Respondus
Respondus is for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, imported from a MS Word document or moved from one Blackboard course to another. Fort Hays State University has obtained a campus-wide license for the Respondus software.
Why use Respondus?
- Easily create quizzes for Blackboard or for print.
- Retrieve a quiz from a Blackboard course.
- Import questions you created with MS Word.
- Quickly distribute a quiz to multiple Blackboard courses.
- Use questions from publisher test banks.
Fort Hays State University has obtained a campus-wide license for the Respondus software. Use the link below to download a copy for you.
- Download Respondus (For faculty only) Note: This is a password-protected access, you need contact bbsupport@fhsu.edu for the login information.
- Respondus User Guides for Instructors (PDF)
- Respondus Quick Start Guide for Instructors (PDF)
Online Training (Demos)
Respondus 4.0
Creating and Formatting Questions
Using Respondus to Publish Exam
Publishing an Assessment to Blackboard
Importing questions
Randomizing Exam Questions
*Respondus Known issues
There is a known issue with Respondus that faculty can't see the whole list of courses when they try to publish exam through Respondus. We have reported this issue to Respondus, and they are not going to fix this issue anytime soon. Here is alternative if you don't see your course list in the Respondus-
You can go to Respondus->Preview & Publish->Publish to Blackboard->Publish Wizard->"Save pool to a local file for manual upload"->"Test with points". Once the file is saved to the local drive, close Respondus 4.0, open a web browser to manually upload the file into the Blackboard course.
If you have questions regarding Respondus and LockDown Browser, please contact Teaching Innovation and Learning Technologies by email at tigerlearn@fhsu.edu or by phone 785-628-4194
Information about the Respondus software and the Respondus Test Bank Network (a free service that allows instructions to download publisher test banks) is available at https://web.respondus.com/he/respondus/resources/