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Using new and improved assessments

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Using new and improved assessments

Service Pack 8 and 9 introduce some new or improved assessment tools and features and we are going to talk about three of them in this movie; automated re-grading of assessments, timed assessments, and negative marking. Let's start with automated re-grading. Let's say I give my students a Blackboard test, the students have submitted their answers and then I discover that one of the questions has an incorrect right answer or point value. I want to drop that question or give full credits to everyone, change point value or even correct the answer. In previous versions of Blackboard, I would have to go into the grade center, open each student's assessment attempt and manually fix each students test one by one. Service Pack 8, Service Pack 9, they fix that. To fix a test question in a test you've already deployed, the students have already answered it, just edit the test and they are actually a couple of ways to do it. Honestly, the easiest way to do it, is just go to where the test has…

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