Printing a Blackboard Exam Using Respondus

To print a Bb exam using Respondus, do the following:

• Open the Respondus Authoring Tool on your computer desktop
• Follow the steps for retrieving Exam Files from Blackboard
• After you have downloaded the exam, select the Preview & Publish tab
• Select the Print Options tab (left portion of the interface screen)
• Click on the Settings tab next to the Exam option in section #1 (Select format) if you want to modify what will appear when the exam is printed. (Note: it is recommended to uncheck the Point Value box if it is checked)
• Click the Edit Headers tab in Section #2
• Format and type the text you want to appear at the top of the printed exam (you have the option to display the text in the Left or Right margin along the top of the page as well as the text you want to appear on top of subsequent pages)
• Section #3 contains various display options for the exam. You can keep the questions in the original order, randomize all the questions, randomize blocks of questions, select a range of questions to be displayed or leave blank to include all questions
• Select either Print Preview to view the appearance of the printed file, Save to File to save a copy of the printed file to your computer or external storage device or Send to Printer to print a hard copy of the exam

For more information on printing tests within Respondus, visit: http://irt.austincc.edu/blackboard/respondus/print.html .