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I was wondering if you could give us some idea as to the intended type of content...............thanks Sarah Connor Senior Lecturer / Adult Nursing Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences School of Nursing Kingston Hill Surrey KT2 7LB Tel 0208-547-8708 ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Temmink <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:29 pm Subject: Re: Online assessment using Blackboard To: [log in to unmask] > Dear Colleagues > Following a discussion trend in JISC Blackboard user group, about > ComputerAided Assessment and VLE's (Bb), I suggested that > Westminster might host a > working lunch/ reasonably informal session on above subject. A > platform if > you will, where we might fruitfully have an exchange of ideas and > workingpractices. > > I am delighted to have been told by our Director of On-Line > Learning, Prof > Gunter Saunders, that he would be delighted to host such an event. > > Can I therefore extend an invite to the first 20-25 colleagues > responding to > this invitation, to join us here at the University of Westminster on > Wednesday 18th of April at say 12:30 for 1pm. > I imagine the session lasting till about 4:30pm. > Buffet type lunch and tea/ coffee later on will be provided by us. > Looking forward to hearing from you soon > > The Marylebone Campus is sooooo easy to find in London:- we are > oppositeBaker Street tube station and immediately opposite Madame > Tussaud's.... > > RSVP to [log in to unmask] > > > Kindest regards > Harry Temmink > > > H J Temmink > School Senior Tutor > Westminster Business School > University of Westminster > 35 Marylebone Rd, London, NW1 5LS > > This email, its contents and attachments are confidential and it > should be > assumed that they are legally privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient please contact me immediately on [log in to unmask] > You must not copy any part of this e-mail and/or its > attachment(s) or use > this material for any purpose. You must not disclose the contents > to any > other person and you should ensure that it is permanently deleted > from all > of your computer systems. > There are risks in communicating by e-mail. No liability is > accepted for > any data corruption, delay, interception, unauthorised amendment, > virustransmission or their consequences. Willingness to > communicate by e- mail > conveys an acceptance of the risks inherent in the system. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 10 February 2007 17:31 > To: [log in to unmask]; Bernadette Hilditch > Subject: RE: Online assessment using Blackboard > > Hi > > I'm a Learning Technology Adviser at the University of Brighton > and am > responsible for supporting schools on our Eastbourne Campus. > > Quite a number of our sport science lecturers are using Bb for online > assessments and, in general get on quite well with it i think. > > Recently though, I became aware of the annoying scoring system > employedin the Multiple Answer questions where the 'partial > credit' option seems > to promise the ability to allocate a score of say, 2 out of 5 if a > student successfully identifies 2 of 3 possible correct answers. > However, these question types use a negative scoring system which > isn'tat all helpful to the overall result. > > Anyway, that aside, i'd be very interested in having copies of your > papers and student instructions and also if you have any advice on the > best way to download the results to Excel. In my experience, the data > needs a lot of tidying up once it's downloaded - I would be very > greatful for any advice on the quickest and easiest way to do > this. At > the moment I use Find ( <*> ) and Replace to clean up the html > tags but > haven't discovered a quick way to delete all those unwanted columns. > > Any advice would be very much appreciated. > > With kind Regards > > Joyce Webber > Learning Technologies Adviser > University of Brighton > Eastbourne Campus > 01273 644112 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bernadette > Hilditch > Sent: 09 February 2007 16:29 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Online assessment using Blackboard > > ME TOO Harry - experience in enjoying making it work - and we are also > upbeat about it > I manage Blackboard here in College and have successfully trained > lecturers to use it > for online testing (both self assessment and final exams) across a > variety of subject areas. > Bernadette Hilditch > St Helens College > Curriculum On-Line Co-ordinator > e-Learning Consultant (SAIITT) > > > ________________________________ > > From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist on behalf of > [log in to unmask] > Sent: Thu 2/8/2007 14:38 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Online assessment using Blackboard > > > > My experience at the Westminster Business School, is luckily far more > up-beat > than Mark's comments > I have for the last 2.5 years run exams in Excel applications > using Bb > with > student numbers of around 350 - 400 at the same time! > I would not want to go back to mannually marking all those > spreadsheets!If anyone is interested, I can let them have either > papers on the > subject or > instructions we give to students before each exam. > > There are plenty of critisisms of Bb and it's handling exam software, > but I have > experience in making it work! > Kind Regatrds > Harry Temmink > Principal Lecturer & > School Senior Tutor > Westminster Business School > University of Westminster > 35 Marylebone Road > London NW1 5LS > > > > Quoting Mark Gamble <[log in to unmask]>: > > > We do lots of high stakes CBE and wouldn't dream of using Bb. It's > > important that CB exams are as robust as possible and anything else > > takiing place on the same sytsem at the same time as a high stakes > exam > > is, imho, a recipe for disaster. For whoever proposed the idea, > suggest > > they consider the consequences of an exam lock-up when students are > 65% > > through exam time - and was thse system capturing answers > throughout?> What about server performance, too, if you have 100 > students taking an > > exam and some lecturer, in all innocence, starts a heavy-demand > activity > > on your Bb system (at the same time as a dozen others decide the > same> thing)? And of course, can you ensure security on a server > which is > > actually intended for all your students to access anyway? > > > > We use QMP and have 4 (yup, four) servers. Two, balanced, for the > exams, > > one for test and one for open-access low stakes and general > materials.> And I have to say, we still have problems: the > balanced pair went > > through a single switch - and, yes, it had to fail in the middle > of an > > exam. We live and learn..... I wouldn't say QuestionMark is entirely > > straightforward to implement, either....... > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards > > Mark > > > > Mark Gamble > > Head of Learning Technology > > University of Bedfordshire > > Tel (+44)1582 489260 Fax (+44)1582 489259 > > Mob 07720 068605 Int ext 2260 / 6360 (mobex) > > > > > > >>> [log in to unmask] 02/07/07 10:32 AM >>> > > Hi > > > > > > > > PCMD is eager to implement online high stakes assessment in the near > > future. As well as investigating the provision of QMP, I have been > > asked to consider the feasibility of using Blackboards built in > > assessment tools. Yes, that's what I thought....! :o$ > > > > > > > > If anyone does have any experience of using Blackboard for > really high > > stakes assessment, or has any advice on implementing this using > > alternative software, I'd be really grateful to hear your thoughts. > > > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > Tash > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > > > Natasha Harden > > > > Teaching, Learning & Assessment Systems Leader > > > > Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry > > > > Room C303, Portland Square > > > > Drake Circus, Plymouth > > > > PL4 8AA > > > > > > > > (01752) 238016 > > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > H J Temmink > School Senior Tutor > Westminster Business School > University of Westminster > 35 Marylebone Road > London NW1 5LS > > This email, its contents and attachments are confidential and it > shouldbe > assumed that they are legally privileged. If you are not the intended > recipient please contact me immediately on [log in to unmask] > You must not copy any part of this e-mail and/or its attachment(s) or > use this > material for any purpose. You must not disclose the contents to any > other > person and you should ensure that it is permanently deleted from > all of > your > computer systems. > There are risks in communicating by e-mail. No liability is > accepted for > any > data corruption, delay, interception, unauthorised amendment, virus > transmission or their consequences. Willingness to communicate by > e-mail > conveys an acceptance of the risks inherent in the system. >