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Develop Surveys & Tests within Your Content Areas

You can create surveys and tests directly within any Blackboard content area that is part of a Course or an Organization.  This feature can be used to administer tests, quizzes or simple surveys to gauge student feedback.  For example, you could add a survey to a list of recommended readings to find out how useful your students felt the materials were.   The process of creating surveys, tests and quizzes in Blackboard 6.3 is enhanced in that there are 10 new assessment question types available.

Note: To create a test instead of a survey, the below procedure is identical except that you will access the Test Manager option instead of the Survey Manager.

To Create a Student Survey and Insert it into a Content Area:

  • In the Control Panel, locate the Assessment section in the center right of your screen.

assessment - Create Survey

  • Click on Survey Manager, and then click Add Survey.

Survey Manager button

  • Enter a name, description, and instructions for your survey, and click Submit.
  • Select the type of question that you want to use for your survey from the drop-down menu. Your options include multiple-choice, true false, fill in the blank, and other question types.
  • Click the Go button beside the Add Question box to create your question.
  • Enter your question and potential answers in the text boxes provided, and click Submit. Repeat this process until you have created all of the questions you want to ask.

multiple choice

Add your Survey to a Content Area:

  • Select the course content area where your survey should reside from the Control Panel or Course Menu.
  • For example, if you have created a Surveys & Quizzes area in your Course Menu, and you want the survey to be under Surveys & Quizzes, click on this area in the Course Menu.
  • Click Edit View on the top right of the screen.
  • In the Add bar at the top of the edit screen, go to the Select drop-down box on the far right. Select Survey, and click Go.

Add a Survey to a Course Content Area

  • Select the survey you created, and click Submit.

Select Your Survey

  • To make the survey available or timed, click on the the Modify Survey screen, click the second option, Modify Survey Options.
  • Scroll down to the second section, and click the Yes box to make your survey link available to students.

  • If you want to create an announcement informing the students of the survey, select Yes for this option - this will appear in the Announcements section.
  • You can also:
    • password protect your survey so only those students with the password can access it.
    • randomize the order of the questions so that no one assessment appears the same.
    • give survey feedback (if you have provided textual feedback when you built your survey - only in Courses).
    • present questions one at a time or all at once.
    • allow students to take the survey/quiz/test once or multiple times.
    • turn off your survey or quiz/test on a certain date, at a certain time.