Tests - Deploying the Test
Learning Technologies > Blackboard > Faculty > Tests.
- Sections
- Creating Online Exams in Test Manager
- Types of Questions
- Developing Questions
- Deploying the Test
- Student View of Tests
- Tests in Grade Center
Deploying the Test
After you have finished adding questions to your test canvas, deploy the test to a content area.
- Go to the Edit View of Assignments or the content area of your choice and click on the +Test button.
- Select your test and click Submit. This will make the test appear in the instructor Edit View, but it must be made available to students before they can take it.
- Click the OK button on the success receipt screen.
- Click Modify the Test Options to set when and how the test will be deployed:
- Pick Yes for Make the link visible, so that students can take the test.
- Pick Yes for Add a new announcement for this Test to create an automatic announcement when the assessment becomes available, otherwise, pick No.
- Check the Multiple attempts box if you want students to be able to take the test more than once.
- Check the Force Completion box if you want students to complete the test the first time they open it.
- Check the Set timer box if you want the have a time limit.
- You can pick a specific time period during which the assessment will appear on Blackboard course page. Check the box(s) which you wish to apply and set the date and time.
Note: You still have to select Yes for Make the link available if you wish to use this feature. - Check the Password box if you want to have students enter a password before they can take the assessment.
- At Test Feedback, choose what students will see when they finish taking the exam. Simply check the box next to the item you wish to include.
- At Test Presentation, choose how the test will be displayed to the students:
Presentation Mode > All at Once will display the whole test on one page.
Presentation Mode > One at a Time will display each question on a seperate page.
Check Prohibit Backtracking to prevent students from changing the answers to questions they have already answered.
Check Randomize Questions to make your test questions appear in a random order for each test attempt.