--- Forwarded Message from Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]> --- >To: Language Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Blackboard 6+ and timed assessments >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:21:08 -0500 Hello fellow LLTIers, Our Blackboard server is managed by BB so obviously there is a little mistrust as to the information I receive from them about the capabilities of BB. We would like to put our language placement exams in BB, but it seems that the "timed" assessments are, in fact, not really timed. One minute before the end of the exam, students receive a message saying that they have a minute left, but do not receive an additional alert when the minute has expired. BB does not kick them out of the test, so the students may continue. I would have to manually examine the placement exam results and assess some kind of penalty for those students who go over. The students who go over are indicated with an ! in the gradebook showing the amount of time they went over. Can anyone confirm that this is normal behavior for BB 6? Has anyone found a work-around that would effectively terminate the assessment and still record data properly to the gradebook? Thank you for any assistance, Beth Beth Secrist Director, Language Resource Center Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs. & Lits. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996 (865)974-6494; [log in to unmask] http://web.utk.edu/~mfll/LRC/