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These tips and resources will provide a variety of ideas for preparing to assess online learning. They include alternatives to traditional assessment and academic integrity strategies. This content and more can be found elsewhere in the knowledge base; use the menu to the left to browse for more content or search by keyword at the top of the window.

Tips

1. Begin with How to Assess Online Learning for ideas about alternatives to tests

   • A review of four assessment options with suggested formats for assessing each type

   • Examples of assessments for a variety of formats from video recordings to portfolios and The UnEssay

2. Revisit How to Create Transparent Assignments

3. Consider your Academic Integrity Strategy

   • Visit Boise State’s Academic Integrity for Faculty website

   • Incorporate the Academic Integrity Workshop into your beginning-of-the-semester assignments

4. Use Alternatives to tests

   1. Alternatives to Traditional Exams and Papers

   2. Give students choice, where appropriate

   3. Move students up in Bloom’s Taxonomy, where possible, to focus on demonstrating critical thinking skills

   4. Try something different

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• How to Prevent Cheating During Online Tests by Schoology Exchange

• Tips for Online Tests from Boise State’s Academic Integrity Program

• Want to stop cheating on online quizzes?...Let them cheat! By OLC Insights

Alternatives to Tests

• Blackboard Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) integrations directory: Blackboard supports both native and third-party tools; these integrations extend functionality and allow seamless sign-on to third-party services such as publisher’s exams

• About Universal Design for Learning by CAST, the Center for Applied Special Technology

• RubiStar - create rubrics

• The Unessay by Daniel Paul O’Donnell

• The Unessay by Emily Suzanne Clark

• The UnEssay by Marc Kissel

• The UnEssay: Making Room for Creativity in the Composition Classroom by Patrick Sullivan

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• Adobe Scan mobile app is free and on Android and iOS; this was mentioned as a tool to get a PDF of worksheets used during an exam to demonstrate work.

• FasterScan is an iPhone/iPad app that is a faster way to scan documents (even if they are curled), with your iPhone. It produces a sharp image using image enhancement technology. You instantly scan multi-pages document and send out when there is no scanner nearby. 

• Adding a Quiz to a Video: This article guides you through the steps of adding a quiz in your own video session. 

• Integrating a video with a quiz to Blackboard: This documentation will go over the steps to embed Panopto content into Blackboard for your students and view the grades. 

• Import a Test, Survey, or Pool: This page describes how to import a test, survey, or pool.Blackboard LMS Annotate offers a robust feature set to provide customizable feedback to students.