Bradley University - Blackboard

Need Help with Blackboard?

Click the Students or Faculty link and try "First Time Users." If you need further assistance, contact ITAC at 677-3045, or stop by Library Room 20 with your ID.

Blackboard Resource -- Quiz Generator

This Quiz Generator is available at the College of Southern Idaho and is a tool for making quick work of creating question pools for quizzes. Click the link below to access the Quiz Generator. For instructions click the "Documentation" link on that page. It will instruct you how to format your quiz questions in a Word or Text file. Once your questions are formatted as directed, go back to the Quiz Generator page to copy and paste your test questions into the text box. Click the "Create Quiz" link to upload your questions. The Quiz Generator will send you back a file that can be uploaded into Blackboard Question Pool and created into quizzes.

If you need help, please refer to the step-by-step guide included under the "Documentation" link on that site or contact ITAC at 677-2344 or 677-2332.

Tips on using the Quiz Generator

Use notepad to type your quiz questions before pasting them into the Quiz Generator.

Avoid using smart quotes for apostrophes and quotation marks. Make sure all of your quotes are straight quotes.

Avoid the use of slashes.

Make sure there is just ONE enter space between your questions. This empty line should not have any spacebar spaces.

Make sure the question itself and all of the answers are continuous and do not have enter breaks, unless they are needed to signify a new answer.

Once you have formatted your quiz in the quiz generator, copy it (press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C). This is done mainly as a precaution. Sometimes the quiz generator does not work properly and generates the .zip file containing the quiz only on the second time. If this happens, you can simply paste the text into the quiz generator the second time (press Ctrl+V) and click to generate the quiz one more time.

Save the .zip file containing the quiz on your computer. From inside your Blackboard course, go to your Control Panel >> Pool Manager to 'Import' the .zip file. If errors occur during uploading, it means that you have formatting errors in your quiz (smart quotes instead of straight quotes, slashes). You must correct the quiz text, generate the quiz once again and save it as a new .zip file to be uploaded.