Most likely what is happening here is the test has not been made available to the students. The steps to test/assessment creation are roughly:

  • Navigate to the control panel in your course shell.
  • on the right hand side, click on 'Test, Surveys, and Pools'. From here you can create a test.

Once your test is created, you need to distribute the test by following the steps below:

  • Go to a 'content' area such as 'Documents' or 'Assignments'.
  • click the "Create Assessment" button and then click "Test". A page will load containing the tests you have available to distribute.
Note: If you already have the test in distribution in the content area, Blackboard will not give you that particular assessment as a viable option.

Once your test is placed in a content area, you will need to go into the 'Edit Test Options' and make the test available. There are some other options in there as well.