If you have transferred a Blackboard 5 or 6 course to Blackboard 7 and now want to make a Blackboard quiz available to students, you must use a different tool than the "Quiz Manager" that you used in the Blackboard 5. Blackboard 5 "quizzes" are now referred to as "tests" in Blackboard 6 or 7 and must be made available ("deployed") within a location of your choosing in the Assignments or Course Documents sections. The instructor of a course titled CUL 112 Nutrition for Food Service Professionals, for example, created a folder titled "Module One: Introduction to Nutrition" in the Assignments section of her course. Assume you are that instructor and want to place the test for your first module in that folder.

1. If you are not already in the Control Panel, click the "Control Panel" link on the navigation frame in your course:

   

2. Then click the "Assignments" link to enter the Assignments section if you want to deploy the test in a folder in that section.

   

3. When the "Assignments" section appears, click the link to the folder where you will deploy the test:

   

4. The "Module One" page will then appear:

   

5. When the "Module One" page appears, click the "Test" icon near the top of the page, as shown in the above image. The "Add Test" page will appear. When the "Add Test" page appears, you will have two options, either to create a test or to select an existing test. In this case, you will select "Quiz 1" by clicking on that name of the test that you have previously created in Blackboard 5. You will then click the "Submit" button:

   

6. You will then receive notice that the test has been added:

   

7. The next page that appears gives you links to two options: to modify the test itself or make the test available. Click the second link to "Modify the test options":

   

8. After you click the "Modify the test options" link, the "Test Options" page will appear, where you will need to complete four sections:
   1. Test Information
   2. Test Availability
   3. Test Feedback
   4. Test Presentation
   
   
9. In the "Test Information" section, you should accept the default "No" and not launch the test in its own window unless your test contains images or other features that make it too large to be displayed inside the Blackboard course.

   

10. Scroll down to Step 2, "Test Availability." You should check the radio button "Yes" beside the question, "Do you want to make the link visible?" so that students can take the test. If you want students to complete the test in one time period without being able to save the test and return to work on it later, check the "Force Completion" option. If you want the students to complete the test within a set period such as one hour, select the time. Students who exceed the time limit will not receive a grade until you check the test in your gradebook in the "Assessment" section of the Control Panel to determine if the amount exceeded was too much to count the test. If you want the test to be available for only a certain number of days or time within one day, check the "display after" and "display until" boxes and select the days and time. Set a password only if you are certain to remember the password. This option is best used in classroom settings when you do not want students to take the test until you are present in the room or in a lab setting where students are taking tests under supervision.

    

11. In Step 3, "Test Feedback," choose the "Feedback Mode." you will set the type of feedback that students will receive when they complete and submit the test. One option you have is to make only scores available to students until all students have completed the quiz. Then you can return to this section to modify the test options and make the "detailed results," "correct answers," or "feedback" available so that students will receive more detailed information about their test results. However, if you want the students to know whether their answers were correct or incorrect (but not the correct answer for the questions they missed) click the radio button in front of the "Detailed Results" option. This option is recommended for your course if you permit students to take the test more than once.

    

12. In Step 4 you will determine the presentation of the test. Choose "all at once" so that students can scroll back and forth in the test to check their answers. Use the "one-at-a-time" option only when you want students to answer a question completely before proceeding without being permitted to check their answers. Be sure to check "randomize" if you want the test question order to be different for each student. Then click the "Submit" button to deploy (make available) the test.

    

13. You will then be returned to the "Modify Test" page. If you then click "OK," you will be returned to the Control Panel, or you can click the link to the course at the top of the page.

    

14. If you later want to hide this quiz from view, you can click the "Modify" button beside the name of the quiz, and then choose the option to not make the test visible (although all student grades will still remain in their and your gradebooks). Then click the "OK" button to return to the Control Panel or click on the link to your course at the top of the screen to return to the home page of the course.