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Assessing Learners

Use Grade Center, surveys, assignments and course report to help measure your students' progress.

Assignments
5/18/16
Assignments allow students to submit files to the instructor. SafeAssign is now integrated into assignments.
Blackboard Grader App
6/1/15
A mobile solution for grading has arrived. Instructors can now use this app to view and grade assignments on their iOS devices.
Course Reports
6/19/14
Course Reports provide several different ways to view information about student activity, content usage, course standards, and course objectives.
Grade Center
6/1/15
The Grade Center is a dynamic and interactive tool, allowing you to record data, calculate grades, and monitor student progress.
 
Grade Center and HUB Grading
9/22/15
Upload your UBlearns grades to HUB.
Interactive Rubrics
9/22/15
Organize and display evaluation criteria.
Performance Dashboard
9/22/15
Provides an up-to-date report of student participation, progress and grades.
Remark Grade Import
4/12/16
The Remark grade import tool allows bubble-sheet style exam scores, machine graded by the Center for Educational Innovation scoring services unit, to be directly imported into a UBlearns grade center.
Respondus
7/12/16
Create quizzes and surveys by importing questions from your own files or publisher test banks.
Respondus Lockdown Browser
6/19/14
Administer online tests where students are unable to open other software or browser windows.
Retention Center
6/19/14
The Retention Center is an instructor-only tool that enables you to give focused attention to students who need it. It replaces the Early Warning System feature with easy workflows while retaining all existing Early Warning System data and rules.
SafeAssign
9/22/15
SafeAssign is now integrated into regular Blackboard Learn assignments. SafeAssign allows students to submit files to the instructor and checks submissions for originality.
Self and Peer Assessment
9/22/15
Students evaluate peers and themselves using instructor criteria. Anonymous evaluations are an option.
Surveys
9/22/15
Gather ungraded data, including anonymous student data.
Tests
9/22/15
Make sets of questions that are graded to measure student performance.

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