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Forms can be used to gather information from students using several types of questions including multiple choice and Likert (opinion) scale. Forms are ungraded by default, and questions added to a form have no defined right answer. 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.
Anonymous Form Submission Unavailable
Forms share many features with assignments/tests. As with assignments/tests, at this time there is no option for students to submit a form anonymously in Blackboard.
Creating a Form
To create a new form, open the course content area where you want to place the form, click the plus icon and 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.
Click the plus icon in the center of the screen to add content to the form.
You can 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 are displayed to the right of the form editor. Click on a setting to edit it, 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 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. Even though they are ungraded by default, 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.
Form Results and Grading
Ungraded forms will appear in the gradebook