Hi Saima,
The problems arising out of a PC crash, server crash, the internet being down etc impact not only on summative assessments but also ongoing use of wikis, blogs journals etc. My only real advice for back-up procedures is, and I am not sure this helps too much, is to get the students to write everything in whatever word processing application they have on their PC (making sure they hit 'save' frequently) and then to cut and paste the text into Blackboard (assessments, wikis, blogs etc). In the worst case scenario this should reduce the impact of any technology failures. Equally, it is important to have robust assessment procedures to cater for what should happen in case of technology failing. If you think about it, assessment procedures already cater for issues which might interfere with normal, non-electronic assessments e.g. a fire alarm going off during a traditional exam. The same assessment procedures need to be discussed and modified to cater for possible failures of technology.
Yours
Steve
On 10 May 2010, at 09:43, Saima Akhtar wrote:
> Hi there
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> We have a summative assessment set up in test manager which has been built using the essay question type. I was wondering if anyone has any experience of running similar assessments and if so what advice you might offer in terms of back-up procedures in case a PC unexpectedly crashes or something. Have you found some way of retrieving the answers up to the point they were completed? Does the save option for each question help in any way?
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> We are currently running build 8.0.375
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> Any advice that you can offer on this would be much appreciated.
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> Many thanks
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> Saima Akhtar
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