Test Development Tips and Tricks for Instructors on Blackboard - George Brown College

Test options recommendations

Before deploying your test, please review the following recommendations:
**_Test Information_**
**Content Link Description**
As part of the description of your test, it is recommended to include:
– Content that the assessment covers.
– Types of questions and how many they will have.
– Time limit.
– Indicate if students have one or multiple attempts.
– Due date and the start and end dates and times.
**Note:** For a better system performance, it is recommended **NOT opening the test in a new window**.
 
**_Test availability_**
– Only make test available when the test is ready.
– It is recommended to add a new announcement for the test.
– **Multiple attempts**
– Choose multiple attempts if students need to reach a certain score or if you allow them to keep their highest score.
– If you enable multiple attempts, indicate how many attempts they have and which score that will be considered.
– If you choose one attempt (the typical selection), verify multiple attempts is disabled.
– **Avoid force completion. **This setting locks a student out if the connection breaks for any reason (e.g., close browser, leave test page, lose power, lose connection). Students must contact you to explain the issue and request a new attempt.
– **Setting a test timer. **Indicate the duration of a test and how many minutes they have to complete the test.
– **Autosubmit.** If you want student to continue after time expires, select off. Otherwise, select on.
– **Test visibility to students**. Choose when you want to make your test visible to your students.
– 11:59pm is the end of the day.
– 12:00am is the start of the day.
– **Password protection.** You might make the test accessible with a password if:
– You want to do a try the test using the student preview mode.
– As a second layer of protection.
 
**Support**
– [How to Create an Online Test (Full Step by Step Guide)](https://georgebrowncollege.h5p.com/content/1291128460664996028) (*a university made resource)