This section is called, "How to Cheat on Blackboard", but it should be titled "How to Minimize Cheating on Blackboard".
This summer, I started giving face-to-face tests on Blackboard.com (our university's content management system) using the assessment tool. This new tool has proven itself to be very effective in my classroom. This is the first time that many of my students have taken a blackboard test in one of their classes.
- Walk around the classroom while students are taking the test.
- Show the students' answers and the correct answers at the end of the test. This helps the students learn which test questions they answered correctly and which questions they answered incorrectly. My students enjoy this feature.
- Provide the students with a test time frame. This prevents the students from accessing the questions and answers later.
- Provide a test question database for each course test (i.e. - 50 questions). Then make blackboard randomly select questions (i.e. - 25 questions) from your test question database (i.e. - 50 questions). This feature serves as another anti-cheating mechanism.
I hope this helps!
-Millennial Professor