School of

Professional and
Continuing
USING
FOR TAKE HOME EXAM
Education
(SPACE)

Get your Take Home Exam organized

with Blackboard
for easy monitoring and marking

Prepared by
Online Learning Division (BPAT)
Blackboard Facilitator Team
 Dr Norazlina binti Mohd Yasin
 Rozana binti Ismail
 Syarifah Rabiyah Al Adawiah
binti Syed Badrul Hisham
 Husna Hafiza binti R.Azami
 6 STEPS

Before ‘THE’ 1) Login

2) Create folder and structure
3) Upload question paper
4) Create rubric (optional)
5) Upload instruction

During ‘THE’ 6) Check activity

After ‘THE’ 7) Obtain and mark

answer script
1) Login Before ‘THE’

a) If your students do not have Blackboard account yet,

email the list of your students’ name in Excel format to: bpat@utmspace.edu.my

b) Go to: https://utmspace.blackboard.com/

c) Log in For UTMSPACE lecturer/staff:

User ID:
name or name for email (lowercase)
Password:
Staff ID (lowercase)

For collaboration program lecturer

User ID & password: IC number
2) Create folder and structure Before ‘THE’

a) Click ‘Courses’

b) Click course name

c) Click ‘x’ symbol

d) Click ‘create’

e) Click ‘folder’
f) Type ‘Take Home Exam’

g) Click this drop down menu

and click ‘Hidden from students’
(*Important to make sure students
cannot view the questions before
the real exam date).

h) Click ‘save’
3) Upload question paper Before ‘THE’

a) Click ‘Take Home Exam’

b) Click ‘Create’

c) Click ‘Test’ under

Assessment panel
d) Click ‘New Test’ and type ‘Take Home Exam Question’

e) Click ‘x’ symbol

f) Click ‘Add local file’ to upload your question paper and click ‘open’

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g

g) Click ‘Save’

h) Under ‘Due date’ click the date and the time to change it. Students will not be
able to submit after the specified due date and time.
i) Under ‘Attempts allowed’, click if you want to change the number of submission
attempts allowed.

j) Click ‘x’ to close

4) Create rubric (optional) Before ‘THE’

a) Click this symbol

b) Click ‘Add grading rubric’

c) Click ‘Create
New Rubric’
 d) Click the pen symbol to edit

e) Click the dustbin symbol to remove

d e f) Click ‘+’ symbol to add more criteria

Example of
rubric
5) Upload instruction Before ‘THE’

a) Click ‘x’ under Take Home Exam

Question
b

b) Click ‘Upload’ to upload

the SOP and attachments
one by one
a

c) *Important Before exam

starts, make sure the question
paper is ‘hidden from students’ or
you can choose ‘conditional
availability’ to set the date and c
time that students can view. For
the other items, you can choose
‘visible to students’.
6) Check activity During ‘THE’

a) Click ‘Hidden from students’ and choose ‘Visible to students’ to

allow students to view and download the Exam question

b) Click ‘…’ symbol for Take

Home Exam Question b

c) Click ‘student activity’ to c

check how many students
have started and submitted.
d) Click the arrow symbol to download student activity report. If the symbol is not
there, refresh the page.

e) Click ‘x’ to close

d
7) Obtain and mark answer script After ‘THE’

a) Click ‘Take Home Exam Question’

b) Click ‘Submission’
c) Click student’s name
to view their answer script

d) Click this ‘…’ symbol if

you wish to download all
answer scripts

e) Click this speech

bubble symbol if you
want to comment
Example of comment
f) Click this pen
symbol to edit/mark
student’s answer
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g) Type the mark here

h) Click this student’s name to proceed marking for the next student
i) Click ‘x’ symbol to close after marking has been completed
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j) Click this symbol to go to gradebook

k) Click this symbol to download the gradebook report

 For any questions
Email us at:
bpat@utmspace.edu.my