Upload questions from a file to tests and assignments – 3900.67

Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

Besides course content, assessment questions are one of the most valuable teaching artifacts. Up until now, instructors could only create new questions in tests, assignments, or question banks. This process could be time-consuming and inefficient.

Now instructors can author questions offline in a text file. Instructors can upload the file into a test for a more streamlined test building workflow. Each question file must be a tab-delimited TXT file. The file should not exceed 250 records to avoid time-out restrictions. For more details on formatting requirements, please review the related Help pages for Original and Ultra platforms.

Instructors can easily edit and use the uploaded questions as they would a question created in a test. Uploading questions saves instructors valuable time and effort.

Supported question types include:

  • Multiple choice / multiple answer
  • True / False
  • Essay
  • Fill in the Blank
  • Fill in Multiple Blanks
  • Numeric response
  • Matching

Image 1: Instructor view – ‘Upload questions from file’ option in tests; this same option exists for assignments

Instructor view – ‘Upload questions from file’ option in tests; this same option exists for assignments

Image 2: An instructor can edit uploaded questions as they would a manually added question

An instructor can edit uploaded questions as they would a manually added question

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed at the administrator level.

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