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Respondus Quiz Builder: Import a Text/Word File of Questions into Blackboard Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. There is a specific way you must format a Text or Word file of your quiz to be imported using Respondus. Each correct answer is designated by an asterisk at its left. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment like Microsoft Word or Notepad and then moved to Blackboard quickly and easily

Format the Text or Word Document Properly When importing a Word or Text file quiz into Respondus, spacing and punctuation is very important:

a) Make sure there is a period after the number of the question, followed by a single space. b) After you write the question, press enter only once to begin typing in the letter choices. c) Each letter choice should have a period after it, followed by a single space. d) The asterisk should be placed before the letter of the correct answer, with no space

between. e) Press enter twice after the final answer choice of each question.

Word File Format

Note: If Microsoft Word starts to auto - format the numbering and lettering, be sure to “undo” the change so that you can add the asterisk in front of the correct answer.

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Text File Format

Import Quiz Document into Respondus 1. First, open Respondus. 2. In the Current Personality drop-down, make sure it says “Blackboard 7.x – 9.x.”

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3. Click the Import Questions button at the bottom left.

4. From the Type of file: drop-down, select whether you are using a Text or Word document.

Then click the Browse button associated with the File name field.

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5. Navigate to the location in which you saved the Text or Word file, click the file and select

Open.

6. In the “Create a new document, named:” field, type what you wish your quiz to be named.

7. Click the Preview button. The questions in your quiz should populate with “No warnings” listed below.

8. Click Finish.

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Set Up the Server Before publishing questions to Blackboard, you must first set up the server connection between Respondus and the current Blackboard environment. If you have already set up your server, you may skip to Publish Questions into Blackboard.

1. Click the Preview & Publish tab. (Alternatively, if you are retrieving questions, select Retrieval & Reports)

2. Click the Publish to Blackboard button at left and click the Publish Wizard button. OR Click Retrieve Questions.

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3. Select add new server from the drop-down menu.

4. An Add New Server Settings dialog-box will pop up. Select the No, I want to enter the server settings manually option and click Next.

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5. In text field provided at number 1, type https://bb.uhd.edu/ (don’t forget the “s” in

“https://”).

6. In a web browser, visit http://bb.uhd.edu. 7. Type in your UHD network username and password. Click Login.

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8. Enter any one of your courses. Highlight, right-click, and copy the URL in the address bar.

9. Return to the Respondus program. In the text field at number 2, paste the URL you copied in the previous step. Then click the Extract >> button.

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10.The server information should populate in several boxes. In the Description field, type a

description and enter your UHD network username and password. 11.Click Ok.

Paste

Extract

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Publish Questions into Blackboard

1. Once you have set up the server, you will be returned to the original Publish Wizard or Retrieval dialog box, with the new server information populated. Click Next. ( You may be required to enter your password again here)

2. From the drop-down at number 1, select the course into which you wish to import the test questions.

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3. Select the Create New Pool option and give it a name (it can be the same here, too). 4. Click Next.

5. You will receive confirmation of a successful import. Click the Finish button. You may close Respondus.

6. Go to your course in Blackboard. You will find your questions uploaded to Test, Surveys and Pools in the Pools area.

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For additional support, visit http://uhd.edu/bbhelpform