00:41:44.150 --> 00:41:48.640 And when you have someone with accommodations request 777 00:41:48.640 --> 00:41:49.830 where they need time and a half, 778 00:41:49.830 --> 00:41:52.270 we'll deal with that down below. 779 00:41:52.270 --> 00:41:55.700 But right now, I'm gonna say set timer, 70 minutes 780 00:41:55.700 --> 00:41:59.113 auto submit on cause I've given some extra wiggle room. 781 00:42:01.390 --> 00:42:04.983 This is where you decide when students will take the test. 782 00:42:05.820 --> 00:42:10.170 So in fact, I don't want it to be available right now 783 00:42:10.170 --> 00:42:12.720 even though I chose yes up above. 784 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:14.400 You have to choose yes 785 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.730 and then you go here and you're gonna say 786 00:42:16.730 --> 00:42:18.713 I wanna make it available tomorrow, 787 00:42:19.610 --> 00:42:24.313 I'm gonna make it available at 9:00 AM. 788 00:42:25.410 --> 00:42:28.260 And then we always recommend that 789 00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:31.170 whenever you choose this top part in Blackboard 790 00:42:31.170 --> 00:42:34.707 that you also choose a display until. 791 00:42:34.707 --> 00:42:36.520 You can't just leave it open 792 00:42:36.520 --> 00:42:39.470 because sometimes Blackboard gets screwed up 793 00:42:39.470 --> 00:42:41.210 if you don't do that. 794 00:42:41.210 --> 00:42:44.170 So say it's also tomorrow, 795 00:42:44.170 --> 00:42:45.830 they're both the same day 796 00:42:46.810 --> 00:42:49.290 and I want it to be available. 797 00:42:49.290 --> 00:42:52.130 Now, available is not the same thing as the timer, 798 00:42:52.130 --> 00:42:57.130 available means that's when students see the link. 799 00:42:57.740 --> 00:43:00.153 If I chose 10:30, 800 00:43:02.180 --> 00:43:04.070 it's available for an hour and a half. 801 00:43:04.070 --> 00:43:07.370 If a student, for some reasons says to you 802 00:43:07.370 --> 00:43:11.270 I'm late because I don't know my internet went out 803 00:43:11.270 --> 00:43:13.600 and I couldn't take the test, 804 00:43:13.600 --> 00:43:17.930 I couldn't even start to log in until 9:30. 805 00:43:17.930 --> 00:43:19.160 They'll still see the link 806 00:43:19.160 --> 00:43:21.230 or maybe even 10:00 or 10:30. 807 00:43:21.230 --> 00:43:23.600 They're up until 10:30, they'll see that link 808 00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:25.980 and they'll have 70 minutes to do it. 809 00:43:25.980 --> 00:43:28.483 After 10:30, that link will disappear. 810 00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:31.580 But you can change that for one person, 811 00:43:31.580 --> 00:43:33.260 if they're sick or something 812 00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:35.010 and I'll show you where to do that. 813 00:43:37.250 --> 00:43:39.023 Password is not necessary. 814 00:43:41.420 --> 00:43:45.120 This is where you choose to either make it available 815 00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:48.420 to someone who said something like I just described 816 00:43:48.420 --> 00:43:52.050 or if you have someone with an accommodation requirement. 817 00:43:52.050 --> 00:43:55.380 So what you do is you click add user group, 818 00:43:55.380 --> 00:43:57.420 you see your list of students, 819 00:43:57.420 --> 00:43:59.983 you find who needs the accommodation. 820 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.713 I'm gonna just check one person and click submit. 821 00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:09.390 And here's, she just appears on this page 822 00:44:09.390 --> 00:44:11.600 and you can have a list of students here. 823 00:44:11.600 --> 00:44:12.960 And you can say, 824 00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.530 what kind of accommodation you want? 825 00:44:14.530 --> 00:44:16.750 Do you want her to be able to do it twice? 826 00:44:16.750 --> 00:44:18.730 Do you want her to have longer time? 827 00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:21.163 Yes, so I'm gonna say 105 minutes. 828 00:44:29.210 --> 00:44:31.730 Maybe I don't want it to auto submit at the end, 829 00:44:31.730 --> 00:44:34.200 just in case she has to go over, 830 00:44:34.200 --> 00:44:37.220 but you can leave that on also. 831 00:44:37.220 --> 00:44:38.680 And here's where you can say 832 00:44:39.620 --> 00:44:42.900 I do want it available later that day 833 00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:45.020 because whatever reason 834 00:44:46.350 --> 00:44:47.910 she couldn't do it in the morning 835 00:44:47.910 --> 00:44:49.370 and she contacted you and you said, 836 00:44:49.370 --> 00:44:50.910 okay you can take it at one o'clock 837 00:44:50.910 --> 00:44:53.600 and here's where you can change the date and time 838 00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:55.223 and do all that just for her. 839 00:44:56.740 --> 00:44:59.390 So that's where you do accommodations 840 00:44:59.390 --> 00:45:01.233 and each student has their own. 841 00:45:03.330 --> 00:45:08.253 And then here due date is fine to choose. 842 00:45:10.180 --> 00:45:13.470 It will show up in the student's Blackboard calendar. 843 00:45:13.470 --> 00:45:15.630 But I recommend that if you have other things 844 00:45:15.630 --> 00:45:17.820 your tools that you're using in a Blackboard 845 00:45:17.820 --> 00:45:19.240 like the assignment tool 846 00:45:19.240 --> 00:45:22.580 and other things that are due in Blackboard 847 00:45:22.580 --> 00:45:23.750 that you choose, 848 00:45:23.750 --> 00:45:24.970 if you're going to choose, 849 00:45:24.970 --> 00:45:26.220 if you're going to select this 850 00:45:26.220 --> 00:45:28.840 so that it appears in their calendar 851 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.130 then you wanna select it 852 00:45:31.130 --> 00:45:34.250 for everything you do in Blackboard 853 00:45:34.250 --> 00:45:37.080 so that their calendars are comprehensive 854 00:45:37.080 --> 00:45:38.080 and not just random. 855 00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:42.040 Well, a test was on my calendar 856 00:45:42.040 --> 00:45:43.740 but there were no quizzes on my calendar. 857 00:45:43.740 --> 00:45:46.010 So you need to use it consistently 858 00:45:46.010 --> 00:45:48.060 if you're gonna use it at all. 859 00:45:48.060 --> 00:45:52.800 So do not choose that 860 00:45:53.720 --> 00:45:55.420 because that screws things up 861 00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:57.830 for people with accommodations. 862 00:45:57.830 --> 00:46:00.040 But that is an option if you have a due date, 863 00:46:00.040 --> 00:46:00.960 you can choose that. 864 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:03.530 But let me say no on both of those, 865 00:46:03.530 --> 00:46:06.780 just up to you really for the due date. 866 00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:11.780 And then self self-assessment options. 867 00:46:11.857 --> 00:46:15.550 Basically, if this is just a practice test, 868 00:46:15.550 --> 00:46:17.403 you could choose that. 869 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:23.830 It can't be practice cause I have an essay question in it, 870 00:46:23.830 --> 00:46:26.033 which requires my grading. 871 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:29.833 I wanna go back. 872 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:32.150 Here we go, okay. 873 00:46:32.150 --> 00:46:37.150 And then show test results and feedback to students. 874 00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:41.210 This is also kind of important 875 00:46:41.210 --> 00:46:44.190 because you have a lot of options. 876 00:46:44.190 --> 00:46:46.930 This is why this page can be very helpful 877 00:46:46.930 --> 00:46:50.330 to help you understand some of these decisions 878 00:46:50.330 --> 00:46:53.683 and why we recommend what we do. 879 00:46:54.570 --> 00:46:56.950 So when the student has submitted the test 880 00:46:56.950 --> 00:46:59.960 after their 70 minutes are up, you could say, 881 00:46:59.960 --> 00:47:03.250 yes show them everything they got right, 882 00:47:03.250 --> 00:47:04.883 everything they submitted. 883 00:47:05.830 --> 00:47:09.040 Feedback means, like if there's automatic feedback 884 00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:11.650 on those questions, 885 00:47:11.650 --> 00:47:14.450 you can say, you know, 886 00:47:14.450 --> 00:47:16.210 on each question you can give feedback 887 00:47:16.210 --> 00:47:18.240 like correct or incorrect. 888 00:47:18.240 --> 00:47:20.030 You should go back and read the chapter again 889 00:47:20.030 --> 00:47:22.880 or you can do that manually on every question 890 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.380 that you have after your test is built 891 00:47:24.380 --> 00:47:26.970 but not many people take that time. 892 00:47:26.970 --> 00:47:29.900 But if they did, you could choose feedback 893 00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:33.760 and you could just say only show what they got wrong 894 00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:37.440 and instead unselect all of those. 895 00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.540 But people sometimes are worried 896 00:47:39.540 --> 00:47:43.183 about again collusion and sharing with each other. 897 00:47:45.200 --> 00:47:46.850 And sometimes they just say, 898 00:47:46.850 --> 00:47:51.850 don't show anything after submission 899 00:47:52.050 --> 00:47:55.240 or show the score per question. 900 00:47:55.240 --> 00:47:57.760 Meaning, the questions might be like, 901 00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:59.170 question one you got two points, 902 00:47:59.170 --> 00:48:01.140 question two you got zero points, 903 00:48:01.140 --> 00:48:03.030 question three, you got two points, 904 00:48:03.030 --> 00:48:04.053 that kind of thing. 905 00:48:06.350 --> 00:48:07.970 And they could get it 906 00:48:07.970 --> 00:48:09.630 as soon as they're done with their test 907 00:48:09.630 --> 00:48:13.490 or of course we have more options. 908 00:48:13.490 --> 00:48:17.520 They could see it only once, like right afterwards 909 00:48:17.520 --> 00:48:20.250 but then they would never see it again. 910 00:48:20.250 --> 00:48:22.640 So it would be hard for them to go back 911 00:48:22.640 --> 00:48:24.740 and gather that information for friends 912 00:48:24.740 --> 00:48:27.080 if they were so inclined 913 00:48:27.080 --> 00:48:31.240 or to share on some test sharing site 914 00:48:31.240 --> 00:48:33.800 where people use for massive cheating. 915 00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:35.560 I hate to talk like this about students 916 00:48:35.560 --> 00:48:37.857 but occasionally there are people that do this 917 00:48:37.857 --> 00:48:40.490 and some faculty are concerned about it. 918 00:48:40.490 --> 00:48:44.710 So you can say on a specific date 919 00:48:44.710 --> 00:48:46.150 like I'm going to actually, 920 00:48:46.150 --> 00:48:50.120 I don't want them to see anything, any scores they got 921 00:48:50.120 --> 00:48:54.580 until I know that everybody's taking the class 922 00:48:54.580 --> 00:48:57.530 including that student who couldn't take it today 923 00:48:57.530 --> 00:48:59.640 because she's going to a funeral 924 00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:01.670 and she's going to take it tomorrow. 925 00:49:01.670 --> 00:49:03.760 Instead, you can say, okay 926 00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:08.760 nobody gets any results until after everybody's. 927 00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:10.310 I know everybody's taking it 928 00:49:10.310 --> 00:49:13.390 on the 23rd and I can choose the time, 929 00:49:13.390 --> 00:49:14.990 that kind of thing. 930 00:49:14.990 --> 00:49:18.833 So this is when they find out what they got. 931 00:49:19.712 --> 00:49:21.890 You could make it after the due date 932 00:49:21.890 --> 00:49:23.850 after the availability end date 933 00:49:23.850 --> 00:49:26.600 which was 10:30 in the morning 934 00:49:26.600 --> 00:49:28.840 and after all attempts are graded. 935 00:49:28.840 --> 00:49:32.250 So this particular option is like 936 00:49:32.250 --> 00:49:34.220 once everybody's got their score, 937 00:49:34.220 --> 00:49:36.920 including that student who has to take it the next day 938 00:49:38.470 --> 00:49:41.170 then everybody can see it. 939 00:49:41.170 --> 00:49:44.500 But if you have someone who's just blowing it off 940 00:49:44.500 --> 00:49:46.200 and is going to get a zero 941 00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:48.893 this will hang up for everyone else. 942 00:49:50.020 --> 00:49:52.390 So I do not recommend that. 943 00:49:52.390 --> 00:49:56.070 So I usually recommend on a specific date. 944 00:49:56.070 --> 00:49:58.890 So you have control assuming you know 945 00:49:58.890 --> 00:50:01.190 that everyone will have taken it by that date. 946 00:50:03.660 --> 00:50:07.293 And then, I know this is exhausting. 947 00:50:08.810 --> 00:50:11.023 How do you present the questions? 948 00:50:12.820 --> 00:50:15.560 Some people really want to do all at once 949 00:50:15.560 --> 00:50:17.630 and I understand that it replicates 950 00:50:17.630 --> 00:50:20.900 what you have when you're looking at paper at a desk. 951 00:50:20.900 --> 00:50:23.360 But the reason why we recommend one at a time 952 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:27.750 is sometimes each time the student sees a question, 953 00:50:27.750 --> 00:50:30.690 they have to answer it and click next 954 00:50:30.690 --> 00:50:33.700 then Blackboard saves that question. 955 00:50:33.700 --> 00:50:36.640 So it's actually making the connection 956 00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:38.434 to the Blackboard server 957 00:50:38.434 --> 00:50:41.933 and they know their internet connection is still good. 958 00:50:42.870 --> 00:50:45.670 And if for some reason in the background, 959 00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:47.150 their internet connection dropped 960 00:50:47.150 --> 00:50:48.560 and they didn't know it 961 00:50:48.560 --> 00:50:49.900 and they answered a question 962 00:50:49.900 --> 00:50:50.770 and they went to save it, 963 00:50:50.770 --> 00:50:53.130 it would just kind of hang up 964 00:50:53.130 --> 00:50:55.300 and they'd probably have to quit their browser 965 00:50:55.300 --> 00:50:58.340 and start again or it would give an answer saying 966 00:50:58.340 --> 00:51:00.000 your connection is lost. 967 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.300 Somehow they would know, oh no. 968 00:51:02.300 --> 00:51:03.940 Just tried to answer question five 969 00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:04.910 and it's not working. 970 00:51:04.910 --> 00:51:09.000 I have to restart my browser, log back in 971 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:10.543 and continue taking it. 972 00:51:11.940 --> 00:51:13.470 If it was all at once, 973 00:51:13.470 --> 00:51:15.570 they could go merrily along 974 00:51:15.570 --> 00:51:18.540 answering you know, 60 questions, 975 00:51:18.540 --> 00:51:22.080 not realizing that they lost their internet connection 976 00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:24.690 way back at question number five. 977 00:51:24.690 --> 00:51:25.540 And they wouldn't know 978 00:51:25.540 --> 00:51:28.420 until they clicked submit at the end 979 00:51:28.420 --> 00:51:32.140 and it will say your internet connection isn't good. 980 00:51:32.140 --> 00:51:35.910 And so sometimes students are on poor connections 981 00:51:35.910 --> 00:51:37.990 and things drop in behind the scenes 982 00:51:37.990 --> 00:51:39.750 and they don't realize it. 983 00:51:39.750 --> 00:51:41.970 So one at a time allows them 984 00:51:41.970 --> 00:51:44.163 to save every question as they go. 985 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.550 They can still go back and view 986 00:51:47.550 --> 00:51:50.110 what their answers were on previous questions 987 00:51:50.110 --> 00:51:54.140 if you want them to have that option like on paper 988 00:51:54.140 --> 00:51:56.090 where you go through and you check 989 00:51:56.090 --> 00:51:58.460 or maybe you skip the hardest questions until later 990 00:51:58.460 --> 00:52:00.150 and then you go back and answer them 991 00:52:00.150 --> 00:52:01.153 when you have time, 992 00:52:01.990 --> 00:52:05.620 all of those tests, excuse me, 993 00:52:05.620 --> 00:52:10.620 testing tips that students learn one at a time 994 00:52:11.070 --> 00:52:12.530 allows them to do that 995 00:52:12.530 --> 00:52:16.490 as long as this is not selected. 996 00:52:16.490 --> 00:52:19.320 Some people say, don't let them backtrack. 997 00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.590 And they're worried that if they backtrack 998 00:52:22.590 --> 00:52:24.340 it'll help them collude with each other 999 00:52:24.340 --> 00:52:26.220 and that is a possibility. 1000 00:52:26.220 --> 00:52:30.270 So it's just still no, 1001 00:52:30.270 --> 00:52:31.627 we don't recommend it 1002 00:52:31.627 --> 00:52:34.043 and the access office doesn't recommend it 1003 00:52:34.043 --> 00:52:35.830 because students especially 1004 00:52:35.830 --> 00:52:38.360 with accommodation needs sometimes. 1005 00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:42.300 Really need to have the option to review 1006 00:52:42.300 --> 00:52:45.040 before they finish the whole test. 1007 00:52:45.040 --> 00:52:46.000 Ines, 1008 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:47.370 Sure, yeah, go ahead. 1009 00:52:47.370 --> 00:52:50.140 Do students know how you're programming this 1010 00:52:50.140 --> 00:52:51.860 and what their options... 1011 00:52:51.860 --> 00:52:53.180 Yeah, they will give them notification. 1012 00:52:53.180 --> 00:52:56.710 It will say things like you have one hour. 1013 00:52:56.710 --> 00:52:58.423 I can show you what it looks like. 1014 00:52:59.314 --> 00:53:01.240 I'm gonna say randomized questions. 1015 00:53:01.240 --> 00:53:04.830 In order to show you what it looks like as a student, 1016 00:53:04.830 --> 00:53:06.950 I'm gonna turn off 1017 00:53:06.950 --> 00:53:11.350 so that it's just available right now to students. 1018 00:53:11.350 --> 00:53:13.140 Right here it says, make available. 1019 00:53:13.140 --> 00:53:16.520 Yes, everything else, I'm gonna keep the same 1020 00:53:16.520 --> 00:53:18.143 and I'm gonna click submit. 1021 00:53:20.290 --> 00:53:24.193 And now I'm gonna go in as my fake student account. 1022 00:53:26.366 --> 00:53:28.316 And when you go to the student preview, 1023 00:53:32.930 --> 00:53:34.480 now you can see this is proper. 1024 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:36.340 Cause now I don't see my control panel 1025 00:53:36.340 --> 00:53:38.120 and that's how it should be. 1026 00:53:38.120 --> 00:53:39.590 When you do student preview, 1027 00:53:39.590 --> 00:53:42.630 you should have the same exact view that students have. 1028 00:53:42.630 --> 00:53:45.087 So I'm gonna be a student right now 1029 00:53:45.087 --> 00:53:47.800 and my name as a student is called, 1030 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.080 my name and then underscore preview user. 1031 00:53:52.080 --> 00:53:53.120 And you can even see it 1032 00:53:53.120 --> 00:53:56.633 in the grade center when you go to look. 1033 00:53:57.760 --> 00:53:59.163 So there's the exam. 1034 00:54:00.170 --> 00:54:01.860 And it tells me that I have a limit 1035 00:54:01.860 --> 00:54:03.870 of one hour and 10 minutes. 1036 00:54:03.870 --> 00:54:06.180 This test will save and submit automatically 1037 00:54:06.180 --> 00:54:09.560 when the time expires for its completion. 1038 00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:13.340 This test can be saved and resumed at any point 1039 00:54:13.340 --> 00:54:16.060 until the time has expired. 1040 00:54:16.060 --> 00:54:19.780 The timer will continue to run if you leave the test. 1041 00:54:19.780 --> 00:54:22.393 Again, that forced completion thing 1042 00:54:22.393 --> 00:54:24.373 leaving the unchecked allows them, 1043 00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:28.493 say the test is 70 minutes. 1044 00:54:30.380 --> 00:54:31.760 After they get to question five 1045 00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:34.010 they've lost their internet connection. 1046 00:54:34.010 --> 00:54:36.683 They have to restart their computer, 1047 00:54:36.683 --> 00:54:40.020 their cable box or something. 1048 00:54:40.020 --> 00:54:42.070 They get back on finally, 1049 00:54:42.070 --> 00:54:44.760 meanwhile, that timer's ticking away 1050 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:46.360 and they've lost 10 minutes of time 1051 00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:47.780 but that's why you've given them 1052 00:54:47.780 --> 00:54:52.450 some extra wiggle room in the timer. 1053 00:54:52.450 --> 00:54:56.260 And they could just resume and continue exactly 1054 00:54:56.260 --> 00:54:59.240 on question number six and continue the test. 1055 00:54:59.240 --> 00:55:02.640 But as it says here the timer will continue to run 1056 00:55:02.640 --> 00:55:07.640 and it will be saved and resumed at any point 1057 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.593 until time has expired. 1058 00:55:12.620 --> 00:55:14.040 And also bear in mind 1059 00:55:14.040 --> 00:55:19.040 that availability time frame that I chose 1060 00:55:19.060 --> 00:55:22.340 of having it being available till 10:30, 1061 00:55:22.340 --> 00:55:24.230 from 9:00 to 10:30. 1062 00:55:24.230 --> 00:55:26.980 If a student got knocked off, 1063 00:55:26.980 --> 00:55:31.980 if they started the test at at 9:15 for some odd reason 1064 00:55:32.670 --> 00:55:35.060 normally they would still get 70 minutes for it. 1065 00:55:35.060 --> 00:55:37.947 But if for some reason they lost their internet connection 1066 00:55:37.947 --> 00:55:42.050 and they tried to go back in at 10:45, 1067 00:55:42.050 --> 00:55:43.180 that link would be gone 1068 00:55:43.180 --> 00:55:48.180 because you chose to make that link away at 10:30. 1069 00:55:48.590 --> 00:55:51.670 I feel like I'm just probably overwhelming people 1070 00:55:51.670 --> 00:55:53.013 with all these details. 1071 00:55:54.700 --> 00:55:57.090 But again, this is just like 1072 00:55:57.090 --> 00:55:59.820 to familiarize you with everything 1073 00:55:59.820 --> 00:56:03.180 and then the CTL can help you. 1074 00:56:03.180 --> 00:56:06.590 But as a student, I would then click begin 1075 00:56:06.590 --> 00:56:09.760 and this is what it looks like. 1076 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:12.290 So the Brooklyn Borough of New York City 1077 00:56:12.290 --> 00:56:15.053 was previously known as, 1078 00:56:19.250 --> 00:56:22.513 what? I guess I have to, 1079 00:56:25.550 --> 00:56:26.930 question number one, 1080 00:56:26.930 --> 00:56:30.823 doesn't seem to be formatting correctly, 1081 00:56:33.800 --> 00:56:34.663 I don't know why. 1082 00:56:41.490 --> 00:56:42.810 All right, question number one. 1083 00:56:42.810 --> 00:56:45.410 Let me just see what question number two looks like, 1084 00:56:46.259 --> 00:56:47.513 it's a saving answer. 1085 00:56:49.680 --> 00:56:51.870 Seems to be something kind of screwy, 1086 00:56:51.870 --> 00:56:53.010 question is unanswered, 1087 00:56:53.010 --> 00:56:55.646 okay, yeah, I'm trying to answer it. 1088 00:56:55.646 --> 00:56:56.810 I'm not seeing where to type, 1089 00:56:56.810 --> 00:56:59.343 maybe it's invisible. 1090 00:57:00.750 --> 00:57:02.370 Oh, there it is, okay. 1091 00:57:02.370 --> 00:57:05.610 So you can't really see in Blackboard anymore 1092 00:57:05.610 --> 00:57:07.400 where the fields are, 1093 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.640 I hate that they're like so pale 1094 00:57:10.630 --> 00:57:13.270 but anyway, I'm gonna say, I don't know what it was, 1095 00:57:13.270 --> 00:57:15.763 I'll just put in some King County or something. 1096 00:57:20.970 --> 00:57:22.780 So that's a fill in the blank 1097 00:57:22.780 --> 00:57:26.570 and it's barely able to tell where that is. 1098 00:57:26.570 --> 00:57:28.210 So now I'm gonna say save, 1099 00:57:28.210 --> 00:57:29.690 now it's happy, it's gonna save 1100 00:57:29.690 --> 00:57:31.193 and I can go to question two. 1101 00:57:32.730 --> 00:57:35.630 It says I have an hour and eight minutes remaining. 1102 00:57:35.630 --> 00:57:38.893 So it lets the student know that the timer's going down. 1103 00:57:40.130 --> 00:57:42.340 Put these in order of the Harry Potter 1104 00:57:42.340 --> 00:57:46.303 so I can say, let's see. 1105 00:57:48.057 --> 00:57:50.110 "The Chamber of Secrets" I think was one. 1106 00:57:50.110 --> 00:57:50.943 You know what I mean? 1107 00:57:50.943 --> 00:57:53.210 You can go through, I don't remember what's what, 1108 00:57:53.210 --> 00:57:55.210 but I think that was the last one, 1109 00:57:55.210 --> 00:57:56.043 I don't know. 1110 00:57:56.043 --> 00:57:56.917 Anyway, so you can go through 1111 00:57:56.917 --> 00:58:00.300 and answer every question one by one 1112 00:58:00.300 --> 00:58:04.720 and then up here, you can see all the questions of the test 1113 00:58:04.720 --> 00:58:08.130 and you can see whether you've completed them or not. 1114 00:58:08.130 --> 00:58:08.963 I don't know what happens 1115 00:58:08.963 --> 00:58:11.690 if you jump to question three, 1116 00:58:11.690 --> 00:58:13.160 you can then answer it. 1117 00:58:13.160 --> 00:58:18.160 Question number three, student seven, save my answer. 1118 00:58:19.050 --> 00:58:21.010 It makes that connection with the internet, 1119 00:58:21.010 --> 00:58:24.440 it tells me which questions, you know, 1120 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:25.670 like say I skipped that one 1121 00:58:25.670 --> 00:58:27.120 because I want to think about it more, 1122 00:58:27.120 --> 00:58:29.350 but I'm worried about my time. 1123 00:58:29.350 --> 00:58:31.420 So I'm just gonna go past it 1124 00:58:31.420 --> 00:58:36.420 and make sure I get these other ones answer that I know. 1125 00:58:37.540 --> 00:58:40.450 And then it's now saved 1126 00:58:40.450 --> 00:58:43.740 so it shows you everyone that saved. 1127 00:58:43.740 --> 00:58:45.570 Because I didn't prohibit backtracking, 1128 00:58:45.570 --> 00:58:48.480 I can go back and look at question one again 1129 00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.233 and I can review what I did. 1130 00:58:51.120 --> 00:58:53.927 I can go back and finish this unfinished one 1131 00:58:53.927 --> 00:58:56.087 and I can skip around that way 1132 00:58:56.087 --> 00:58:58.280 and it tells me what I've answered or not. 1133 00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:01.023 So that's what it looks like to students. 1134 00:59:04.150 --> 00:59:08.180 If I try to at the very bottom close window 1135 00:59:08.180 --> 00:59:10.500 it's gonna probably give me a warning. 1136 00:59:10.500 --> 00:59:14.160 The changes you made might not be saved, that's fine. 1137 00:59:14.160 --> 00:59:16.030 If I exit the preview now 1138 00:59:18.690 --> 00:59:22.310 If I go down to grade center. 1139 00:59:22.310 --> 00:59:23.959 Once you deploy it, 1140 00:59:23.959 --> 00:59:28.959 that's the point where the the grade center, 1141 00:59:31.710 --> 00:59:33.183 oh, this is not good. 1142 00:59:34.420 --> 00:59:35.883 Edit mode is off. 1143 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:40.300 Oh, did you notice though 1144 00:59:40.300 --> 00:59:42.663 that I still had my student groups down there? 1145 00:59:44.210 --> 00:59:45.910 So anyway, yeah, that was weird. 1146 00:59:47.310 --> 00:59:50.120 Oh yeah, so, all right. 1147 00:59:50.120 --> 00:59:51.453 So edit mode on. 1148 00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:58.430 And if I go down to the grade center, 1149 00:59:58.430 --> 01:00:00.140 once you deploy it there's a column 1150 01:00:00.140 --> 01:00:03.893 that's automatically added to the grade center. 1151 01:00:06.060 --> 01:00:10.560 That's me Ines Berrizbetia preview user. 1152 01:00:10.560 --> 01:00:15.343 And you can scroll over to see 1153 01:00:17.010 --> 01:00:19.900 where the test showed up here 1154 01:00:19.900 --> 01:00:23.150 and that little icon, if you hover over it 1155 01:00:23.150 --> 01:00:25.630 a little thing pops up to tell you what it means, 1156 01:00:25.630 --> 01:00:27.070 attempt is in progress 1157 01:00:27.070 --> 01:00:29.560 meaning I haven't really finished it. 1158 01:00:29.560 --> 01:00:33.640 So if a student leaves their test without finishing it 1159 01:00:33.640 --> 01:00:35.640 it's going to look like that. 1160 01:00:35.640 --> 01:00:38.670 And if the whole day is passed 1161 01:00:38.670 --> 01:00:43.350 and you can go in and you can look at what they did 1162 01:00:43.350 --> 01:00:45.480 and you can look at the attempt, 1163 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:47.670 here's her attempt. 1164 01:00:47.670 --> 01:00:49.040 What did she do? 1165 01:00:49.040 --> 01:00:52.950 She's answered some questions. 1166 01:00:52.950 --> 01:00:55.350 Oh, look at that I got it right. 1167 01:00:55.350 --> 01:01:00.350 And then you can see that there are no answers 1168 01:01:01.380 --> 01:01:03.410 given in these other ones, 1169 01:01:03.410 --> 01:01:04.610 but I can go through and see 1170 01:01:04.610 --> 01:01:06.770 if she's answered all the questions 1171 01:01:06.770 --> 01:01:10.690 and just forgot to save it or something. 1172 01:01:10.690 --> 01:01:15.690 And what I can do is go to, 1173 01:01:15.750 --> 01:01:18.940 I'm not sure where this is again now, but. 1174 01:01:18.940 --> 01:01:21.890 So when it's done and graded 1175 01:01:21.890 --> 01:01:23.590 what shows up in the grade center 1176 01:01:23.590 --> 01:01:25.203 is the percent correct? 1177 01:01:26.510 --> 01:01:28.040 Right. 1178 01:01:28.040 --> 01:01:30.000 Once you do a grade curve, 1179 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.610 you can add your own column 1180 01:01:31.610 --> 01:01:36.610 and enter A, B, C, D for that percent correct. 1181 01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:42.543 If you wanna use letter grades, you could. 1182 01:01:45.700 --> 01:01:47.280 You can program it so it would. 1183 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:48.717 Yeah, yeah, you can do that. 1184 01:01:48.717 --> 01:01:51.340 And if I go to full grade center 1185 01:01:52.380 --> 01:01:55.010 and then go back to that column and I click edit 1186 01:01:56.180 --> 01:01:59.360 all these options here which I won't get into all of them 1187 01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:04.260 but down here is this one called edit column information. 1188 01:02:04.260 --> 01:02:09.260 And it basically tells me a few things about the column. 1189 01:02:09.370 --> 01:02:11.280 One is the score. 1190 01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:12.570 I could just give the score 1191 01:02:12.570 --> 01:02:17.570 which could be 29 points or something. 1192 01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:19.770 I can't remember what it was, 1193 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:22.393 or I could put a letter grade. 1194 01:02:23.260 --> 01:02:28.260 Got you, so actually if you do a curve 1195 01:02:28.540 --> 01:02:33.540 rather than a rigid grading scheme, 1196 01:02:35.950 --> 01:02:38.110 letter grading scheme at the outset 1197 01:02:39.310 --> 01:02:43.740 it's probably better to have it display the score 1198 01:02:43.740 --> 01:02:45.490 rather than the percent. 1199 01:02:45.490 --> 01:02:50.490 And then I can imagine you could program this 1200 01:02:52.790 --> 01:02:56.100 for Blackboard to convert that score to a letter grade 1201 01:02:56.100 --> 01:03:00.363 according to the curve that you program. 1202 01:03:01.820 --> 01:03:06.090 Well, I'm not really sure exactly about the curve business 1203 01:03:07.550 --> 01:03:08.640 but that might be something 1204 01:03:08.640 --> 01:03:11.040 that you could consult with us on individually 1205 01:03:11.040 --> 01:03:14.100 and certainly the Blackboard administrator would know 1206 01:03:14.100 --> 01:03:15.560 even Justin Schimmel might know, 1207 01:03:15.560 --> 01:03:17.213 but as far as I, 1208 01:03:18.430 --> 01:03:20.823 I don't know if you have a huge class. 1209 01:03:22.300 --> 01:03:24.340 Well, over 100 students. 1210 01:03:24.340 --> 01:03:25.820 Okay, so it's not something 1211 01:03:25.820 --> 01:03:28.060 that you probably wanna enter everyone's grade 1212 01:03:28.060 --> 01:03:29.670 into a blank column manually, 1213 01:03:29.670 --> 01:03:32.313 but in the grade center. 1214 01:03:34.430 --> 01:03:39.430 So if this is the their earned grade 1215 01:03:39.550 --> 01:03:42.560 as Blackboard computes it, 1216 01:03:42.560 --> 01:03:45.753 you could hide this column from students for the moment. 1217 01:03:47.490 --> 01:03:48.943 You could make a new column, 1218 01:03:50.710 --> 01:03:55.710 call it exam one final grade. 1219 01:03:58.680 --> 01:03:59.810 This would be the one 1220 01:03:59.810 --> 01:04:03.313 where you're gonna have your modified, 1221 01:04:07.980 --> 01:04:09.170 value must be provided. 1222 01:04:09.170 --> 01:04:13.410 So I'm gonna say points possible. 1223 01:04:13.410 --> 01:04:15.820 I don't know exactly what it would be, 1224 01:04:15.820 --> 01:04:18.500 but I'm just gonna say, submit, 1225 01:04:18.500 --> 01:04:21.823 and then it's gonna appear over here. 1226 01:04:25.658 --> 01:04:27.940 I could download this column into Excel 1227 01:04:27.940 --> 01:04:30.023 and calculate this and upload it, 1228 01:04:31.179 --> 01:04:32.760 with something there. 1229 01:04:32.760 --> 01:04:34.780 I don't exactly know how we would approach it 1230 01:04:34.780 --> 01:04:36.700 but that's how you could do it. 1231 01:04:36.700 --> 01:04:37.760 I don't know that many people 1232 01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:40.453 that have been grading on a curve in Blackboard, but. 1233 01:04:41.662 --> 01:04:42.495 That's fine. 1234 01:04:42.495 --> 01:04:45.360 I feel like I have some direction, thank you. 1235 01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:46.990 Yeah, sure. 1236 01:04:46.990 --> 01:04:48.050 Okay, so that's it. 1237 01:04:48.050 --> 01:04:50.790 That's making the test, 1238 01:04:50.790 --> 01:04:53.470 importing questions from Word document 1239 01:04:53.470 --> 01:04:56.303 and deploying the test. 1240 01:04:58.171 --> 01:05:02.350 And I think we've definitely gone over time. 1241 01:05:02.350 --> 01:05:04.390 So I apologize for that. 1242 01:05:04.390 --> 01:05:06.860 And some people have left, 1243 01:05:06.860 --> 01:05:09.960 but if you have any questions 1244 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:11.973 I do have a console I have to get to. 1245 01:05:13.878 --> 01:05:15.830 I'm grateful that you came 1246 01:05:15.830 --> 01:05:19.650 and I think we have a survey we're sending out, 1247 01:05:19.650 --> 01:05:23.050 I'm not sure if that's going out on the Blackboard courses 1248 01:05:23.050 --> 01:05:24.470 or if it's just the other courses 1249 01:05:24.470 --> 01:05:29.080 but if you do get it, please fill it out. 1250 01:05:29.080 --> 01:05:30.870 It will be sent to you. 1251 01:05:30.870 --> 01:05:35.870 And for now, I'm just gonna say thanks for coming 1252 01:05:36.180 --> 01:05:38.490 and contact us with any questions 1253 01:05:38.490 --> 01:05:42.140 for setting up your own test for yourself, okay? 1254 01:05:42.140 --> 01:05:44.000 Thank you Ines, Thank you, Justin. 1255 01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:45.180 You're very welcome.