How to create survey / test in Blackboard

Instructions on how to create survey/test in Blackboard

Index

What is the difference between survey and test?

1. Create a new survey/test

2. Add questions

3. Give students access to your survey

4. See the results

What is the difference between survey and testing?

Survey and Test are not the same, but the procedure for creating them is the same. In this guide, we will setup a survey but the step for test are the same.

• Survey is an anonymous studies aimed at the overall data for all students.
• Testing is not anonymous, and goes on each student's response.

When you create a survey/test in Blackboard, you must go through many steps. So be prepared that it may take some time to create. But when you have create a survey/test it can easily be reused in other courses.

1. Create a new survey

• Create a new “Item”
• Select "Assessments" and then "Survey"

• Under "Create a New Survey" select "Create"
• Press submit.

• All your previously created surveys will appear on the list. This allows to easily reuse the same survey in several courses.
• Fill in the information about your survey (name, description and instruction)

2. Add questions

• Now your survey is created. Then you must created the questions.

• Select "Create Question" to see your the list of options.

Multiple Choice

• You can, for example. choose to make a "Multiple Choice", where students must answer a series of questions with correct/incorrect answers.
• Then you must fill 5 fields about the questions.

1.field

• Give your multiple choice a name in the "Question Title"
• Then type in your question in the "Question Text"

2.field

• Here you decide how the response options should be presented.

3.field

• Here you select the number of possible answers to your question.
• Type the possible answers in the texteditor under "Answer 1,2,3 ...etc"

• Remember to set the correct answer in the tick box.

4.field

• Here you have the option of adding categories, topics, level of difficulty and keywords. This is optional.

• You can use this information later to find x number of survey with the topic learning or level of difficulty hard.

5.field

• Here you can write a guiding note for the students.

• Now you can either choose to add another question to your survey by selecting the "Submit and Create Another", or you can exit by pressing "Submit"

• Select “Submit” and you have now added a multiple choice for your survey, and your question will appear on the survey canvas.

• You can add more muliple choice, or other other type of questions under the "Create Question".

3. Give students access to your survey

• Now you need to make your survey available for the students.
• Go to the bottom of the page and select "OK".

• Then select your newly created survey under "Add an Existing Survey".

• Press "Submit"

• Now you will be asked to fill six field.

1.field

• Select what infomation about the survey the students can see.

2.field

• Choose availability for students (default if no). Choose number of attempts, force completion, timer etc.

3.field

• Here you can choose whether individual students or groups of students are expetions and should no do the survey.

4.field

• Create a deadline for submission, and whether it should be possible for students to answer after the deadline.

5.field

• Give your students the opportunity to see their own answers and get feedback.

6.field

• Choose how the survey should be presented to the students.
• All questions at once? One at a time? Random?

• When you're finished, press "Submit"

• You have now created and shared a survey of the students.

4. See the results

• Find results for "Grade Center" in the "Control Panel" in the left menu.

• Select "Full Grade Center". Here for you a list of the students.

• Find the column of your survey and click the arrow.

• Then select "Attempts Statistics" to view the results for all students.
• Select "Download Results" to download the results as an CSV or Excel file.