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
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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
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> -----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)
>
>
> ________________________________
>
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> [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]
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> >
> >
>
>
> H J Temmink
> School Senior Tutor
> Westminster Business School
> University of Westminster
> 35 Marylebone Road
> London NW1 5LS
>
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