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Home > Services > Midterm Feedback > Use Blackboard to Get Immediate Midterm Student Feedback > Building Your Survey

Building Your Survey

For the purposes of this survey, we are going to use the short answer/essay questions type to solicit feedback from students.

1. Go to the UO Blackboard website (http://blackboard.uoregon.edu).
   
   
2. Go to the "Have an account?" box. Log in to Blackboard using the first part of your UO email address (ex: tstark2) and the password for your email account. Click on the Login button.
   
   
3. In the My UO screen locate the section entitled My Courses and click on the name of the course you want to develop the survey for.
   
   
4. Once inside the coursesite make sure the Edit Mode button is set to “ON.” This is the button located in the upper right area of the main display screen.
   
   
5. Create a link in the main course menu to a new content area where you want to deploy the survey and title it Midterm Assessment of Teaching. Course content areas can be added by clicking on the green + button on the top left of the menu bar. For instructions about adding this content area see: Adding a Link to the Navigation Bar.
   
   
6. Once you have the menu link created you will now locate that Midterm Assessment of Teaching content area where you want to deploy (place) the survey for student access.
   
   
7. Click on the green Evaluate button and select Create Survey. Note: Surveys are automatically, and always, anonymous and results are not connected to an individual respondent. Credit can be given for completion of a survey but not for individual answers to the questions posed.
   
   
8. Locate the Create a New Survey and click on the Create button.
   
   
9. Type in a Name (required) and Description for your survey. The description should explain the type of survey, the content covered, indicate the type of questions used, and give the approximate time it should take to complete the survey.
   
   
10. Type in the Instructions for the survey. These instructions will be similar to those you might include on a pen and paper survey (including the deadline for completion and how much credit the students will receive for completing the survey).
    
    
11. Click the green Submit button.
    
    
12. You will now be in the Survey Canvas screen.
    
    
13. Click on the Creation Settings button (right side) to adjust the Survey Creation Settings. The Survey Creation Settings page allows instructors to adjust settings for a survey.
    
    
14. Select which options you want to display as you create the survey. The options you select will show up at various places as you create your test. Note: None of these settings are required, as such you can choose to select them or not.
    • Images, Files, and External Links: Add images, files, and external Links to questions - Select this checkbox to include the option to attach images, files, and outside web links to questions.
    • Images, Files, and External Links: Add images and files to answers - Select this checkbox to include the option to attach images and files to answers.
    • Question Metadata: Add categories, topics, levels of difficulty, and keywords to questions. - Select this checkbox to include the option to create categories for questions. This option also enables instructors to add keywords to questions. When searching for questions from a Question Pool or other Tests, instructors may search for questions by category and keyword.
    • Display - These options allow you to specify random ordering, whether you want horizontal or vertical orientation, and if you want numbering options.
      
      
15. Click the green Submit button.
    
    
16. You will now be back at the Survey Canvas screen.
    
    
17. Click and hold on the Create Question drop-down menu and select a question type.
    
    
18. Enter the Question Text. There are many choices here, use the type of questions that best fit your requirements (such as essay or multiple choice).
    
    
19. If not an essay or short answer question select the Options that you want for the survey question: Answer Numbering, Answer Orientation, and Show Answers in Random Order.
    
    
20. Locate the Answers section on your screen and enter the number of answers and the appropriate text for each answer.
    
    
21. Click the Submit button.
    
    
22. Repeat steps 17 - 21 until you are finished adding questions.
    
    
23. Edit any part of the the assessment by clicking on the down arrows to the right of the corresponding survey question and select Edit.
    
    
24. Delete any part of the the assessment by clicking on the down arrows to the right of the corresponding survey question and select Delete.
    
    
25. In the drop down menu you can also choose to Create a Question Above or Create a Question Below the specific question you are working with.
    
    
26. When you have finished adding your survey questions, click the OK button in the bottom right corner.
    
    
27. Now that you've finished building your survey, you'll need to deploy the survey in order for the students to be able to access and complete it.

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Exporting/Importing Surveys

You can create one version of a Blackboard survey that can be imported into another course site. This allows you to use the same survey for multiple sections of the same course or different courses as many times as you want.

1. Locate the Course Management/Control Panel box in the lower left of the screen.
2. Click on Course Tools.
3. Click on Tests, Surveys, and Pools.
4. Select Surveys.
5. Build your Survey if you have not already, or choose one from the list.
6. Once the survey is completed find it on the screen that lists all of your surveys, and locate the double down arrows to the right of the survey title.
7. Choose Export to import it into another course site.
8. Export it to your computer's desktop (you don't need to open it, just save it and keep the file packaged as a .zip format).
9. Now go out to your main Courses (or My UO) page to find the next course you want to add the survey to and again into the Control Panel.
10. Locate your Course Tools/Tests, Surveys, and Pools area again.
11. Find the Import button in the upper left corner (next to the Build Survey button).
12. Browse and find the .zip file you saved to your computer's desktop (file name will look something like this: Survey_ExportFile_PSY201_MidtermSurvey.zip).
13. Upload that file.
14. Choose Submit and then OK.
15. Now that survey will be listed along with any other surveys you have for that course.
16. Locate the section of your course site where you want to Deploy the survey and make sure to make it available.
17. For any other course sites you want to make this survey part of, repeat the steps above. You just have to export it once and can use/import this desktop copy as many times as you want.