Publishing an Exam to Blackboard

After the exam has been created, converted or imported and after the settings for the exam have been made, the exam is ready to be published to Blackboard.

To publish to Blackboard, do the following:

1. Select the Preview and Publish tab.
2. Select the Publish to Blackboard tab. Note: if you have not opened, created or imported an exam file, Respondus will prompt you to select an exam file.
3. Click on the Publish Wizard icon
4. If it is the first time you are connecting to Blackboard using the Respondus Authoring Tool, follow the directions for connecting the Respondus Authoring Tool to Blackboard for the first time.
5. If you have already created a connection to Blackboard, select the publish to a single course option and then next from the Publish Wizard screen.
6. Select the course you want to publish the exam to from the pull down list.
7. Select New Exam or New Pool (the default is New Exam). The name of the exam file you created or imported is automatically displayed in the file name text box. If an instructor selects the New Pool Option (recommended), he or she must log into Blackboard, access the pool of exam questions and make the exam available within Blackboard. It is recommended to publish to a pool within Blackboard because with Pools, all questions in a file will be uploaded to Blackboard whereas with the New Exam option, there is a chance some questions could be lost during the uploading process.
8. Select Next. This step may take several minutes. The Blackboard publish screen will appear and will go through a sequence of steps: a) uploading questions, b) creating exam, c) adding questions, d) linking exam to content, and e) applying settings. After Respondus has gone through all of these steps a completion status message will be displayed (i.e. successful, etc.)
9. Select Finish.
10. Once a New Pool has been uploaded to Bb, a Test will need to be created within Blackboard before it can be available to students.

Watch an online demonstration on how to publish an exam to Blackboard. (Flash Movie).

After you have published a secure exam to Blackboard, the next step is to inform the Testing Centers of the exam's availability.

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