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Bruce,
There is a third-party tool called Respondus (www.respondus.com) that addresses this and related issues. It allows you to "retrieve" an exam or survey from a Blackboard course and upload it to another course. All questions remain in the same order--even the media files (eg., images, audio) that were included in the exam or survey are maintained. I paid around $60 USD for the software; I think it's possible to download a fully-functional version on a 30-day trial. (I use Respondus primarily for the equation editor--it's the BEST way to deal with math and science symbols in Blackboard--but I've also used it to move a couple of exams from one course to another.)
Rhegan Phelps
Instructional Trainer
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:45:33 -0000
From: "Ingraham, Bruce" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re-using Assessments and Surveys
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Colleagues,
I have just encountered a nuisance in Blackboard and
would be grateful for any suggestions about how to get around it. We are running Bb5 at the moment. We haven't had a window of opportunity to upgrade to 5.51. So if this problem is fixed by the upgrade, I would like to know.
The problem is -- I have recently created a survey in Blackboard in order to evaluate student satisfaction with Blackboard and the resources we have placed on it. This is required by our in institutional QA practices.
This was easy enough, but I wanted to propagate this across a large number of courses; and the only way that I could find to do this was to create a pool of questions from the survey and then export the pool from the first course, import it into the second course and create a new survey in the second course. That wouldn't have been so bad except that when you import questions into a pool, the pool organises them according to question type (e.g. essay, multiple choice, multiple answer). This makes a nonsense of
the organisation of your survey and you have to then re-order all the questions and the process is ridiculously time consuming.
I haven't been able to find anyway of just copying a survey or assessment from one existing course to another existing course. Does anyone have any clever suggestions? Have I missed something obvious?
Many thanks,
Bruce
Bruce Douglas Ingraham, ILTM
Teaching Fellow &
Open & Distance Learning Policy Manager
Centre for Lifelong Learning
University of Teesside
Middlesbrough
United Kingdom
tel. 44 (0)1642 384260
fax 44 (0)1642 384201
email [log in to unmask]
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