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Suggestions for successful Blackboard tests

//the below is taken and adapted from Blackboard Support.

• Avoid creating large exams involving many/complex questions and presented all at once.
• Consider breaking exams wtih 50 + questions into smaller exams taken in sequence instead.
• Large exams also create much more server load when submitting the final exam, which can lead to failures due to application overload when groups of users submit at the same time - so when taking large in-classroom exams, please stagger the submissions.
• Train users to save their attempt every 10-15 minutes (but avoid too-frequent saves, which overload the application).
• Avoid randomized display order for exams using question-by-question display.
• When using random selection of questions from pools, keep the overall exam short.

• There have been a number of reported problems accessing Blackboard using Internet Explorer; so use FireFox. All classroom computers and labs have FireFox installed.

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