Assessing Learners
3.1. Grade Center
Grade Center Basics
- Getting Started with the Grade Center

- Customizing the Grade Center

- Viewing One Student at a Time

- Sending an Email from the Grade Center

Grade Center Advanced
- Creating Smart Views

- Creating a Grade Rule

- Viewing Grade Details

- Anonymous Grading

- Creating Grading Notes

- Creating a Grade Center Report

- Creating a Grading Rubric

- Grading Assignments Question by Question

- Viewing and Downloading Grade History

- Color Code in the Grade Center

- Working OFFLINE with the Grade Center

3.2. Tests, Surveys, and Pools
Recommended ways for a quick test creation:
- NEW Blackboard Test/Pool Generator: This new tool allows you to create tests and pools from numbered and formatted text similar to what you may receive from book publishers. It works with Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers, True or False, Essay and Fill in the Blank type of questions.
- OLD Blackboard Test/Pool Generator: This tool requires you to create tests from unformatted, unnumbered text. It works with Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers, True or False, Essay, Matching, Ordering type of questions. It also allows the creation of surveys.
Creating Tests using the Old Test Pool Generator
Tests
- Creating a Test

- Getting Started with Building a Test

- Uploading Test Questions from Microsoft Excel

- Tour the Question Finder Feature

- Creating a Fill in the Blank Question

- Creating a Short Answer Question

- Creating a True or False Question

- Adding an Existing Question to a Test

- Creating a Calculated Formula Question

- Creating a Calculated Numeric Question

- Creating an Essay Question

- Creating a Fill in Multiple Blanks Question

- Creating a Hot Spot Question

- Creating a Jumbled Question

- Creating a Likert Question

- Creating a Multiple Answer Question

- Creating a Multiple Choice Question

- Creating an Ordering Question

- Creating a Quiz Bowl Question

- Tagging Questions for Reuse

Surveys
Pools