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This workshop will focus on instructors who have used Blackboard before but want to take advantage of the 

assessment features Blackboard has available. 

Assessments

Types of Assessments

Assignments

Safe Assignments

Tests/Quizzes/Surveys

Discussion Forums

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Outline

Assignments

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Option A

Add all assignments to one Content Area

Assignments

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Option BAdd assignments to different Content Areas,in close proximity to related course content

Assignments

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Option CAll assignments are created in one location, such as the Assignments Content Area.

Course Links to assignments are also added in other Content Areas, folders, or Learning Modules

Safe Assignments

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Works like regular assignments; however, you will be able to access anOriginality Report

Tests and Pools

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Create first, then deploySurveys function thesame as Tests, however; no feedback or grades are associated with survey results

Tests and Pools

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Question Types

Tests and Pools

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Question Types

Tests and Pools

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Question Types

Discussion Board

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Forum Setup

Discussion Board

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Resourceswww.fordham.edu/ftcResourcesUsing Discussion Boards

Blogs, Journals, & Wikis

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Blogs, Journals, & Wikis

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First create, then link as a Contentor Navigation item

Students prefer Blogs, Journals and Wikis to Discussion Boards

Blogs

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Entries and grades are separate to each student

Individual to all students

All student entries are listed together when entering the blog, and all students get that same grade

Course

designates ungraded entries

Blogs

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than the Discussion Board, and they’re chronological

Blogs are less structured

Entries can be saved as draftsand posted later

Journals

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Private, unless set to“Permit course users to view journal”

Entries that have not been viewed by the Instructor have a icon by them

Wikis

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When a student is updating a wiki page, the rest of the students are locked out of it until it is released