Peter,
I am by no means
an expert in the creation of online surveys but I am not keen on the
vocabulary used in Blackboard's Survey Manager. For example, when a student
click's on the link to participate in the survey the first thing they see is a
box with the message: 'Are you sure you want to take this assessment
now?' I am sure this would put many individuals off contributing to the
survey. The word 'assessment' appears several time after this and the screen
also shows points values, again an unnecessary feature. These points have put
me off using this feature. For what it's worth, at the Amsterdam conference
there was an interesting presentation on survey use from the University of
Puerto Rico and also one from Durham University. I came away from that
conference interested in using something called Survey Monkey - see
Hope this is of
some use.
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Gerard Elder
VLE Systems Development Officer
Blackboard Administrator
City of Sunderland College
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tel: 0191 5116005
fax:
0191 5116163
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I have been
asked to create a survey in blackboard that seems quite complex and I
was wondering if it is sensible to do natively in blackboard of if I would
be better looking outside.
What I have been
asked to do is to allow students to select one (or more) subjects and to
then rate those under a number of different headings. I can see how to
replicate leibert as multiple choice questions. A further complication is
that the subjects would need to be normalised according to the number of
participants in a particular course so that something did not get more
"good" ratings just because there are more students!
Peter
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Peter Harrison
Teaching and Learning Systems - Bldg
88
School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science
Cranfield University
- Bedford - MK43 0AL
Tel: 01234 75 4097
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