Assignments & Tests

This section covers how to create, configure, and grade assignments and tests in Blackboard. The following links redirect to resources created by Blackboard.

• Assignments — the basics of creating and managing graded work that students submit

• Tests — the basics of building quizzes and exams

• Assessment Settings — the shared settings panel that controls due dates, attempts, timing, and presentation for both assignments and tests

• Formative Assessments — low-stakes or practice assessments that support learning without necessarily counting toward a grade

• Peer Review for Qualitative Peer Assessments — set up students to review and give feedback on each other's work

• Forms — ungraded forms for surveys, check-ins, or data collection

• Questions — question types and how to build them

• Download Assessments — export an assessment for offline use or record-keeping

• Print Assessments — generate a printable version of an assessment

• Create Assignments — step-by-step assignment setup

• Manage Assignments — edit, reorder, or remove existing assignments

• Group Assignments — assign work to student groups instead of individuals

• Create Tests — step-by-step test setup

• Watch a video about creating tests

• About the New Test page — orientation to the test-building interface

• Add questions to a test

• Test question generation — AI-assisted question generation within a test

• Align questions to goals — tie individual questions to learning outcomes or goals

• Extra credit — mark a question as extra credit

• Question Banks — store and reuse questions across a course

• Question Pools — draw a random subset of questions from a larger set

• Upload or Import Questions — bring in questions from an external file or another course

• Add files and text blocks to tests

• Add page breaks to tests

• Reorder questions, text, and files in a test

• Navigate the test interface — what students see when taking a test, from the instructor's setup view

• Tests and the activity stream — how test activity shows up in the course activity stream

• Details & Information — name, instructions, and due date

• Prohibit Late Submissions and New Attempts After Due Date

• Collect Submissions Offline — record a grade for work completed outside Blackboard

• Presentation Options — control question layout and pacing

• Grading & Submissions — attempts allowed, grading method, and anonymous grading

• Assessment Results — what and when students can see about their results

• Access Code — require a code to start the assessment

• Time Limit

• SafeAssign — originality checking for written submissions

• Access Submissions to Grade

• Attempt Logs — a record of a student's activity during an attempt

• Bb Annotate — mark up and comment on submitted documents

• Grade with Rubrics

• Grade Assessments With Flexible Grading — grade out of order or by question across all submissions

• Grade Group Assignments

• Grade Journals

• Grade Discussions

• Grade Multiple Attempts

• Override Grades

• Grant Exceptions and Exemptions — give an individual student extra time or attempts

• Submission Receipts — confirmation students receive after submitting

• Post Grades — release grades to students once ready