Assessments and Tests
Assessment Types | Assessment Settings | Forms | Questions
Assessment Types
Check student knowledge and understanding with Blackboard Assessments!
Assignments
Assignments allow you to assess student knowledge alongside course content material, making them easily accessible to all students. You can create assignments manually or enlist the help of the AI Design Assistant to help generate assignment prompts.
- Create Assignments
- Manage Assignments (Edit, Reorder, and Delete)
- Group Assignments
Tests
Tests are used to formally evaluate student learning in Blackboard Ultra. You can manually create tests by building questions and question banks directly in Blackboard or by importing questions and banks from previous courses or assessments.
- Create Tests
- Manage Tests (Add, Edit, Reorder, and Delete Test and Test Questions)
Assessment Settings
Customize assessment settings. From the Settings panel, you can edit the Details and Information pane, prohibit late submissions, prohibit new attempts after the due date, adjust Presentation Options, and more. For more information on customizing Assessment settings, see Blackboard's Assessment Settings help articles.
Forms
Forms are designed to collect student feedback rather than evaluate performance. Forms support a variety of question types, including:
- Essay questions
- Likert questions
- Multiple Choice questions
- True/False questions
- Text responses
- Uploaded questions/files from local and cloud storage
For more information on creating and using forms in your course, see the Forms support article.
Questions
Blackboard offers a diverse array of question types that you can use in tests, assignments, and forms. Selecting the appropriate question type can help you assess the level of your students' understanding.
- Calculated Formula Questions
- Calculated Numeric Questions
- Essay Questions
- Extra Credit Questions
- Fill in Multiple Blanks Questions
- Fill in the Blank Questions
- Hotspot Questions
- Jumbled Sentence Questions
- Likert Questions
- Matching Questions
- Multiple Answer Questions
- Multiple Choice Questions
- True/False Questions
You can choose to reuse questions from existing tests, assignments, or question banks within your course. Questions may also be copied over from previous courses
For step-by-step instructions on how to reuse questions in your course, see the Reuse Questions help article.
Use the Align with Goals feature in Blackboard Ultra to help you connect questions to course or institutional goals. When questions are aligned, students can view the associated goals alongside the assessment, helping them understand how individual questions support their learning objectives.
Review question analytics in Blackboard Ultra. Question analytics help you evaluate the effectiveness of your assessment questions.
With question analytics, you can run reports on specific assessments. See the average score and average time spent on each question. Then, Blackboard Ultra will assign a quality rating of good, fair, or poor for questions. These insights can help you refine questions to improve future assessments.