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Create Assessments in Learn Ultra

You can create assignments and tests from the same assessment interface in a Learn Ultra Course. For an assignment, you may instruct students to submit a file for a grade. For a test, you may add a series of questions for students to answer.

🏴This information applies only to Blackboard Learn Ultra.

Create Assignments

You can create assignments along with course content so students can submit their work. You can add text to provide instructions and add questions to create your assignment.

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Setting options are enabled or disabled based on whether you add at least one question to the assessment. NEW: "No due date" option for Tests and Assignments.

Settings

Due date

  • Prohibit late submissions In progress attempts will be submitted automatically at the due date and time
  • Prohibit new attempts after due date Students can't start new attempts once the due date and time has passed

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Group Assignments

You can create a group assessment and release it to one or more groups in your course.

Create Tests

You can create tests along with the content students need as they prepare. You can also control presentation options and assessment results settings.

Select the + plus icon to create a test, add instructions, and select question types.

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Presentation Options

  • Display one question at a time
  • Prohibit backtracking
  • Randomize questions, answers, pages
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Reminder: Test settings are enabled only after you add a question.

Reuse Questions

You can create a collection of questions that are stored for repeated use or as question pools to ensure each student receives a different version of the assessment.

Upload questions from a file

You can now author questions offline in a text file then upload the file into a test to edit and use just like any other question.

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Question files must be a tab-delimited .TXT file and should not exceed 250 records. For more details on formatting requirements, please review  Upload Questions.

Supported question types include:

  • Multiple choice / multiple answer
  • True / False
  • Essay
  • Fill in the Blank
  • Fill in Multiple Blanks
  • Numeric response
  • Matching

Assessment results settings

  • Submission View
  • Automated Question Feedback
  • Question Scores
  • Correct Answers
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Grant Accommodations

You can grant individual accommodations to help students progress in your course.

  • Due dates
  • Time limits

Grant Exceptions

You can give an individual student an exception on a specific test or assignment.

  • Additional attempts
  • Extended access

Grading & Submissions

You can edit Settings (gear icon) to select a grading options.

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  • Grade category
  • Attempts allowed
  • Grade using - points, percentage, letter
  • Maximum points
  • Anonymous grading - text and files only
  • Evaluation options
  • Post assessment grades automatically

Additional Tools

Allow Multiple attempts

You can allow students to submit more than one attempt from Assignment Settings. Multiple attempts change how the assignment's final grade is calculated. You can choose how you want to calculate the final grade:

  • Average of all attempts
  • First attempt with a grade
  • Attempt with highest grade
  • Last attempt with a grade
  • Attempt with lowest grade
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The Grade attempts setting determines how the final grade is automatically calculated, but you have the option to override the grade. Each attempt is subject to the due date you set for the assignment. If a student submits an attempt after the due date, the attempt is marked late. Attempts submitted before the deadline are shown as on time.

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You can only override the final grade, not the grades for each attempt. You can't allow multiple attempts on a group assignment or when you collect submissions offline. More on grading an assignment with multiple attempts

Submission Receipt

A confirmation number is automatically generated for each assessment attempt.

  • Search for a submission
  • Details include the assessment name, grade, number of attempts, file size, and date and time stamp
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Learn more about Test options, automated feedback, security and Grading tests with time limits.

Student Attachments

You can add an Essay Question and allow students full access to the text editor including adding an attachment.

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You can also Allow students to add content at the end of an assessment.

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Download Assignments

You can download all or selected submissions to review offline. Usernames are included automatically in the file names for easy identification.

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Keep the following in mind when downloading assignments:
  • If you download more than one submission, the files will be zipped with each submission saved as a separate file.
  • If a learner submitted multiple attempts, the downloaded ZIP file will contain all files for that learner.
  • If the learner submitted using the text editor, the submission will be downloaded as a TXT file.

Collect Submissions Offline

You can create assessments that appear on the Course Content page that don't require learners to upload submissions.You can add instructions, files, a rubric, and goals so learners can prepare for the offline work.

Grade with SafeAssign

You can use SafeAssign to check for potential plagiarism in student submissions for both assignments and tests.

Open Assignment Settings or Test Settings in a new or existing assessment.

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You can enable the SafeAssign Originality Report any time, even after students have started their submissions, but submissions are only checked when SafeAssign is enabled. Submissions received before you enable the setting aren't checked with SafeAssign.

Enable SafeAssign:

  • Allow students to view the Originality Report
  • Exclude submissions from the institutional and Global Reference Databases

If you allow multiple attempts, you can view each Originality Report next to the corresponding attempt.

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SafeAssign recognizes multiple attempts for an individual test as submitted by the same student for the same test. SafeAssign doesn't check the contents of the current attempt against content from previous submissions.

When you enable the Originality Report, an Originality column is added to Submissions.

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SafeAssign results are hidden while anonymous grading is enabled. After you post grades and names are shown, you can view the SafeAssign results and the Originality Reports.

Forms

By default, a Form is not graded. Questions in a form don’t have correct or incorrect answers. Some instructors may choose to grade a Form to encourage participation, in this case, you must manually enter a grade for each submission.

The following items are supported in a Form:

  • essay question
  • Likert question
  • multiple choice question
  • true/false question
  • text
  • local file
  • file from cloud storage
  • page break
  • View Form submissions by student or by question.
  • Download results from the Gradebook and Submissions page as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file.
  • Submissions for an ungraded Form appear as “Submitted” in the Gradebook grid view.
  • Graded Forms display the manually entered grade or appropriate grading status.

A Survey created in the Original course view converts/copies to a Form in the Ultra course view.

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Only questions and options are supported in a Form convert/copy. After conversion, an exception suggests that instructors review their questions.

Likert questions support quantitative measure of opinions and attitudes, responses often range from strongly disagree  to strongly agree. The scale range defaults to 3 options, with suggested labeling for options 1 and 3 as strongly disagree and strongly agree. Instructors may select a range of 3, 5, or 7 and label the poles as desired. Instructors may also choose to include a "not applicable" option.

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A Likert question in a Survey created in the Original course view converts/copies to a Form in the Ultra course view. The scale range default is 3.