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Using EXCEL to upload multiple choice questions test

Fotios Begklis — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:09:25 GMT

Hi,

I've managed to upload MCQ tests using an EXCEL document. The options I can set are quite limited and I would like to find out if it is possible to add extra parameters/variables, such as individual feedback, random order, partial marking etc on the EXCEL document. Something like an MCQ batch processing basically.

Many thanks

Fotis

missing courses after migration

Dhushan Ramduth — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:55:42 GMT

Good day ,

After migrating a WebCt environment to 9.1, it was noticed that some of the courses are missing that was scheduled to moved over. Is there a way we can correct this or do we have to manually move the missing courses over?

Regards,

how to limit the number of choices permitted in multi-answer questions

Laurine Hurley — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:38:12 GMT

Hi all

we are having a problem with multi-answer questions.....

We have a question in a test, with (say) 9 answers, of which 3 are correct. Problem is, students are able to select all 9 options, so guaranteeing the mark. We can't give -ve for an answer as the teacher wishes to give partial credit. Is there any way of restricting the number of choices a student can make to 3 (in this instance)?

The Multi-choice won't allow more than one answer so that thought died at birth.

thanks very much!

Blackboard Journals

Michele Bioletti — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:24:18 GMT

We have Blackboard 9.1 SP10. We are using Blackboard Journals but are having an issue in that students are pasting into their Journal text box but when they press submit, it is not submitting for some students. We think the issue is that there are too many characters from the Word document that they are pasting into their Journal entry, for the students whose entry will not submit. Our workaround has been for them to attach a Word file but that is not ideal.

Can you tell me what the maximum number of characters that are allowed in the Journal entry box for each student and also the text box entry box for lecturers when they make a comment?

It would also be good if there was a document which gave all the field sizes for each Text box component.

Michele Bioletti

SCORM Quiz

Doug Mattson — Tue, 21 May 2013 02:20:25 GMT

I want to update a SCORM quiz without having to delete the quiz from Bb. Is this possible? We found an error in the quiz and just want to update it because students are already accessing it. Or do I have to delete the entire quiz and it's related columns in Grade Center and re-import the zipped quiz?

Doug

Know Issues - Opinion of Microsoft 365 Link vs. Collaborate

Allison Hamilton — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:29:53 GMT

Can anyone tell me some Pros and Cons of using Microsoft 365 Link with Bb 9.1 SP 11? I have a purchasing manager telling me that it will work vs. Collaborate and I would just like to know if the integration will work if so how well, etc.

Thanks

Allison

Cannot delete a module I created in the Tabs and Modules section of admin panel

Chris Ash — Tue, 21 May 2013 09:31:05 GMT

Hello All /(Mike)

I have been tidying up the module list in Blackboard by deleting unwanted modules. Some have a check box next to them to delete and I assumed the others were all Blackboard specific and could not be deleted. Then I saw that one that I created didn't have the checkbox next to it.

The module in question is a simple HTML type module with information in basic text. I don't know why BB won't let me delete it. I have tried changing the settings for the module (making it available/unavailable etc.) but nothing seems to change it.

Does anybody know why it might not let me delete it like I did all the other modules made at the same time in the same way? Could it be that it wasn't created by me specifically as I requested my other administrator to create it for me?

Please help as I am a bit picky about being tidy.

Thank you

Chris

Tools in Bb for creating af choice based "roster"

Bo Luders — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:46:05 GMT

Hello

IS anyone familiar with a tool inside Bb that could be used to ask the students for their choices regarding which topics they want to follow?

I am aware that one could use self-enrollment to courses but I am interested if there are any other possibilities.

What I would like is a Kind of roster split into as an example 3 different choice:

Do you want?:

1) Sports

2) Music

3) Drama

I was thinking if a survey, assignment or anything else could do it - but haven't figured out anything smart.

Kind regards

"student view" in sp 12 ?

Amy Chapman — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:06:34 GMT

I was under the impression that there would be a native feature in SP 12 that would enable instructors to change views to see what a class would look like for different roles (e.g., a "student view" or an "auditor view.") Is this the case, or will a feature such as this appear in a later service pack?

(BTW, I am not referring to any of the 3rd party building blocks that emulate a student view).

Thanks for your help

create another group in an existing group set in blackboard

chua pm — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:01:50 GMT

Hi,

I'd create group set of self-enroll. But now I wanted to add another group into this existing group set.

Can it be done?

Thanks in advanced

how to display items in a folder in 2 columns

Elizabeth Pachella — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:12:17 GMT

One faculty member accidentally created a content folder with items that are displaying side by side. It's causing the text to be hidden. I don't know how he created the side-by-side column format. I don't know how to get the text to display, because the usual triangle on the right side of the component does not appear. Has anyone seen this before?

Video Everywhere

Michael Baione — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:52:53 GMT

Since our institution does not have access to YouTube, is it possible to you our own video system? Basically, does this have to point to YouTube or can we use another video source that is on our own servers?

Announcements and the My Blackboard page

Jennifer Fox — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:10:29 GMT

Is there any way to NOT show an announcement for a particular class on the students' My Blackboard page in the My Courses channel? (I have an instructor who has posted a REALLY long announcement inside his course on the course entry page, and he does not want it to show on the My Blackboard page...only within the course.)

Thank you!!

Student Images

paul.dixon@cityofbristol.ac.uk — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39:55 GMT

Hi. We currently use the Blackboard Snapshot to update our Blackboard data.

I have been looking through the Advanced Data Integration Manual and I cannot find how we are able to upload student images, in addition to our student account data.

We are not planning to use the new cloud service yet!

If anyone has any information regarding the above I would be very grateful if you could get back to me.

Many thanks

Paul.

Paul Dixon
City of Bristol College

Institutional Branding and multilingual sourcing for Blackboard

Steven Murray — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:06:26 GMT

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If we were to share a domain between one group of schools (English-speaking) and another group (Spanish-speaking), can Spanish courses and English courses exist in the same domain if we were to make use of the Institutional Branding functionality? If so, what would the setup process entail?

Environment: Bb Learn 9.1.110082.0
Products: Course Delivery, Community Engagement, Content Management

Thanks.
Steve

Blank an option for fill-in-the-blank?

Laura Little — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:36 GMT

Dear Drs. C,

I got this interesting question from a physics/chemistry instructor:

Also, is there a way to have the correct answer be a blank or a space? I’ve tried pattern match using [], [ ] and [&nbsp], but none work.

When I asked her for a use case, she provided this one:

In a chemical formula, a subscript of 1 is "understood" and isn't written, but I want to give them a blank to fill to let them make a mistake if they don't understand. Same reasoning for a coefficient of 1 in a chemical equation.

Do you have any ideas for her?

Thanks so much!

Laura

Old courses showing

Callie DiFino — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:11:36 GMT

Hello,

I am taking one online class this summer, but an old course I took last summer is showing up on blackboard and saying it is for this summer and the teacher even sent me a couple emails as if I were registered for the class this semester.

Deleting Columns in Gradebook

Mark Trezza — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:46:29 GMT

Hi. Ok, so I have archived and restored my course with the help of my local IT person on campus. Great.

Now, for whatever reason, I have duplicates of items in need of a grade in my current semester. Students can see the possible assignments, duplicated, even if I 'hide selected columns' from the Grade Center(manage column organization). As I hide columns, I don't see them in my Full Grade Center view. However, I just logged on as an enrolled student who was in my office, and there they are: two Ch. 1 quizzes; two chapter 1 discussion board assignments.....even though I have 'hidden them', I suppose only from my view.

For the life of me, I can't seem to locate a 'delete column' function to permanently delete these old columns.

Is there one? Where? I reviewed a related post, but it didn't seem to answer my question.

Thanks..............

Question set and scores

Derek Blair — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:57:26 GMT

I noticed when you use a question set for tests, the question set requires you to change the points allocated to the questions. If you have allocated the points to the questions why does the question set require you to allocate points again? Now you say if they are worth one point then just allocate the question set to one point also. In most cases this is O.K. but if you have a question that has multiple points then this gets changed when you use this question in a questions set. An example would be, you have questions that can give you 2 points if you get both the correct answer. All other questions are worth 1 point. Now if you try to use the 2 point question in a question set with many 1 point questions you have a problem. Either you up all questions to 2 points or the 2 point question becomes 1 point with a possible point value of .5 if you get half the answer wrong.

Is there any way to change this?

Blackboard Assignments not displaying in new calendar

Jeff Scott — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:30:34 GMT

Our blackboard servers were upgraded to v11 over the weekend. In 2 of 3 of my courses all the assignments show up in the new calendar. I have one class where the assignment do not display in the calender. I have tried change the due dates and creating new assignments. Nothing I have tried makes the class assignments display in the calender. Anyone have any suggestions?

Grade Center-My Grades Alignment

James Harrold — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:13 GMT

This should be simple but it is hard. I have rearranged the column order of my grade center manually using "manage columns" yet the student view in "my grades" orders them in another way (by type of assessment, then alpha name). I simply want the "my grades" view for the students match the order in which I have organized my columns in the instructor's grade center.

Discussion Board

Kimberly Nelson — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:56:02 GMT

I submitted my discussion board assignment and responded to two of my peers on May 4th but my academic coach is stating that she cannot find them and has given me a zero for this assignment. Is there anyway to retrieve them to prove that the assignment was completed and turned in on time?

No valid email address: Instructor

Matthew Fillo — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:47:32 GMT

We are trying to outline the process for self-enrollment, but we are getting a "No valid email address: Instructor." error message when a student browses the course catalog and clicks on Enroll in the course action link.

The settings allow students to send email requests to the instructor.

The instructor email address is set properly.

The student email address is set properly.

They are not the same email address.

Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Kind regards,

Matthew P. Fillo

e-Learning Systems Administrator

Office of Information Technology

One Waterfront Plaza

P.O. Box 6860

Morgantown, WV 26506

304-293-4906

Not allow assignment submission

Kathleen Dignan — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:11:50 GMT

I have an assignment open and when i hit the "browse my computer" to attach a file and then click the file i want to upload, the new window closes but it does not attach the file. I have done this multiple times and still nothing. It will also not let me hit the submit, save, or cancel buttons. After I press those, nothing happens. I just remain on the assignment's screen.

Retrieving Drafts

Jackie Bissonnette — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:54:06 GMT

I prepared a class assignment and instead of clicking he submit button I clicked the save as draft button. However, I could not figure out how to retrieve the draft. I had to re-write the document but, for the future, would appreciate knowing where my draft went!

Jackie