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You can use tests and surveys to measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information from students. You can add tests alongside the other content students need as they prepare. Use online tests as you do in your face-to-face classroom to gauge student knowledge and progress. Based on your course view, you can choose your settings for scoring, feedback, images, extra credit, and how questions are displayed to students.<\/p>\n\n

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Wikis allow multiple users to collaborate on the same document, though only one may do so at a time. All users in a course can edit a wiki in the manin tools area, while the wiki option for groups, if enabled, is only editable by groups members.<\/p>\n\n

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A rubric is a scoring tool you can use to evaluate graded work. This tool enables instructors to create a rubric with a custom number of rows and columns. Labels and cell text can be changed, and point or percentage values can be assigned in whatever configuration the instructor needs. A rubric can be attached to an Assignment, Blog, Discussion Board, or other gradable item, or to a Grade Center column in order to give feedback on work not submitted through Blackboard. Rubrics show up in the Inline Grading view, and scores from a completed rubric are automatically input into the grade field.<\/p>\n\n

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The Retention Center identifies students who may be at risk in a course based on criteria such as grades, assignment completion, and frequency of access to the course. The Retention Center helps you discover which students in your course are at risk. Based on default rules and rules you create, students' engagement and participation are visually displayed, quickly alerting you to potential risk. From the Retention Center, you can communicate with struggling students and help them take immediate action for improvement.<\/p>\n\n

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Respondus is a third-party tool you can use to create, manage, and print tests in Blackboard. You can create tests offline with a familiar Windows environment.The Lockdown Browser is a tool for providing an extra layer of security when administering a test in a monitored environment. It prevents students from visiting other Internet sites, accessing other areas of the Blackboard course, taking screenshots, and printing.<\/p>\n\n

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The Performance Dashboard provides information on when students last accessed a course, as well as specific areas within the course. The Goal Performance Dashboard can help you better understand how your students perform in a course. The dashboard displays course goals and the items that you map to them. You can quickly determine how a student's individual grades contribute to their achievement of course goals.<\/p>\n\n

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This tool allows students to view their grades and provides links to access feedback on submitted work.<\/p>\n\n

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