Multiple choice questions (MCQs) can be a useful time saver for academics as they are quick to mark, but they are only useful to the learners if they are planned well. Here are some pointers for you to consider when designing and implementing multiple choice quizzes, whether on paper or in Blackboard.
Providing feedback to students can be one of the most effective ways to help them learn. How, what and when feedback is delivered is key. Poor quality feedback provided at the wrong time can do more harm than good.
The characteristics of effective feedback.
This webpage contains detailed guidance on how you can combine Blackboard’s Student Preview and adaptive release tools to verify tests or assignments and test out marking process.
Recommended techniques to use in Blackboard tests, to increase the confidence you have in the security, reliability or validity of online assessments.
Here are a collection of quick tip videos demonstrating some of the Blackboard assessment and feedback tools that are available.
This article provides an overview of all the question types available in Blackboard tests, and provides guidance on how to set them up.
A step-by-step guide on how to build an online test in Blackboard for use in an examination.
Our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities have come up with a method whereby students can upload their videos to the University’s Video Portal, and paste the generated link into Blackboard. This will enable you to view the videos in the Blackboard assignment tool, without placing a strain on Blackboard’s servers.
Resources to support the design of effective assessment.
