Submitting Your CMT with Blackboard

General information

• Students should note that SAO Computer Managed Tests (CMTs) are effectively open book, take home tests which are generally due a week after the questions are released.
• SAO recommends that students print off the CMT questions, then work on their answers offline. Write your answers in a Word or text document. Then when you are ready, return to the CMT site and copy and paste your answers into the CMT answer fields.
• You can work directly in the CMT software, but you should note that Blackboard can time out if you remain logged on for a significant amount of time.
• If you do work directly in the CMT software, you can save your answers and resume the test later by clicking on the Save All Answers button. NOTE, however, that you can only click the Save and Submit button in the test once - so make sure you are ready!!

Accessing CMT questions

• To access the CMTs question from your Blackboard unit, you need to
  1. click on the Assessment index link, then Assessment Items
  2. follow the link to Computer Managed Tests
  3. scroll down to section Link to CMTs
  4. you'll see an icon like this:
  5. click on the appropriate link (e.g. HET603 CMT-1) next to the icon
  6. this takes you to the CMT questions. Click "Begin" to enter the test.
  7. print the CMT questions
• We recommend that you then work through the CMT questions offline at your leisure, saving your work in either a Word or a text document.
• If you wish you can work on the test questions within the CMT software and click the Save All Answers button and return to the test at a later date.

Preparing and submitting your CMT

• When you are ready and before the CMT deadline, you will need to return to the CMT page of your Blackboard unit and upload your answers and then submit the test.
• To submit enter your answers and submit the CMT
  1. repeat the steps above for "Accessing CMT questions" to get to the CMT
  2. copy and paste your CMT answers into each of the appropriate answer fields (or complete all the questions if you have been working online and saving your results)
  3. when you're finished be sure to click on the Save and Submit button
• REMEMBER: you can only click the Save and Submit button once, so make sure it is once you have completed the CMT!