This article covers how instructors add their own personalized questions to course evaluations in Blue.
The “Question Personalization” task in Blue starts 3 weeks (21 days) before the evaluation opens to students for your course.
Instructors can include 2 Multiple Choice-type questions, 2 Scale-type questions (referred to as “Table Questions” in Blue), and 4 Comment-type questions.
Instructors can copy personalized questions from courses taught in the immediate prior semester.
Instructions
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.
Select Preview to make sure your questions do not duplicate the existing pre-set questions.
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.
Click Customize next to a question you wish to modify, this will open the question editor.
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.
Click Submit when you are done.
You must click submit for questions to be included in the evaluation.
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:
Copy questions between your courses
If you have multiple courses, you can copy personalized questions between your courses. This can save you a lot of time and effort in rewriting applicable questions that you have added to previous evaluations.
You will have two copy options:
Copy selection from - Allows you to copy questions you have already selected in a different course to this evaluation.
Copy selections to - Allows you to copy questions you have selected in this evaluation to one or several of your other courses.
Screenshot of the Question Personalization task with the Copy Options button circled (upper-right)
Copy selection from
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.
Click Copy Options from the Question Personalization menu (upper-right next to Submit).
Select Copy Selections From . A window will appear named Copy selections from.
Search for the course name you wish to copy the questions from and select it.
Select Copy to finalize the process.
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.
Click Copy Options from the Question Personalization menu (upper-right next to Submit).
Select Copy Selections To. A window will appear named Copy selections to.
Search for the course name you wish to copy the questions to and select it.
Choose to only copy the questions, or copy and submit the task immediately.
Select Copy to finalize the process.
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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