Hi Ian,

FYI The default for Blackboard MCQs is 4 answers, but you can click on the
'Remove' button to the right of any options you do not want.

(But I agree Blackboard is not ideal for surveys)

Kind Regards,
Sonya

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On 26/05/2009 09:13, "Ian McNaught" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Julia
> 
> My main advice would be to avoid the Blackboard survey tool. Although there is
> a wide range of question types, there are some significant and frustrating
> holes - for example, there is no way to ask a question such as whether the
> respondee is Male or Female (Multiple choice answers have a minimum of 4
> options and Either Or have set answers (yes/no, true/false etc...)!).
> 
> There are also problems with the wording, a lot of the terminology makes it
> sound as if you are doing a graded test, not ideal, especially if you are
> wanting honest opinions on courses. Finally, the results spreadsheet it gives
> you is usually full of html tags and not laid out in a way that makes data
> analysis easy.
> 
> You could however use a third party survey tool and link to it in Blackboard
> so that from a users point of view it looked like they were doing it in
> Blackboard. I would suggest using google spreadsheets (with forms) for a
> relatively simple survey, or for more complex ones try surveymonkey.com or
> Bristol Online Surveys: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ (the latter two options
> will cost you).
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Ian McNaught
> Learning Technology Advisor
> University of Huddersfield
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Julia Ault [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 7:02 PM
> Subject: Creating Student Satisfaction Survey on Bb
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> I am relatively new to Bb admin, so apologies in advance if this
> question seems a tad basic.
> 
> I have been tasked with creating an electronic version of the student
> satisfaction survey that my Uni runs every year to obtain feedback
> about the non-academic services it provides. This year for the first time
> the Uni would like to use Blackboard instead of posting out documents
> to all students - it is greener after all!
> 
> Most of the questions are duplicated for each service and we have
> several departments to survey (finance, registry, student services
> catering, computer services and so on).
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> Does anyone know of an efficient way of creating and categorising such
> a survey so that results may be extrapolated by department or does one
> just have to create separate surveys for each support unit?
> 
> What is the easiest way of extracting the survey results once
> completed?
> 
> I am attaching a copy of the desired survey that has been created on a
> word doc and given to me to work with.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
> 
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