A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College
Find Books and Media
Do Online Research
Web Pages for Courses and Workshops
Library Services
Library Home Page
Elmhurst College Home Page
Illinet Online

You are here:

Create Surveys

Surveys provide Instructors with an Assessment tool that is useful for polling purposes, evaluations, and random checks of knowledge. The Survey Manager is used to create, add, preview, modify, and remove Surveys.

Surveys differ from Tests in the following ways:

· Questions on Surveys cannot be assigned points.

· Surveys cannot include Random Blocks of questions.

· Instructors cannot give Students feedback.

· Surveys cannot be graded.

· Survey questions cannot be categorized.

· Questions may be imported into a Survey. Questions that are imported into a Survey may not include correct and incorrect answers.

To create a Survey:

1. Log onto Blackboard at http://bb.elmhurst.edu.

2. Under Courses you are teaching, click the link of the desired course.

3. Click the "Control Panel" button (the bottom-most button located to the left of the screen).

4. To open the SurveyManager, click Survey Manager in the Assessments area.


Follow the steps below to create a Survey. To modify a Survey, click Modify next to the Survey that needs to be modified.

5. Select Add Survey on the Survey Manager page.

6. Enter a name, description, instructions and click Submit.

7. Select a question type on the Survey Canvas and click Go.

Create one of the following questions:

Multiple Choice Ordering
True/False Either/Or
Matching Hot Spot - indicate answer by marking a specific point on an image
Multiple Answers Jumbled Sentence - Users are shown a sentence with a few parts of the sentence as variables
Multiple Choice Opinion/Likert
Short Answers Quiz Bowl - Jeopardy! style questions
Essay Fill in the Blank

 

8. Attach a file or URL.

9. Repeat Steps 4-9 until finished adding questions.


Follow the steps below to make a Survey available.

Step 1 Open the content area in which the Survey will appear and select Add Survey.

Step 2 Select the Survey to add to this content area and click Submit.

Step 3 Select the Properties, Availability, Feedback, and Presentation options for the Survey.

Instructors may view the results of Surveys on the Assessment Stats: Assessment Name page. This page will show how Students responded to questions on the Survey by percentage.

Back to Blackboard Help

This page was last modified 14 August, 2006 by Jennifer Paliatka .