The Content Designer for Documents now includes a Knowledge Check block. The Knowledge Check enhances the learning experience. Knowledge checks allow students to engage with content and receive immediate feedback. Instructors are also given insights into students’ responses.
Key Features:
- Question Types: Multiple choice and multiple answer questions
- Feedback: Pre-populated correct and incorrect answer feedback, which instructors can edit
- Student Interaction: Students can select an answer and submit it. They receive immediate feedback on whether their answer is correct or incorrect. Knowledge checks allow unlimited attempts.
- Metrics: Instructors can access detailed metrics including:
- Number of students participating
- Total number of attempts
- Average number of attempts to reach the correct answer
- Maximum number of attempts to reach the correct answer
- Level of difficulty metric
- Percentage of students selecting each answer option
To add – create a Document and the new Knowledge Check option will be available for you to add to the workspace at the top of the page
or by expanding the blocks list by clicking on the black plus icon
to reveal the Block options:
Select whether you wish to create your own question or use AI to autogenerate the question.
Creating your own question
The Multiple Choice Question page is now revealed to create the question:
Type in the Question Text and alternative answers in each of the Option boxes. If you wish to add additional answers, click Add Option and add the additional answer. Remember to tick the box next to the correct answer(s). Enter the number of answers the student may select from the drop-down. Enter feedback for correct and incorrect answers. After saving the Knowledge Check question, you may resize and move it as desired within the document.
Auto-generate a knowledge check question
Knowledge check questions can also be auto-generated using the AI features of Blackboard. When the auto-generate option is selected a series of questions will be generated based on the content of the Document.
To change the, select the complexity of the question by moving the slider towards Low or High. To change the output language, click on the Advanced options to display the Output Language selection. Then click Generate to generate new questions.
Four questions will be generated. To select a question, click on the radio button next to the question you wish to insert into the document. Click Add to document.
To edit the question, i.e. add feedback in the Correct and Incorrect box, click the Edit document button at the top right of the screen, then click the edit pencil at the top left of the question block. Edit the settings as described above.
Checking knowledge check results
As an instructor you can check the metrics for these question in real time – but at this moment in time these questions are not connected to the gradebook. To access the metrics – go back to the Question and you can also click on Statistics option to view the Knowledge Check metrics.
