Advantages:

• Provide students with opportunities to ask questions/clarifications about test items.
• Help faculty identify student misconceptions or difficulties with test items.
• Ensure the integrity of the tests.

Disadvantages:

• Consume class time.
• Increases faculty workload: correction, grades compilation, etc.

Advantages:

• Increase flexibility and efficiency of tests administration.
• Provide anytime/anywhere access to tests.
• Reduce faculty workload: automatic grading, grades added to gradebook and accessed almost instantaneously.
• Provide immediate feedback for each question.
• Offer students with self-assesment, practice quizzes, etc.
• Enable faculty to update and reuse test items from one course/section to the other.
• Provide statistical analysis of class performance.
  

Disadvantages:

• Increase cheating and plagiarism concerns.
• Unable to authenticate of student work
• Reduce fairness of tests among students.
• Jeopardize test integrity.
• Reduce feedback and clarification opportunities.
• Increase technical problems.

The easiest way to create and administer online quizzes is to use Blackboard's Assessment Manager. <http://www.clt.odu.edu/bb/tutorials/blackboard_add_test/> Password protection is automatically provided, and students can easily check their grade online. Grades for Blackboard assessments are automatically entered into the online Gradebook, which is a useful tool for instructors.

• Improving Multiple-Choice Tests <http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_16.pdf> <http://pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/guides/assessment.pdf>