Slides from a professional development session about using quizzes for teaching learning and assessment in Elluminate/Blackboard Collaborate. The session was facilitated in Elluminate

1. Professional development - using Elluminate / Blackboard Collaborate Quizzes for reinforcing learning, formative and summative assessment. The virtual room interface is changing with BbCollaborate11. Some functions are accessed differently. However content & “how to” processes are essentially the same.

2. What would YOU like to “take-away” today?

4. Whiteboard quizzes

5. Elluminate Quiz Manager – building, saving, loading and administering quizzes

7. Have you been in Elluminate sessions where the Quiz Manager was used?  Yes No x

8. Simplest is a whiteboard quiz using polling Formative or summative Several successive whiteboards each with a multichoice question Access/time allowed per question managed by Moderator Responses can be hidden to prevent “copying” Capture answers with a “screen capture” of participant answers to whiteboard OR a “PrintScreen” of entire screen The screenshots or recording may evidence participation

9. Whiteboard Quiz - example Read the task FIRST! 1. This is a reading activity 2. You will read a text and then answer some questions about the type, features, purpose and content of the text 3. Follow the link below and read the text 4. Once you have read the text put up your virtual hand

10. 1. Was the text: A a story B a poem C a news article D a review E a set of instructions

11. 1. Which of these features was NOT in the text: A paragraph B list C picture D heading E sub-heading

12. 1. What was the main subject of the text? A feeding a dog B registering a dog with your shire C what to do if you find a lost dog D a dog finding his way home E choosing a dog

13. What activities do your students do where you might use a whiteboard quiz for formative assessment?

14. Setting up your quiz 3. Set up polling 1. Create your task, questions & answers in Powerpoint 2. Load into the Elluminate whiteboard

15. 4. Once all students have answered the question lock the responses. Locking responses prevents any further change to answers.

16. 5. Screen capture the participant window Select screen capture Set parameters as shown Selected area Encode as png DO NOT Hide app first Capture

17. Re-size and move the capture window to include participant names and responses Click “Snap” to capture the image Position the capture on the whiteboard

18. Quiz Manager quiz Formative or summative Quiz window/quiz manager allows multichoice & short answer questions Quiz released to all students at the same time & can be timed or untimed overall Access/time spent per question is student controlled Capture answers with a “screen capture” to the whiteboard OR a “PrintScreen” of your entire screen The screenshots or recording may evidence participation

19. Quiz Manager is opened in its own window

20. First – a short quiz for you on Elluminate Time allowed will be 5 minutes App share – administer quiz

21. What activities do your students do where you might use Quiz Manager for assessment?

22. You are all about to be Moderators Building a quiz The file transfer document has the steps for you to follow. The next whiteboards show the steps with images We will look at them briefly and then you can roam between them while building your own quiz

23. Building a quiz Select the “Create a new quiz” icon Give the quiz a title Click the “Add new question” icon

24. Type in your first question Click the “Add multi-choice” icon to add each of your multiple choice answers You can delete an option or change the order here Click on the cross by the correct answer to change to a tick

25. Click the “Add short answer” icon to add a short answer Type in your short answer

26. You can re-order the questions if necessary Once you have finished save your quiz in quiz manager NB to keep your quiz after the room closes you need to save to disc. Do this by selecting the quiz & saving

28. Untick “Follow moderator”

29. Tick “Roam”This allows you to move on your own

30. If time allows – administer quizzes You can save the collected quiz results from Quiz Manager and access them anytime by loading into an Elluminate room You can also save using Screenshots of summaries for each student pasted to whiteboard

32. Whiteboard quizzes

33. Elluminate Quiz Manager – building, saving, loading and administering quizzes

35. Feedback Was the pace of the session? A Too slow B Just right C Too fast

36. Feedback Was the session (content and activities)? A Interesting B OK C Boring

37. Feedback How was the session (format and structure)? A Just right – it worked well B OK C Not very good