Test Results and Access Logs

A Grade Center column is automatically created anytime you deploy a test within Blackboard, and Blackboard will automatically score any objective questions (i.e., multiple choice, true/false) based on the answers you provide when you create the test.  If the entire test is objective, the test grade will automatically be added to the Grade Center as each student completes the exam.  As an instructor, you will need to view the results for each test to be able to manually grade any subjective questions (i.e., short answer, essay, file response) and then save and post the test scores. 

Tests that need to be graded can be accessed from either the Needs Grading page or the Full Grade Center.  To learn more about grading tests, which can include options to grade anonymously, grade all responses to a specific question, and give full credit for all responses to a question, see Blackboard Help's official Grade Tests page.

From the Grade Center, you can also view statistical information, such as what percentage of students chose each multiple choice answer within each question.  To do so drop down from the top of the Grade Center column for a particular test, and select Attempts Statistics.  Learn more at Blackboard Help's official Test and Survey Results page.  You can also run an Item Analysis on a test to view data about overall test performance as well as data about individual questions.  Learn more at Blackboard Help's official Item Analysis page, as well as by viewing the following video:

Additionally, you can view a test attempt's Access Log for each individual student's test attempt to learn more about how much time a student spent on each individual question, as well as their start/end times for the test.  To view the access log:

• enter an individual student's test attempt
• expand the Test Information session by clicking the arrow to the left of it
• click the Access Log button

Learn more at Blackboard Help's official Resolve Student Issues with Tests page.

For additional assistance with Blackboard tests, visit the Tests, Surveys, and Pools Blackboard Help page, or . . . contact the TLC at tlc@icc.edu or (309) 694-8908, or visit us in room 240A on the East Peoria campus.

Later this week our Blackboard Users' Group will meet in the TLC on Wednesday, March 2 at 12noon or Thursday, March 3 at 3pm - participants may attend either session.

Our March blog series will focus on Web Content and will include topics about Mashups, embedded content, and Video Everywhere.