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Online Open Book Chapter Quizzes This is not really a "hub page". There are no links to the "take home" Chapter Quizzes. All quizzes are to be taken on Blackboard. |
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INSTRUCTIONS There are 15 quizzes, one for each textbook chapter, available on Blackboard in the Textbook Chapter Quizzes folder, AFTER passing the Start Quiz with a minimum of 94, on dates as noted in the calendar These "take-home quizzes" are not really tests, since you will, or at least are allowed to, look up the answer/information in your textbook. A take-home quiz is a study guide to the textbook chapters you are reading. Because these take-home quizzes are study guides, they are NOT something you sit down and finish the day before the due date. You work with a take-home quiz during the whole "testing" period, until it is finished! (You learn!) The number of questions for each quiz varies between 10 questions and 50 questions. You are allowed 3 hours on each quiz. Each quiz may have slightly different approach. Some questions have mostly multiple-choice questions, while another quiz mostly true or false questions. Some quizzes require reading the body text, other quizzes spend most of the time on the chapter figures or tables. The quizzes must be taken in number order. As with the Start Quiz you must score a minimum of 94 before you can proceed to the next quiz. You may attempt each quiz as many times needed to score 94, as long as it is within the semester calendar date limits. Some students will not necessarily obtain the highest possible score the first time. The idea is that by responding several times to the quiz questions (if you have to) learning will take place. The questions are supposed to help you learn the material, and help the instructor control that you are actually reading the assigned textbook chapters, i.e. studying. You can view the quiz and your answers (but not the correct answers -- you must find those yourself) on Blackboard after taking it the first time, if you wish. This is also part of the learning process, to figure out how to use the computer and the online resources. However, the questions may not appear in the same order when you take the quiz repeated times, and the multiple-choice question answers may be in a different order. The number of questions does not indicate the importance of a chapter. Some very important chapters have only 10 questions. You are allowed to use the textbook to answer the questions, but you must work the quiz yourself. It is OK for students to help each other with quiz questions in between quiz attempts -- giving hints or textbook page numbers. Cooperation between students, or other persons, when taking a quiz is NOT allowed. You are NOT allowed to give quiz answers on the Class Help Desk! There are as many quizzes as there are textbook chapters, but when you start Quiz 1 no other quiz will be visible. When you score a minimum of 94 on Quiz 1, Quiz 2 will become visible on the quiz hub page, and so on when you progress quiz by quiz throughout the semester. As already stated, before Quiz 1 will be visible you must score a minimum of 94 on the Start Quiz. At the end of the semester, you must take the Endsemester (Final) Exam. The Final Exam will be available online at the end of the semester as noted in the Semester Calendar. For instructions see the Final Exam page on the Environmental Biology hub.
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