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Assisting students with common testing obstacles - Blackboard Tutorial
From the course: Blackboard Essential Training
Assisting students with common testing obstacles
You may recall that I mentioned in an earlier chapter that it's a mistake to assume that your students know how to take an online test. Many may have never taken a single online test. So it's up to you to teach them what to do. In this movie, I want to show you the top five common obstacles your students are going to encounter and how to overcome each. The first, your students might have a difficulty being able to find your test. That could be because the students get into your course, and they accidentally hide the course menu. We showed you a way to solve that, by adding a link to the bottom of your course menu. Just something that's helpful. You just ask the students, do you see that link? If not then you can know that the students have hidden their course menu. We also showed you that you can create an announcement when you deploy the test. I actually strongly recommend that you go and edit that announcement to include a link to where the assignment is. What I'm going to do is…
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