blackboard tools > assessment submission
Script to Force Submission of Blackboard Assessments at Time-up
and Prevent Copying / Pasting / Printing*
Instructions for Test Creater
From the Test Manager, click “Add Test”. Give it a name and description. Be sure to add your assessment instructions before you try to implement the script.
After you have typed in your instructions, click on the downard facing triangle under the Normal style drop-down-box.
There's only one thing left before pasting your code. Select the Toggle HTML Source Mode button to turn off the Visual Text Box Editor.
Paste the following in the text box:
<P>insert your instructions here</P>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.shsu.edu/~ucs_www/webdev/blackboard/tools/counter_endtime.js"></script>
Type your instructions where it says "insert your instructions here" between <P> and </P>
Click OK. Finish creating the test.
Note: If you come back in and modify your instructions or description it will mess up the code you have pasted, and you will need to repeat these steps again.
In the “Modify the Test Options” section, just make sure you set the timer.
Ten-Second IssueThis script is written to cause the test to submit 10 seconds before the actual time is up, to allow time for the submission process -- though you will encounter some cases where it takes longer than 10 seconds to submit, resulting in a "Needs Grading" message.
To cover the bases, include this message to students:
If you do not submit the test at least 10 seconds before the time is up, the test will submit automatically. So if the test has a 60 minute time limit, you actually only have 59 minutes, 50 seconds to complete the test, as the time it takes to complete the submission process, which can take up to 10 seconds, is figured in the time.
The test will not submit automatically until student clicks away the 1-minute warning pop-up, though the timer keeps ticking -- so if the student waits 2 minute to click the pop-up, the test will show that the student went 1 minute overtime. However, the student cannot continue working on the test while the pop-up is displayed -- nor after it has been clicked away, if the time limit has elapsed.
* Copied from http://www.princeton.edu/as/bbfaq/Endtime_Counter.htm
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