How to Take a Assessment Online
When it's time to take a quiz, start by clicking on the Assessments icon on your course menu.
(Note that your instructor may have chosen to customize the name or icon, so they might be slightly different than what you see here.)
This will show the Assessments list, which will display the names of various quizzes, exams and surveys.
Next to the assessment you will see other information pertinent to it including Start date and time, End date and time.
Every assessment that is listed may not be available. If your instructor has made an assessment available, the title will be a hyperlink.
Important: It is very important that you wait to click on the hyperlink until you are ready to take the quiz. Otherwise it will be counted as one of your attempts to take the quiz, even if you don't even look at it.
Let's assume you are ready, and you click on the hyperlink. In this course, this is what you would see.
You'll click on Begin Assessment.
For each question, use the Down Arrow key to slowly scroll down the left frame until you get to the answer that you think is correct.
Select an answer by clicking on the circle next to your choice. Afterwards, be sure to click Save Answer. This lets the computer know that you've chosen an answer. This will send your answer to the server so it will be recorded in case you get disconnected.
Note that an assessment can contain the following types of questions:
- Multiple Choice:
- students select either one or multiple correct answers to a question.
- Matching:
- match items in two columns.
- Calculated:
- students answer a mathematical question.
- Short Answer:
- students enter a word or short phrase, which is then matched against the
possible answers.
- Paragraph:
- students answer in a longer essay-type format. This type of question must
be graded by the Instructor.
Wondering how you'll know your answer has been registered? Blackboard provides a handy method so you don't need to be in doubt.
When you answer a question the yellow ball located under the question number will change to a blue checkmark. If you have answered a question and then decide to change your saved answer the symbol under the question number will change to an "!"
Please note that you should wait for the yellow ball to change to a checkmark before answering the next question.
If your quiz is timed you will have a count-down timer that will let you know how much time you have remaining before you have to submit the quiz for grading.
It is possible to change any of your answers before you click the Finish button. If you do change an answer, be sure to click the Save Answer button again to register your new answer with the computer.
Click on one of the Finish button on the screen when you're certain your answers are correct and you have finished the quiz.
When submitting an assessment you will receive a warning notice if there are any questions that have not been answered or saved.
If all questions have been answered when you click the "finish" button, a dialog box will pop up asking if you want to proceed. Click OK, and another dialog box will pop up to ask you if you want to submit the quiz for grading. Click ‘OK’.
You have successfully submitted your quiz. 
Looking at Quiz Results
Once you have submitted your quiz for grading, you may see the results if your instructor has set up the assessment to release the score immediately. Some instructors will wait to release quiz scores and answers until after the quiz deadline has passed. If this is the case, please proceed to the next section to find out how to view your quiz results.
Viewing Quiz Results from the Home Page
Step 1.
Click on the Assessments icon.
Step 2.
Look to the right of the assessment title you are interested in getting the results for. Click on the Action menu and select View Submission.
Step 3.
The next screen displays the and your grade if the score has been released.
Step 4.
To display a more detailed record of your quiz, click on a number in the Attempts column. If you have taken the quiz more than one time, you will see a number for each attempt.
The answer that you selected will be indicate by a gray checkmark next to the student response column. The correct answer will be indicated by a green checkmark in the 'Correct Answer' column. If there are several correct answers, the percentage in the 'Percent Value' column will be in listed for each answer.
If you selected the incorrect answer, the percentage in the ‘Percent Value’ column will be in red and the percentage for the correct answer will be in black.
Your score for the entire exam will be at the top of the page.
The instructor may make other information available to you. Other information you may see:
- Whether each question is correct or incorrect
- What the Correct Answer is
- Feedback for incorrect answers