Questions are randomly retrieved from the selected question pool based on the question type and the number of questions available in the selected pool. Step 6: In the Choose Criteria area, select the Pool you wish to pull your question from. These are banks of questions, perhaps around a particular topic, from which you can draw questions. You cannot include a random block in a survey. If you are not comfortable with take-home exams, you should not be using Blackboard for assessments. After you build the pool, return to the Pools page. In this session, we will explore a few of the options available to instructors when creating or selecting questions for a test in blackboard. You can use more than one pool to draw your questions from. You can build a pool with questions from any assessments in your course. You are able to create random blocks of questions which draw from the pools and will be different for each student. Introduction When creating Blackboard Tests, you may wish to set up the test using pools. Unlike question sets, random blocks draw questions from pools only. Searching Pools and Tests. You need to move questions from an assessment to a question pool to export the QTI package. For Ultra courses, please see → How do I present a different set of questions to each student in an Ultra test? You cannot add a random block of questions from another test or survey, only from a pool. Be sure to disable the pop-up blocker for Blackboard Learn so you can access the Create Random Block pop-up window. Blackboard Tests: Using Pools, Question Sets, and Random Blocks Creating and deploying tests in blackboard can be a little overwhelming since there are so many options and settings to choose from. You can have more than one random block, choosing questions from different pools, within a single test. You can keep these as fixed, whilst making different tests from all the questions. 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