AUTonline / Blackboard 6.3
Surveys
AUTonline - CREATING A SURVEY
When you create surveys in AUTonline/Blackboard, the Blackboard software creates an entry
for each student in the Gradebook. Surveys are anonymous. The Gradebook indicates that
the student has completed the survey, but the results of the survey do not indicate what a
particular student's response is. Submitted surveys can be reviewed in the Gradebook by
clicking on the column heading for a particular survey. Thus surveys are useful for
determining students' preferences for a particular type of assignment or learning
demographic information about your students. The Assessment Manager in the Control Panel
allows you to create a survey with only one type of question or a variety of types e.g.
multiple choice, fill in the blank, short answer, ordering, etc.
CREATING THE SURVEY
To create a survey, follow these steps:
1.
Click on the Control Panel button on the navigation frame on your course home page.
2.
When the Control Panel appears, look for the Assessment area on the right side of the
screen. Click on the "Survey Manager button to create a survey:
3.
When the Survey Manager appears, click on the "Add Survey" button:
4. The screen will then refresh, and the "Survey Information" page will appear, as shown
below. Use a short title to save room in your Gradebook. Then click the "Submit"
button.
5. After you have created the survey instructions, the "Survey Canvas" page will appear,
and you will click the "Add Item" button to create survey questions.
6. When the "Add Question" screen appears, choose the type of question that you wish
to create. Be sure to click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the screen after you
click on the type of question from the selection box. Recommendation: For a
survey, create a multiple choice question. With this type of question, you can use
"most of the time," "occasionally," "not usually," or a similar series of choices for
feedback from students. You can then follow up this question by adding another type
of question, the "short answer/essay," to ask the student for comments or
explanation.
7. After you click the "Submit" button, the following screen will appear. Use this screen
to create the question and responses as suggested above.
8. Scroll to the bottom of the screen to select the option that is most appropriate for you
at the time, to create another multiple choice question or a "short answer/essay"
question, or to preview the survey. After you either add another item or preview the
survey, you will have the option to make the survey available. Either option will save
the work that you have done on your survey so far. You can always return later to
complete the survey and make it available.
9.
If you do decide to make the survey available, you will have the option to create an
announcement so that students can complete the survey from the "Announcements"
page or to create a link to the survey in either the Course Information, Course
Documents, or Assignments section of the course or in a folder in one of those
sections. Before you create the survey, you can create a folder titled "Surveys" or
"Quizzes and Surveys" in the "Assignments" section of the course. Then when you
click on the option to "create a link" to the survey, you will see the option to select
this new folder. You will also have the option to make the survey available during a
certain time period in your course.
Note: If later in the course you decide to give students extra time to work on the survey,
you can go to the "Survey" section where you created the " Surveys" folder, enter the folder,
and modify the "item" by changing the available dates. You will not be able to change those
dates or modify anything else about the survey except for the title, descriptions, and
instructions from the "Assessment Manager" in the Control Panel.
MAKING A SURVEY UNAVAILABLE
Whenever you create a survey, you also create the record-keeping system for that quiz. Thus
once a student takes a survey, the result is stored in the student's Gradebook and in your
online Gradebook that is available through the Control Panel. If you ever return to the
Assessment Manager and make the survey unavailable, you will remove all students’ records
that cannot be retrieved. Occasionally, however, you may wish that you could make a quiz
unavailable. For example, you may wish for students to have three days only to complete a
survey. After that time you would like to make the survey unavailable to students who did
not meet the deadline. There is only one way that you can do this:
1. DO NOT return to the Assessment Manager to make the survey unavailable. That will
erase all records.
2. INSTEAD, use the Control Panel again but enter the Assignments section of the Page
Editors and open the "Quizzes and Surveys" folder.
3. Then click the Modify button beside the name of the survey.
4. Then check the box that says "not available." This will prevent students from seeing
the "take quiz" button in their "Quizzes and Surveys" folder in the Assignments
section but will preserve the survey and all its records in their Gradebook and your
Spreadsheet (via the Control Panel).