Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Workshop Review Questions

Prior Workshop

1. Decide what aspects of the workshop process, content and concepts are to be reviewed or evaluated.
2. Develop a pool of questions.
3. Decide which questions will be included in the test with appropriate feedback and answers to support student learning.
4. For details on how to create each mobile question type refer to The Blackboard Faculty Guide to Mobile Tests (refer to Resources/technology).
5. Create a mobile compatible test in Blackboard by following the steps outlined in Blackboard Learn to create tests (refer to Resources/technology).
6. Uncheck the option ‘Include this Test in the Grade Centre score calculations’ to designate the test as formative (ungraded).
7. Choose whether or not the results are completely hidden from instructors by toggling the checkbox ‘Hide results for this test completely from the instructor and the grade centre’. You may wish to hide the results for the sake of student anonymity
   OR
   You may wish to record the results so that you can gauge the responses to different questions in order to find out which questions students have difficulty with.
8. In the Blackboard Learn course, find the “Create Assessment” drop-down and select Mobile Compatible Test.
9. Decide when to launch the test. 
10. In the test setting, fill in the dialog boxes and save the settings.

At the End of the Workshop

Students answer 2 questions towards the end of the workshop:

• What I learned 
• What I found most interesting or unexpected

On completion of the workshop, they complete the following:

• I still have to learn ______________________

Clicker – students use mobile test questions and vote, rate and/or evaluate aspects of the workshop session.
Captions - students are given 3 photos, in groups students discuss and propose captions to describe key concepts of the workshop.