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This article covers how instructors add their own personalized questions to course evaluations in Blue.

Instructions

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The “Question Personalization” task in Blue starts 3 weeks (21 days) before the evaluation opens to students for your course.

Tip

Instructors can include up to 2 Multiple Choice-type questions, up to 2 Scale-type questions (referred to as “Table Questions” in Blue), and up to 4 Comment-type questions, for a total of 8 instructor-added questions per evaluation. The quantity limits of each question type are based on the Provost’s requirements and cannot be changed at this time.

  1. Open the Questionnaire Personalization task from your email or sign in to http://boisestate.bluera.com/boisestate, select Home, and open the question personalization task from your task list.

  2. Select Preview to make sure your questions do not duplicate the existing pre-set questions. 

    1. Preview displays the pre-set questions developed by your department or college that your students will be addressing. Formulate your questions to supplement the existing questions.

  3. Click Customize next to a question you wish to modify, this will open the question editor.

    1. Once you have customized a question, it will automatically be set to “include” in your evaluation after finishing the task. You can choose to include or exclude questions by toggling the Include/ Exclude button next to them.

  4. Click Submit when you are done.

    1. You must click submit for questions to be included in the evaluation.

Note

Note: Table (Scale) questions allow students to evaluate up to 10 statements on a 5 point scale, with options ranging from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.

Screenshot of Question Personalization task:

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If you have already completed a question personalization task for a different course, you can copy the same selections and personalized questions from that course to the one you are currently completing.

  1. Click Copy Options from the Question Personalization menu (upper-right next to Submit).

  2. Select Copy Selections From . A window will appear named Copy selections from.

  3. Search for the course name you wish to copy the questions from and select it.

  4. Select Copy to finalize the process.

  5. Review the task with the copied questions before submitting.

Copy selections to

When you have completed a question personalization task, you can copy the selections and personalized questions you made to one or several other courses.

  1. Click Copy Options from the Question Personalization menu (upper-right next to Submit).

  2. Select Copy Selections To. A window will appear named Copy selections to.

  3. Search for the course name you wish to copy the questions to and select it.

  4. Choose to only copy the questions, or copy and submit the task immediately.

  5. Select Copy to finalize the process.

Note

Choosing to copy and submit can save you the step of manually submitting a task for each course one by one. However, this also means you cannot review or modify the questions in the task after it has been submitted.

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