Dear Trevor,
At Newcastle University we currently run a large amount of summative assessments through Blackboard. Last year we ran 100 exams with over 13,000 student sittings.
The students access the exam through a locked down browser that shows only the Blackboard test area. I believe this is done using Firefox and some Greasemonkey scripts. We also pull the settings of each exam through onto a .php checking page that shows all the relevant settings.
The tests are created either through Blackboard or using a Word document in Respondus format. The navigation around the test functions in Blackboard is not always intuituve and some functionality doesn’t work as you would expect. I'm sure you are familiar with this! We don’t use the Survey functionality and use the Pools rarely.
I think the item analysis feature is very good and helps academic staff to improve the quality of their questions each year.
Dave Sharples has added a link through to our blog. I'm happy to discuss any features offline with you as well.
Best wishes,
Graeme
Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell
Development Officer
Learning and Teaching Development Service
Ground Floor,
King George VI Building,
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
Tel: 0191 208 3903
https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/eportfolio/
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>Sent: 13 January 2015 11:52
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>Subject: Re: Summative Assessments in BB
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>Any chance of keeping the discussion on-line to start with? We are also very
>interested in this.
>Thank you!
>
>Sonia Maurer
>Learning Technologist
>Department of Dermatology
>Cardiff University
>3rd Floor Glamorgan House
>Heath Park
>Cardiff, Wales, UK
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>Tel. 029 20744760
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>Please note I only work Monday to Wednesday and I cannot guarantee to
>respond outside of these times.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:BLACKBOARD-
>[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trevor Meek
>Sent: 13 January 2015 11:22
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>Subject: Summative Assessments in BB
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>Just a short note to ask if anyone has experience of using BB for summative
>assessment - especially on a large scale. I am looking at the possibility of
>moving away from QMP and porting questions/assessments from QMP into
>Blackboard. Your comments on the test, survey and pool functionality, and
>analytics of BB would be most welcome (faults, flaws, good points, bad
>points...) and also using BB for secure delivery of assessments.
>
>I would be very interested in hearing from you off-line at
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>Many thanks in advance.
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