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Wytheville Community College Blackboard Quiz Generator
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Help
This page should serve as a good reference. This is designed to be as simple as possible.
Formats and Simple Markup
3 general rules:
- Each question and answer begins with a number or letter (your choice) followed by a period i.e. . or a parenthesis i.e. )
- Each question is separated from the next by a blank line
- If you wish, you may use HTML in a question or answer.
How to write the different Question Types
Multiple Choice
- Type your question.
- Type each answer on a fresh line
- Put an asterisk * in front of the correct answer
Example
1. The Pool Manager in Blackboard is
a. A high-schooler on their summer vacation
b. Paul Newman hustling Tom Cruise
*c. A mechanism for creating quizzes in Blackboard
Multiple Answer
- Type your question.
- Type each answer on a fresh line
- Put an asterisk * in front of all the correct answers
Example
1. Which of the following animals have 4 legs?
*a) Dogs
*b) Cats
c) Snakes
*d) Mice
e) Humans
Answer Key Option for Multiple Choice and Multiple Answer questions
Many test generators create answer keys. This quiz generator now supports using an answer key instead of * in front of correct answers. You use an answer key by adding it after the last question and starting with the words Answer Key on a new line. Then the answers. There must be the same number of questions as answers, so you can't (right now) mix in TF or other types of questions with Multiple Choice and Multiple Answer. For example:
1. The Pool Manager in Blackboard is
a) A high-schooler on their summer vacation
b) Paul Newman hustling Tom Cruise
c) A mechanism for creating quizzes in Blackboard
2. Which of the following animals have 4 legs?
a) Dogs
b) Cats
c) Snakes
d) Mice
e) Humans
Answer key
1. c
2. a,b,d
True-False
- Type your statement.
- Type T or F on the next line (actualy it can be t or f or true or false -- it doesn't matter). Notice that this is the exception to the rule of lines beginning with a number or letter followed by a period.
Example
1. This is pretty neat
True
Essay
Example
1. Write all you know about Mongolian Fruitbats
Ordering
- Start the question line with "ord"
- Type your question.
- Type your answers in the correct order. It will be automatically shuffled into a random order for the quiz.
Example
ord 1. List the following coins in value from high to low
a. dollar
b. quarter
c. dime
d. nickel
e. penny
Fill-in-the-blank
- Start the question line with "BL" or "bl"
- Type your question with only one place for the blank (this is a Blackboard limitation).
- Type as many alternative answers as you see fit, e.g. alternate spellings
Example
bl 1. There are _____ regular cards in a pack of cards
a. 52
b. fifty-two
c. fifty two
Matching
- Start the question line with "mat"
- Type your question.
- Type the matches separated by slashes /
- The order of choices will be automatically randomized for the quiz.
- You can have more matches than answers on either side by just leaving that part blank e.g. in the following example, both Ronald Reagan and Teddy Kennedy are distractors.
- Put distractors at the end. Also, there seems to be a bug where Blackboard doesn't like having a question with no answer, so below, f is the format preferred over g. I haven't really tested this heavily.
Example
mat 1. Match the candidate with their running mate
a. George Bush (senior) / Dan Quayle
b. George W. Bush / Dick Cheney
c. Al Gore / Joe Lieberman
d. Bill Clinton / Al Gore
e. Michael Dukakis / Lloyd Bentsen
f. / Teddy Kennedy
g. Ronald Reagan /
Sorting Questions
When the pool manager imports questions Blackboard's code sorts them by type and alphabetically. This quiz generator now addresses this problem by adding a hidden code e.g. <--BBQ-001--> so that questions of the same type will be in the order you typed them. This is just hidden html and does not change anything about your questions.
Questions to: dcartertod [at] vccs[dot] edu.
David Carter-Tod
Wytheville Community College