Course Management System (Online@UT)
CMS 113: Online@UT's Assessment Tools
Valuable Links
Blackboard Quiz Pool Generator
Developed by a colleague at Wytheville Community College in Virginia. To create a Blackboard test you have to click multiple buttons and fill out multiple forms for each question. This is a tedious time-consuming process if you are building huge quizzes. Fill out one form using a simple markup technique and get the quiz generated for you automatically!
Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide
The Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide (FLAG) web site was constructed by the College Level One Team, as a resource for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) instructors.
AAHE: 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning
American Association for Higher Education: the famous nine principles.
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.
You don't have to know any Java and the tool is feature-rich. But it doesn't integrate with the gradebook.
FAQs
These FAQs from the University of Newcastle in Australia address issues dealing with Blackboard's assessment and gradebook features.