I copied my earlier message to the guy who wrote the script; following
message just arrived in response. Needless to say my only comment is WHY
isn't he working for Bb?!
(still go along with respondus as an option, but worth checking out if
you've not done...)
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Kate Boardman
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Carter-Tod [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 July 2003 14:16 PM
To: Kate Boardman
Subject: RE: question order in assessments
At 10:24 AM 7/9/2003 +0100, Kate Boardman wrote:
>the honest answer for quite a few of us would be to create the pool outside
>of Blackboard, at Wytheville Community College's Blackboard Quiz Generator
>http://www.wc.cc.va.us/services/blackboard/ - this keeps the order of the
>questions as you set them - though in blocks of question type.
Kate,
Thanks for copying me on this. Actually, these days I think it should
order questions properly.
>Actually, I'll perhaps copy this to the american list, because the one
thing
>it doesn't do is let you add a name for the pool, so maybe I can urge the
>guys that developed it to consider that for their next tweak - I know for
>one I'd be lost without it. (And don't think the upload questions from a
>text file in Bb 6 is better, cos it's not!)
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
p.s. ask and you shall receive - check out the page.
David
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David Carter-Tod
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Wytheville Community College, 1000 E. Main St.,
Wytheville, VA 24382
(wk) 276-223-4784
http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/
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