Reuse questions

In the Ultra Course View, you can reuse questions and other content from all existing tests, assignments, and question banks in your course. You can also copy question banks from other courses and import questions into your course to add to your assessments.

On the Reuse Questions page, you can browse, preview, filter, and select questions created or imported into your course. You can view the questions, but you can’t make edits until you copy the questions to your assessment. You can also reuse other content you added to assessments, such as text blocks, files, images, and videos.

You can not reuse questions when these settings or conditions exist:

You’ve added a rubric to your assessment.

You’ve chosen to collect submissions offline.

Students have opened the assessment.

You can’t reuse text blocks or files if you chose to randomize questions.

Search for questions

Create a new test or open an existing one

Select the purple plus sign wherever you want to reuse questions or assessment content.

Select Reuse questions from the menu. The copied questions and content are inserted at this point in the assessment.

The information at the top of the panel shows how many total items appear to choose from. If you make selections in the Filter Criteria panel, the number appears above the panel next to Filter. Select the X to collapse the panel and increase the area to view content. Select Filter to open the panel. Note that on small devices, the Filter Criteria panel is closed by default.

Select the assessments, question banks, question types, and tags you want to browse. Empty sources, question types, or tags are filtered out. The Question Banks and Tags sections are only populated with you convert Original courses or import Original question pools or other resources. Text and files you added to your assessments appear in the Question Types section as Other.

In the Filter Criteria panel, you can perform a basic search by keyword. After you type one keyword, another field appears. Each applicable keyword may increase the number of results. Results include singular and plural forms of a word and tenses such as -ing and -ed. Partial word and contains logic won’t work with this basic search.

You can expand questions and content to view them. You can’t edit the content or the point values until you copy the items into an assessment. Select the check boxes for the questions and assessment content you want to copy. You can view how many items you’ve selected at the bottom of the screen.

Select Clear all to clear the check boxes in the Sources section. If you already chose some items to copy, those items are still ready to copy. In the active filter area, clear the check boxes for the questions and assessment content you no longer want to copy. You can also use Select all and Clear all to choose all and remove all questions.

Select Copy Questions. The questions and assessment content are copied to your test or assignment. In the assessment, you receive a notification: X questions copied successfully to the assessment.

You can edit the copies in your assessment without concern. Other assessments aren’t affected. Changes you make to one instance of the question or content aren’t reflected in the other instances. If you want changes to show in all instances, you must find and edit each copied instance.

Blackboard Ultra: How To Create A Test

On the Course Content page, select the purple plus sign (+) wherever you want to add a test. You can also expand or create a folder or learning module and add a test.
A small menu will pop up, select Create to open the Create Item panel
On the right side of the screen, The Create Item menu will pop up. Select Test. The New Test page will open where you can view the test settings.

When you create a test, a gradebook item is created automatically. A test’s score consists of the sum of all the questions’ points.

After you post test grades, students can view their scores on their grades pages or in the activity stream. They can also access a test, their submissions, your feedback, and their grades from the test link on the Course Content page and via the Gradebook.

The New Test page

There are 3 customizable components on the new test page:

add test content
control test visibility to students
apply test settings

Provide a descriptive title so students can easily find the test among your course content. On the Course Content page, the title appears as the link students select to view the materials. If you don’t add a title, “New Test” and the date appear in the content list. If you don’t add content, the test won’t appear on the Course Content page.

Adding Test Content

Select the plus sign to open the menu to add questions and more.

You can choose a question type, add a question pool, upload questions from a file or reuse questions and content from existing assessments. You can also add files and text, such as instructions for the test. You can also add files from cloud storage, such as OneDrive® and Google Drive™.

Once you’ve added a question to a test, you can choose if you want students to add additional content, like text, supporting files, or attachments. By default, this feature is turned on for your test. Toggle this feature off if you don’t want students to add additional content.

Test Settings

The right-hand side of the page outlines Test Settings. To choose and apply settings, select the Settings icon to open a new panel.

View accommodations. If any students in your course have accommodations, this number of students will appear in the in the Test Settings section. You can set accommodations for students and make them exempt from certain course requirements, such as test due dates and time limits. To modify accommodations, go to the Roster and access the student’s menu. You can also access it from the Submission page or Gradebook.

When choosing your settings, select the Save button at the bottom of the panel when you finish.

Details & Information

The section Details & Information provides options for test submission.

Provide a due date. Due dates appear on the calendar and in the activity stream. Late submissions appear with a Late label in the course gradebook. Encourage students to review what’s due now and what’s ahead so they can ask questions as soon as possible.

Prohibit late submissions. Enforce a hard deadline and prevent a late submission. In-progress and saved attempts will auto-submit at the due date. Students will receive a submission receipt email. Specified accommodations are still honored.

Prohibit new attempts after due date. Prevent students from beginning a new attempt after the due date. Specified accommodations are still honored.

Allow class conversations. If you allow class conversations, students can discuss the test with you and their classmates while the test is available. Students can contribute to the conversation before, during, and after the test. As the conversation develops, it appears only with the relevant test.

Collect submissions offline. You may want to grade student work that doesn’t require students to upload a submission. For example, you can add grades to your gradebook for oral presentations, science fair projects, acting performances, and artwork delivered in person.

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