• Blackboard's web course development suite, CourseInfo, allows instructors to create tests and quizzes from question pools, provide feedback to students, and manage student grades. Contact Educational Technologies' Online Course Support team (OCS) to set up a CourseInfo account.

  • The WhizQuiz tool, developed at Virginia Tech's Information Systems and Insect Studies Lab, allows users to develop online quizzes with true-false, ordering, and multiple choice questions. Images can be included with test questions and feedback can be written for right and wrong responses. If you wish to create a WhizQuiz account, contact Eric Gilmore in Educational Technologies. Ed Tech maintains a WhizQuiz server.

  • Educational Technologies' Online Course Support team (OCS) is producing a set of electronic CATs that you may upload into your Blackboard online course for use in student progress assessment. Classroom assessment techniques are most appropriate when an instructor wants to know what students are learning during the semester and how to adjust the pace or strategy of their instruction. These techniques are also useful for providing interim feedback to students on their progress to plan more appropriate study habits. More than 50 techniques exist. Examples include the minute paper (following a class session, students write the most important thing they learned and the most important question remaining) the one-sentence summary (students answer "who does what to whom, when, where, how, and why"), and the categorizing grid (students design a grid to display their understanding of item relationships). Interim progress assessments are typically not graded, but more often used for feedback purposes.