Publish Questions to HuskyCT

This article is for instructors seeking information regarding using Respondus to publish questions to HuskyCT.

Before publishing questions to HuskyCT, the server connection to HuskyCT must be set up. For more information, see Settings for Server Connection to HuskyCT.

  1. Open Respondus

  2. Click on Preview + Publish.

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  3. Click on Publish.

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  4. Click on Publish Wizard.

  5. Select either the Publish to single course or Batch Publish to multiple courses option. 

  6. Verify that the blackboard server is set to the profile created for Blackboard connection.

  7. Click Next.

  8. Choose the course (or courses) to which you wish to publish.

  9. Select Create new Exam, Replace Existing Exam, Create new Pool, or Replace existing Pool. 

    1. Create new Exam: Creates a new HuskyCT exam that can be deployed automatically or deployed after adding to HuskyCT.

    2. Replace existing Exam: Replaces an exam that already exists in your HuskyCT course. This exam may or may not be deployed already.

    3. Create new Pool: Creates a new pool of questions that can be used in question sets and random blocks. More information on re-using questions can be found at How to Create Question Sets and Random Blocks.

    4. Replace existing Pool: Replaces an existing pool in your HuskyCT course.

  10. Choose whether or not to Link Exam to Content Area and make it available. If this option is not checked, the exam will have to be manually deployed. Information on how to do this can be found here. If this option is checked, you are given the choice of which content area to deploy the exam in. The exam will be unavailable to students at the start, so the test settings must be edited to make the test available. For information on editing the test settings, see Setting Test Options.

  11. If Link Exam to Content Area and make available is checked, choose the content area to which you intend to deploy the test.

  12. Click Next. The Completed successfully message will then display. 

  13. Click Finish

For more information or assistance with HuskyCT, contact the Educational Technology Office at edtech@uconn.edu or (860) 486-5052.

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