Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions
Design Pattern Tags : Academic Skills, Active learning, Flipped classroom, Mobile learning
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions January 2016
Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions allows students to assess their progress in relation to specific content and set goals for learning toward final assessments and course completion.
Rationale Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions assists students to appraise their own progress in a course.
Learners/Context Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions, as formative assessment, allows students and teachers to identify areas for improvement to achieve the required level of course understanding. Blackboard Mobile Learn can be deployed in multiple locations and channels, and used as a culminating activity to evaluate a phase of the program such as a module. Such mobile quizzes can also offer a formative assessment towards a final summative/formal assessment.
Alignment Using Blackboard Mobile Learn for End of Module Review Questions gives students the opportunity to review their learning.
Instructions/Processes Determine the most critical concepts that require reviewing.
Develop a pool of questions.
Decide which questions will be included in the test with appropriate feedback and answers to support student learning.
For details on how to create each mobile question type refer to The Blackboard Faculty Guide to Mobile Tests.
Create a mobile compatible test in Blackboard by following the steps outline in Blackboard Learn (refer to Resources/technology).
Uncheck the option ‘Include this Test in the Grade Centre score calculations’ to designate the test as formative (ungraded).
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.
In the Blackboard Learn course, find the “Create Assessment” drop-down and select Mobile Compatible Test.
Decide when to launch the test.
In the test setting, fill in the dialog boxes and save the settings.
Conditions/Critical Success Factors Knowledge of Blackboard Learn. Understanding of formative assessment. Mobile tests can only be created using the standard Blackboard Learn desktop environment. At this time, you cannot create a mobile test from your mobile device.
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