Brightspace Tip #90: Get Feedback from your Students

Instructors can create surveys in Brightspace and use the statistics tools to monitor current course trends, seek opinions, and assess user satisfaction.

Surveys are an excellent way to solicit feedback from learners regarding any aspect of a course. You can gather anonymous or non-anonymous opinions and information from users. Unlike Quizzes, survey questions do not have to have right or wrong answers and Likert-style rating questions are possible.

Some examples of the types of uses for surveys are: seeking feedback on the effectiveness of active learning exercises, the need for clarification of course material, and/or seeking suggestions for course improvement.

Follow these steps to do it.

To create a survey:

1. On the NavBar, click Activities, then click Surveys.
2. On the Manage Surveys page, click New Survey.
3. Enter a Name and select additional settings for your survey (e.g. choose the option to give instant feedback and/or make results anonymous).
4. To add questions directly to the survey, click Add/Edit Questions. Alternatively, you can add questions from the Question Library.
5. Click Done Editing Questions to return to the survey page.
6. Click the Restrictions tab to modify the survey's availability.
7. Change the survey status to Active.
8. Specify a date range for the survey, if appropriate.
9. Set the attempts allowed for the survey.
10. Click Save and Close.

To track survey progress and results:

Based on how you have set up the survey properties, you might see a list of all users or just the overall survey results with anonymous responses.

1. On the NavBar, click Activities, then click Surveys.
2. On the Manage Surveys page, click the context menu next to the name of your survey and click Statistics.
3. In the Users tab, search for users and their listed attempt types. You can restrict your search of survey results by attempt in the Attempts tab.
4. To view a specific user's results, click on an individual attempt. To view the number of attempts per question within a survey, click View Overall Results at the bottom of the page.

Want more information?

Setup a Survey (video)
Ensure anonymous survey participation
Track Survey Progress and Results
Monitor Course Trends and Assess Satisfaction

Question Library Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
Benefits of Question Library (video)
Create a New Question (video)
Import Questions into Question Library (video)

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