Using Quizzes > Making Quizzes Available

To make a quiz available you can browse to the specific content are of your site where you'd like your students to see this quiz. At the top of the content area click the button labeled "Add Test".

You will be prompted to select from any of the tests that you have created in your site. Highlight the test you wish to deploy and then click "Submit". After you have added it you will be prompted to specify options of availability, or modify the test. If you'd like to allow your students to begin taking it immediately click the link labeled "Modify the test options" and adjust the availability settings accordingly. If you'd like to add it to the content area without making it available immediately you can always browse back to it after adding it and click the button labeled "Modify" to access this menu again.

When making a test available you are given several different options as to how you'd like this quiz to appear to students. You are prompted for "Availability Settings" that relate to when and if the quiz itself will appear to students, "Test Feedback Settings" that relate to what types of correct or incorrect feedback students will receive after taking the exam, and "Test Presentation Settings" that relate to the actual way in which questions are displayed to students while they take the quiz.

**You can only deploy tests that have not yet been deployed - if you think you are missing a test go back into the test manager to view all tests currently in your Blackboard site and find out where it is deployed.**

**PLEASE NOTE** Blackboard 6 does allow students to login in and preview a test, log out of the system, and then log back in again and take the assessment. If you'd like to prevent this specify the availailability options as follows - "Don't Allow Multiple Attempts", "Presentation Mode: Question", and "Prohibit Backtracking". Use this in conjunction with one dummy question as the first question. This will limit students ability to see any of the quiz until they actually begin taking it .

After you have deployed a test students can immediately begin taking it and their scores and results are appended automatically to the on-line gradebook. After students have taken the quiz you can either set the link to the quiz itself back to unavailable in the content area.

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Q: How do I make a quiz available so that students can begin taking it?

Log in to your site and browse to the content area where you'd like students to see the link. Click on the button labeled "Add Test". Select the test that you'd like to add and then click submit. After you have added the test click on the link labeled "Modify Test Options" and set the test itself to available. For more information on setting the availability and feedback options please view the "Quizzes" section.

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