Hi fellow Blackboardians
A bit off topic so apologies...
We are looking into the possibilities of running our own student
questionnaires as a pilot scheme this year. We have in the past used a
third party company to run a paper based questionnaire to gather
feedback from our students and give it to our programme managers. This
has proved to be very expensive and quite time consuming, so digitising
it is possibly the answer.
Whilst we have used the survey tool quite successfully for small course
surveys and student union elections these type of surveys don't really
need any extra data analysis. Essentially this survey would be pretty
large if rolled out cross College, ergo a large amount of data and I am
a bit worried about the inflexibility of the survey tool in Blackboard.
We would like to analyse the data afterwards and I can see that this
will involve lots of input from myself if we go the Blackboard route
(exporting data, creating other databases etc)
Has anybody had any experience with any open source solutions out there
in Blackboard land? We have the skills in house to create a bespoke app
but to be honest if there is a good open source one we can tweak then
why reinvent the wheel! Obviously there are commercially available ones
too which I suppose is an option, so if anybody has experience of those
too I would love to know. I've had a look at the BOS Bristol Online
Survey services http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ (which looks very
impressive if you are reading this guys!) but as I said would prefer to
openly source some open source :)
Thanks in advance, enjoy half terms/reading weeks for those who have
them!
Mark Wilfan
Bridgwater College
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