Choosing an assessment tool and creating assessments

Staff guide: How to add assessment to your Blackboard course. What information you need to provide to students, and which supported platforms to use.

Staff guide: How to add an assignment and an overview of settings and options.

Staff Guide: What are Blackboard Tests, how and when to use them, and how they are different from Blackboard Assignments?

Staff guide: Essay questions require students to type an answer in a text box, and you need to grade these questions manually. Read this guide carefully so you are aware of some of the issues you might encounter if you decide to include Essay questions in an assignment.

Staff guide: Creating, managing and marking Discussions and Journals in Blackboard Ultra.

Staff Guide: How to add and edit a direct link to a Turnitin assignment submission.

Staff guide: Use the setting "Collect submissions offline" to create a Blackboard Assignment with a rubric and due date. This is useful for when you set assignments offline or on an alternative platform but would like the students to be able to view the due dates, marks and feedback in Blackboard.

Staff Guide: How do mark schemas and rubrics work in Blackboard Ultra? A rubric is a scoring tool you can use to evaluate graded work.

Staff guide: How to create assessment in Blackboard Ultra when you intend to release feedback but no overall marks to students. The example in this guide is for a Blackboard Assignment but you could also apply this to a Blackboard Test, marked Journal or Discussion.