One of the best uses of the assessment tools in Blackboard is to make a very short quiz about your syllabus. Include these two items to help the students learn your wishes and your semester will go much better.
1. What is my professor's name?
2. What does my professor want to be called?
There are lots of other things you can add, specific to your rules and procedures. Having the students take an open book/syllabus test will increase their learning of the material, thereby reducing confusion later in the semester.
If you need help creating and deploying an assessment in the newly upgraded Blackboard 9.1, contact the Help Desk at 305-284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Bill Vilberg, bill.vilberg@miami.edu, 786-250-2255
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