Question Personalization in Blue

What is Question Personalization?

Question Personalization (QP) provides instructors the opportunity to add additional questions to their feedback questionnaire. Each instructor may select up to nine (9) questions. The selection process occurs during the two (2) weeks prior to the feedback questionnaires opening to students (i.e., weeks 9 and 10 in a standard 12-week course).

Please note:

• The process is entirely optional. Each individual instructor may choose to add questions or not.

• QP is not available for paper-based questionnaires due to technical limitations.

• QP is not available to TAs.

• Questions must be selected from the available bank. The bank is available for you to review at any time.

• Responses to QP questions are only available to the instructor. They are never included in reports to chairs.

How do I complete Question Personalization?

1. Two weeks prior to the opening of the questionnaire to students, you will receive an automated email from Student Feedback Admin (sfqadmin@uoguelph.ca) alerting you to the opening of the QP window. There will be a link to Blue within the email. Click on the link. Depending on the number of courses you are teaching, you will either be taken directly to the QP page or asked to select the course you wish to add QP questions to. Additionally, you can login directly to Blue and select the appropriate task from the Tasks list.

2. After selecting a course, you can begin the QP process. Above the question bank are 4 features that can assist in the completion process.
1. Table of Contents: Quickly move between the sections of the question bank.
2. Viewing options: Allows you to filter the questions to view all or a subset (e.g., included questions or excluded questions.
3. Preview: Provides a demonstration of the questionnaire as your students will see it.
4. Copy selections from/to: Allows you to copy your QP selections from and to other courses.

3. You will be provided with a list of all available questions categorized the same way as the question bank. To view the questions within a section, use the arrow to open the accordion. For each question, you will have the option to:
1. Preview a question. This expands the question so you can view how it will display to students.
2. Excluded(d). Click on exclude to remove a question you previously selected. The slider will shift left and turn black.
3. Include(d). Click on include to add a question. The slider will shift right and turn green.

4. You are able to select up to 9 questions. Once you reach this cap, the question selection sliders will turn grey and a small popup will prompt that you have reached the maximum number of questions.

5. Once you have selected the questions you wish to include, scroll to the top or bottom to Save and Submit your choices.
1. Save: Allows you to save your work if you need to stop and come back to the process later.
2. Submit: Confirms your choices and will add your additional question to the feedback questionnaire.

Copying Selections from/to Additional Courses

If you are teaching multiple courses in a semester and/or wish to reuse questions from a previous course, you can use the copy function to streamline the QP process. Both copying options are available to select from the top right of the question personalization page for an individual course.

Copy selections from a course

To start, select the course you wish to add your pre-selected QP question to, the select Copy selections from. This will open a popup window.

1. Decide whether your are copying from a Current semester course or a Previous semester course.
2. Click on the course selection box to bring up a list of available courses. Select the course you wish to copy from.
3. Click Copy.

4. You will see a prompt asking your to confirm your selection. To confirm, select Yes, I'm Sure.

5. Your selections will be copied over the the current course. Select Submit to add the copied questions to your SFQ and complete the process.

Copy selections to another course

To start, select a course you have previously selected questions in, then select Copy selection to. This will open a popup window.

1. Click in the Select Courses search bar. This will provide you with a list of available courses to copy your QP questions to. You can select multiple courses at the same time. When you have chosen the course(s), click Select to confirm.
2. Determine your copy option.
1. Copy the questions to the selected subjects. This will copy the questions over, but still require you to Submit from each course.
2. Copy the questions to the selected subjects and submit immediately. This will copy the questions over and submit on your behalf, completing the QP process for the selected course(s).
3. Click Copy.

4. You will see a prompts asking you to confirm your selection. to confirm, select Yes, I'm Sure.

5. Your selections will be copied over to the selected course(s). You can close the current browser window.

Related Resources

• About SFQ

• About Blue by Explorance

• Monitor Response Rates in Blue

• Managing Paper Questionnaires

• Core Institutional Questions (PDF)

• Adding a Course Topic for VETM Phases 1-3 in Blue

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Related Tools

• SFQlink

• CEVAL (CCS)

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