Surveys & Self Assessments


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What are Surveys & Self Assessments in Brightspace?

Create Surveys

Edit Survey Questions and Pages

Edit Restrictions

Allow Special Access

View Individual Attempts

Create Survey Reports

Manage Existing Surveys

Create Self Assessment

Add Questions to Self Assessment

Edit Self Assessment

What are Surveys and Self Assessments in Brightspace?

Note

The Surveys tool allows instructors to solicit user feedback regarding any aspect of your course. For example, surveys can be used as a method of collecting course evaluations, mid-year reviews, or researching participants' learning styles and content delivery preferences.

Setting up surveys is similar to setting up Quizzes in Brightspace, but surveys cannot be scored or connected to the Brightspace grade book.

Note

The Self Assessments tool allows instructors to prompt students to reflect on & assess their learning. For example, Self Assessments can be given as a formative assessment after particular modules or course activities to measure student understanding. Self Assessments can allow learns a low-stakes way to check their own learning before taking a quiz. Like quizzes, self assessment items can have feedback built in to help students guide their learning process.

Setting up self assessments is similar to setting up Quizzes in Brightspace, but self assessments cannot be scored or connected to the Brightspace grade book.

Important

Self Assessment results are not saved for either the instructor or for the student. In other words, an instructor cannot view or access student responses & results don't save for the student to return to after the session. Students can complete the self assessment as many times as they choose.

Create Surveys

Step 1

Select the Surveys icon in Course Admin.

Step 2

Select the New Survey button.

Step 3

Enter a name for the survey in the Name field.

Step 4

Select the Add/Edit Questions button to add questions to the survey.

Step 5

Select one of the Save options at the bottom of the screen to save your changes. Moving to a different tab of the survey will also automatically save changes.

Step 6

To preview your survey, select the Actions Menu icon next to the name of the survey. Select Preview from the menu.

Actions Menu icon and Preview

Step 7

You will need to make the survey available to students, either by adding the Surveys link to the course navbar or by adding the survey to Content through the Existing Activities button.

Edit Survey Questions and Pages

Note

Editing survey questions after participants have already begun taking the survey will result in submitted attempts that are not accurate. If you need to edit a survey question, it is best to make a copy of the entire survey, edit the question in the new survey, and have the remaining participants complete their attempts on the new version.

Step 1

Select on the name of the survey to open it.

Step 2

Select the Add/Edit Questions button.

Step 3

Select the New button to begin building questions for your survey or the Import button if you've already created the questions in your Question Library.

Step 4

Once you've added questions to your survey, you will have additional options for layout. To break the survey into several pages, type a number into the Questions per page field and select the Apply button.

Questions per page field and Apply button

Step 5

Select the Save button.

Edit Restrictions

Step 1

Select on the survey to open it.

Step 2

Select the Restrictions tab.

Step 3

Uncheck Hide from Students to make your quiz visible to students.

Step 4

Select the checkboxes for Has Due Date, Has Start Date, and/or Has End Date to add dates.

Step 5

Select the Date field to open a calendar and select a date.

Step 6

Select the Time field to open a menu from which to select a time.

Step 7

Select the checkbox for Display in Calendar if you would like the survey dates added to your course calendar.

Step 8

Use the Attempts Allowed menu to select how many times participants can take the survey: Unlimited, Single attempt that is editable, or Limited (set a specific number of attempts).

Step 9

Select one of the Save options at the bottom of the screen to save your changes.

Allow Special Access

Step 1

Select the survey to open it.

Step 2

Select the Restrictions tab.

Step 3

Select the button next to Allow selected users special access to this survey.

Step 4

Select the Add Users to Special Access button.

Step 5

In the date and time fields, either manually enter the desired special access date(s) and time(s) or select in those fields to activate the calendar and time drop-down menus.

Step 6

Select the participant(s) you want the special access to apply to by selecting the checkbox to the left of their name(s).

Step 7

Select the Add Special Access button to save your changes.

View Individual Attempts

Note

Viewing individual results will require that the survey is not anonymous.

Step 1

Open the quiz's Actions Menu and select Statistics.

Step 2

Select the Attempt # beneath a student's name to open their survey attempt.

Create Survey Reports

Step 1

While editing your survey, select the Reports Setup tab.

Step 2

Select the Add Report button.

Step 3

Enter a name in the Report Name field.

Step 4

Select the Report Type:

  • Summary Report: Shows summary data of all responses
  • Individual Attempts: Data is broken down by attempts

Step 5

Select an option under the Release subheading to determine when the report will become available.

Step 6

Under Release Report To, select which roles in the course you'd like to have access to the report. If you do not select any roles, the report will not be available to anyone in the course, including instructors.

Step 7

Select the Save button to save the report.

Step 8a

To run a report, select the Actions Menu icon next to your survey and select Reports.

Step 8b

Select the name of the report you'd like to run.

Step 8c

If you want to generate a report that can be opened in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel, select Generate CSV Report. If you would rather view the report in the browser, select Generate HTML Report. Once run, the HTML Report will allow you to print the report or export it to a CSV file.

Manage Existing Surveys

Step 1

Navigate to Surveys from Course Admin.

Step 2

Select the More Actions button.

Step 3

Choose the appropriate option from the More Actions menu.

Step 4

Select the Save or Yes buttons to make changes.

Create Self Assessments

Step 1

Select the Self Assessments icon in Course Admin.

Step 2

Select the New Self Assessment button.

Step 3

Enter a name for the self assessment in the Name field.

Step 4 (optional)

If desired, select a category from the dropdown; create a category by selecting add category, entering a name & selecting Save.

Step 5 (optional)

Select the checkbox to allow hints, if desired.

Note

Hints are added as part of an self-assessment question during the question creation process.

Step 6 (optional)

Select the checkbox to Shuffle question at the self assessment level, if desired.

Step 7 (optional)

If you desire a header and/or a footer, select Expland page header/footer, select the corresponding radio button for On & use the HTML box to create your header or footer.

Step 8

Select Save and Close.

Add Questions to Self Assessments

Step 1

From Self Assessments, select the Action Menu button on the desired self assessment & select Edit.

Step 2

Select Add/Edit Questions.

Step 3

Select New & choose the desired question type or add a section by selecting Section.

Note

Select Question Pool to make a pool of questions that will randomize which questions a student gets when they launch a self assessment.

Step 4

Compose a question.

Note

Composing questions is the same as composing quiz questions in Brightspace; please see Create Fixed Choice Questions (opens in a new tab) & Create Open-Ended Questions (opens in a new tab).

Step 5

Choose one of the following when you've composed your question:

  • Select Save when you complete a question to return to the self assessment screen.
  • Select Save and New to choose & place a new question.
  • Select Save and Copy to make a new question of the same type.

Step 6 (optional)

Import questions by selecting Import & choose either Upload a File or Browse Question Library.

Note

Quiz questions that are also in the Question Library can be inserted into the self assessment.

The Self Assessment Question Library functions like the Quizzes Question Library; please see Build a Question Library (opens in a new tab) & Modify Question Library (opens in a new tab) for more information.

Step 7 (optional)

Reorder questions by selecting the Order icon; use the checkbox(es) to select question(s) and the Up or Down buttons to relocate the question(s); select Save when done.

Step 8 (optional, if sections utilized)

To relocate questions into a section, select the checkbox(es) of the desired question(s) & select Move; choose the desired section under Collection Root.

Step 9

When finished, select the Done Editing Questions button.

Edit Self Assessment

Step 1

From Self Assessments, select the Action Menu button on the desired self assessment & select Edit.

Step 2

Select Edit.

Step 3 (optional)

To edit a question, select Add/Edit Questions, select on the desired question & perform your edits, selecting Save when done.

Step 4 (optional)

Perform other desired edits.

Step 5

Select Save and Close.


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