Reducing Cheating on Objective Tests in Blackboard

Cheating can be discouraged with the use of the following steps to prevent students from sharing questions with other students who haven't taken the exam.

• Set Blackboard to scramble the order in which items are presented


• Have Blackboard scramble the order in which answers are presented. **Don't do this if you use all of the above or none of the above.


• Set the force completion option so that students must finish the test when they start it.


• Present your test one question at a time.


• Use a timer on the test and warn students in advance that they will only have that much time to complete the exam.


• Don't provide feedback on the exam until every student has taken it.