Faculty Content Area

Add Survey

The Add Survey tool lets you create and place a Blackboard survey in any of the content areas.

Adding a Survey

From the Control Panel:

1. Click on the Content Area link where you want the survey added (Syllabus, Course Materials, Assignments, External Links).
2. Choose Survey from the Add Other drop-down menu on the right of the screen.
3. Click on the Go button.
4. Click on the Create button to create a new survey or choose an existing survey from the list.
   Note: See the Survey Manager tutorial for more information on creating a new survey.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Submit button.

Modifying a Survey’s Text

From the Control Panel:

1. Click on the Content Area link where the survey is located (Syllabus, Course Materials, Assignments, External Links).
2. Click on the Modify button to the right of the survey.
3. Click on the Modify the survey link.
4. Click on the Modify button to the right of the information you want to modify.
5. Make any desired changes to the survey’s information.
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Submit button.

Modifying a Survey’s Options

From the Control Panel:

1. Click on the Content Area link where the survey is located (Syllabus, Course Materials, Assignments, External Links).
2. Click on the Modify button to the right of the survey.
3. Click on Modify the survey options link.
4. Make any desired changes to the survey’s options.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Submit button.

Survey Availability:

• Do you want to make the link visible – Enable this option to give your students access to your survey.
• Allow multiple attempts – Enable this option to let your students take the survey multiple times.
• Set time limit – Enable this option to limit the time your students have to take a survey.
• Display After – Enable this option to set the starting time of a survey. The survey will be available for your students to take after this time.
• Display Until – Enable this option to set the ending time of a survey. The survey will be unavailable for your students to take after this time.
• Set password – Enable this option if you want to make your students enter a password before taking the survey.

Survey Feedback:

• Score Only – Enable this option to only display the status of the survey (complete or incomplete) to your students.
• Detailed Results – Enable this option to display the student’s answers to the survey.

Survey Presentation:

• All at Once – Enable this option to display your whole survey on one screen.
• Question – Enable this option to display one question per screen.
• Prohibit Backtracking – Enable this option to prohibit your students from changing answers to questions they have already answered.
• Randomize Questions – Enable this option to randomize your survey questions.

More Information

Q: Why can’t my students see a survey that I have created in the Survey Manager?
A: You need to add it to a content area using the Add Survey tool. You also need to make your survey visible before your students can access it. See the Modifying a Survey’s Options procedure for more information.

Q: Why doesn’t a survey that I have created show up in my Select an existing survey list?
A: You can only add surveys to content areas once. If you have added the survey before, it will not show up on the list of available surveys.

Q: Where can I get more instructions on how to create a survey?
A: See the Survey Manager tutorial for more information.