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Home > Services > Midterm Feedback > Use Blackboard to Get Immediate Midterm Student Feedback > Preparing Students

Preparing Students

Explain the Why and Ask for Constructive Feedback

Your students will respect your willingness to solicit their impressions of your teaching while there is still time in the term for you to respond to them.

For any open-ended questions, stress that you hope student comments will be specific, constructive and realistic. Remind students that useful comments are related to conditions and/or behaviors that

• Affect the quality of the course and
• Are within your control.

Give Step-by-Step Instructions for Accessing the Survey

You will need to let your students know how they will access the survey. For example:

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 your My UO screen locate the section entitled My Courses and click on **THE NAME OF YOUR COURSE AS IT APPEARS IN BLACKBOARD**.
4. Click on the Midterm Survey link located along the left-hand side of your screen.
5. Click on the Midterm Assessment of Teaching link.
6. Answer each question as completely as you can. Be sure to click the Submit button when you are finished.

Consider Giving Credit for Participation

Our experience indicates that assigning credit for completing the survey yields higher response rates.

Emphasize Anonymity

Students may be more willing to give you honest and constructive feedback when they feel confident that their answers will be anonymous. Explain to them that you will see a checkmark in the online gradebook to indicate which students have completed the survey (important if you are giving credit) but that you cannot access any one student’s comments.

We suggest giving students about a week to complete the online survey. Once students have completed the survey you'll access the results through Blackboard.