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How to use Respondus LockDown Browser and YuJa Proctoring simultaneously to administer or take a Blackboard exam. Use of both tools concurrently helps to ensure the integrity of the exam.

This guide explains how to set up a YuJa Proctoring session, with step-by-step instructions for recording your exam.

Each student's exam attempt has a corresponding 'Test Information' page with detailed access/interaction information: total time elapsed, start date/time, and submission date/time. For more details, see the Access Log (accessible from the same menu). This tool includes the date/time of the student's activity in an exam: test start, question saves, submission date/time, and (approximate) time per question.

How to overwrite an existing grade in a Blackboard course (available to Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Graders). When a grade is changed, the new data is automatically incorporated into existing weighted, total, and calculated grade columns — and an entry is made in the grade history.

How to set a default point value that will be automatically applied to all new questions added to the desired Blackboard test: This setting should be applied before you add content to your Blackboard test — if you change the default point value after adding questions, the old questions will retain the previous value. Only new questions will have the new value. Note: this feature is not available for questions in pools and surveys.

You can change the possible points awarded for answering questions correctly in two ways. For both ways, new grades are recalculated for all previously submitted tests.

A question pool is a collection of questions that is stored for repeated use.

You can use pools to create tests and surveys. You can also export and import pools for use in tests in other courses.

By default, Bb exam questions and answers appear to students in the same order that they were created or added to a test. This article explains how instructors can set questions/answers to appear in a different, random order for each student or attempt -or- pull a set number of random questions from a Pool.

Students can cancel ProctorU exams up to 24 ahead of schedule. This article tells how to cancel ProctorU exams.

ProctorU help resources for students and instructors.

A single user exam can be created in ProctorU for students who are granted an exception and allowed to take an exam during a separate exam window. This article show the steps for setting up the single user exam in ProctorU for a student and links to instructions for setting up an exam exception in Blackboard.

This article contains information for students on using the Respondus LockDown browser. Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom web browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard; test-takers are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit for grading. It is compatible with Mac and Windows.

Zoom is a cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration platform. With Zoom you have the flexibility to create virtual classrooms and invite students to join from their desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Students can also share content from their devices such as PowerPoint presentations, and YouTube videos.  Zoom is available to all faculty, staff, and students for academic purposes.

The content editor is a platform-independent WYSIWYG editor based on TinyMCE and licensed as Open Source under LGPL from Moxiecode Systems AB. The content editor has a large number of new and enhanced features and serves as a replacement for the old text editor.

Installation, update, and setup instructions for Respondus. Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard Learn.