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Blackboard Forms
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Forms are designed primarily for creating ungraded surveys or other feedback activities in Blackboard. Optionally, forms can be manually graded and used as an alternative to automatically-graded tests or quizzes in circumstances were student grades depend more on participation and/or instructor evaluation than on correct/incorrect answers.
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Anonymous Form Submission UnavailableForms share many features with assignments/tests in Blackboard. As with assignments/tests, form submissions should generally be considered confidential between the student and the instructor(s)/TA(s) of the course; however, at this time there is no option to make student submissions fully anonymous using forms (or assignments/tests) in Blackboard. Instructors who want to create fully anonymous surveys in which responses are entirely disconnected from participants' names/NetIDs/other identifying information should consider using another ITS-supported tool such as Google Forms or Poll Everywhere. Please contact help@syr.edu if you would like to schedule a consultation on picking the best survey tool for your purposes. |
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Creating a Form
To create a new form, open :
Open the course content area where you want to place the form
Select the plus icon
Select 'Create'
The Create Item menu will pop out on the right side of the content area
Select 'Form' under the Assessment section
Enter a title for the new form in the upper left.
To add content to the form:
Click the plus icon
in the center of the screen
Add text, attach files, and including the following types of questions:
Essay/Written Response
Likert (opinion) Scale
Multiple Choice
True/False
You can also add page breaks to control the presentation of the form, as shown in the next section.
Form Settings and Options
Key form settings such as due date and grading status Form settings are displayed to the right of the form editor. Click on a
Select the setting to edit
or click the gear icon
in the upper right to open the full settings menu.
Form settings include the following options:
Due
date and submission rules,Date and Submission Rules
including number of attempts allowed and options to allow/prevent late submissions after the due date, if applicable.
Presentation settings
including options to present the whole form all at once, one page at a time using page breaks, or one question at a time.
Grading and
grade category settings.Grade Category
Even though they are ungraded by default, forms forms will still appear in the gradebook as ungraded items with a submitted/not submitted status (see next section for details). If a form is going to be graded, you must specify the number of points and grading schema that it will use.
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Anonymous Submissions
Anonymous responses encourage honest feedback, boost participation, and improve result quality. Enabling Anonymous submission automatically applies the following settings:
Due date, late submission prohibition, and no new attempts after due date
Complete/Incomplete is default grading schema for non-graded forms
Graded submissions earn the assigned points, no edits or overriding points earned
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Anonymous submission limitations
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Assign to groupsThis setting option will create a form where one member of each group submits the form on behalf of their entire group. |
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Form Results and Grading
Viewing Forms in the Gradebook
Forms will appear in the Ultra gradebook just like other Blackboard content items like assignments, tests, discussions, or journals. There is no way to remove a form from the gradebook apart from deleting it, although forms can be filtered Gradebook and cannot be removed without deleting the Form itself. Forms can be filtered in the Gradebook or hidden from the gradebook student view like any other itemcontent items.
Ungraded
formsForms that are not graded are labeled "Non-gradable item" under the column header icon in grid view.
Student attempt status is automatically displayed as either "Submitted" or "Not Submitted" for ungraded forms.
Graded forms will be displayed in the gradebook according to the total points value and grading schema you apply in the form settings, just like other graded assignments.
To view the results of an individual attempt, click on the "Submitted" status indicator and select "View" from the dropdown menu.
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Students will see ungraded forms in their gradebook view with either a green check mark icon for "Submitted" or a gray circle icon for "Not Submitted."
Graded
Graded forms will be displayed
in the
Gradebook according to the total points value and grading schema you apply in the form settings, just like other graded assignments.
Anonymous
Anonymous forms automatically display “Anonymous” for all students in the Gradebook, no matter if they have completed the form or not
Form Feedback and Grades
Viewing Submissions
To view form Form results, go to enter the gradebook Gradebook and click select on any student submission to open the grading view. Within the grading screen, you can choose to view responses by student (i.e. view the results for the complete form, one student at a time) or by question (i.e. view all responses to a chosen question, one question at a time) using the selector in the upper left. At this time, form responses cannot be made anonymous in Blackboard.
Blackboard forms do not currently support feedback on individual questions. To enter feedback or grades for a form, you must view the responses by student. Click the comment icon
on the right side of the screen to open the feedback/grading panel. Enter comments and/or a grade for the student and then click "Save Changes."
To view Form results for Anonymous submissions you must enter the Form from the Course Content page and select “submissions” from the menu tab
Overall Feedback
Select the Gray arrow to open the Feedback panel
Select the Plus sign to add Feedback
Enter your Feedback
And Save Changes
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Forms are designed primarily for gathering information from students, and do not support individual question feedback, automated feedback, or grading. To create a survey or similar activity with automated feedback, start by creating a test. Tests and test questions can be worth 0 points for ungraded activities, and once created, a test can be reassigned to the "forms" category in the |
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Grading Panel
Enter Grade in Grading Pill
Select Ellipsis
Select Post Grade
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A graded form cannot be changed back to an ungraded form once students have begun submitting responses. Form grades can be overridden with an exception/exemption or disconnected from the overall grade calculation just as with any other graded assessment. |
To download form results from the Gradebook: select the column header icon and then select "Download Results."
To download form results from within the submission list, enter the form from the Course Content page, select submissions, select the ellipsis, and in the upper right select "Download all."
Student Gradebook Form Results View
Students will see ungraded forms in their Gradebook view:
Check mark icon for "Submitted"
Circle icon for "Not Submitted”
Graded forms will be displayed to students in the Gradebook:
total points value based on grade settings and grading schema
anonymous submissions earn the assigned points, no edits or overriding points earned
