Assessing Learners & Feedback – Mini Guide

Below are a number of Blackboard features that will get you started assessing your students in different ways. They represent the basics and should be thought of only as first steps. Click through to the related section for more tutorials.

Grade Centre

• Grade Center Columns
• Editing how a score is displayed in Grade Centre
• Entering Grades
• Including Comments With a Grade Entry
• Customize Grade Center
• Uploading or Downloading Grade Center Items for Working Offline
• Viewing Grade Details

Taken from: Grade Center and Grading

Assignments

• Creating Assignments
• Edit and Manage Assignments
• Inline Grading

Taken from: Assignments and Grading Assignments

Self and Peer Assessment

• Creating a New Self and Peer Assessment
• Adding a Question to an Assessment
• Adding Criteria to a Question
• Completing an Assessment
• Monitoring Assessment Submissions
• Monitoring the Evaluations
• Viewing the Assessment Results

Taken from: Self and Peer Assessment

Tests

• Creating Tests and Surveys
• Deploying Tests and Surveys
• Question Types
• Grading Tests

Taken from: Tests, Surveys, and Pools

Blogs

• Creating a Blog
• Grading Blogs

Taken from: Blogs

Discussion Boards

• Overview and interface
• Creating Forums in the Discussion Board
• Creating Threads in the Discussion Board
• Grading Discussion Board Participation

Taken from: Discussion Boards

Journals

• Creating a Journal
• Grading Journals

Taken from: Journals

 

Alternatively if your assessment is text based and you would like to mark on-line, you may wish to use Turnitin.