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.
Table of Contents
- Create Assignments
- Group Assignments
- Create Tests
- Reuse Questions
- Upload questions from a file
- Assessment results settings
- Grant Accommodations
- Grant Exceptions
- Grading & Submissions
- Allow Multiple attempts
- Submission Receipt
- Student Attachments
- Download Assignments
- Collect Submissions Offline
- Grade with SafeAssign
- Forms
Additional Resources
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Create an assignmentAdding a test or quizSafeAssign🏴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.
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
Group Assignments
You can create a group assessment and release it to one or more groups in your course.
- Peer Review allows students to evaluate their peers
- Conversations appear only with the relevant content
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.
Presentation Options
- Display one question at a time
- Prohibit backtracking
- Randomize questions, answers, pages
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.
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
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.
- Grade category
- Attempts allowed
- Grade using - points, percentage, letter
- Maximum points
- Anonymous grading - text and files only
- Evaluation options
- Parallel grading 2 graders per student
- Peer review
- Post assessment grades automatically
Additional Tools
- Access Code - add a layer of security
- Time limit - add submission rules
- Use grading rubric - add a scoring tool
- Goals & standards - align with goals
- Assigned groups - create a group assignment
- Originality Report - check for plagiarism
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
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.
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
Student Attachments
You can add an Essay Question and allow students full access to the text editor including adding an attachment.
You can also Allow students to add content at the end of an assessment.
Download Assignments
You can download all or selected submissions to review offline. Usernames are included automatically in the file names for easy identification.
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.
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.
When you enable the Originality Report, an Originality column is added to Submissions.
- Originality Report - Instructor View (Original and Ultra)
- Originality Report - Student View (Original and Ultra)
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.
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.