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1. If you're not sure if your institution has
Flashlight Online,
click here
to see a list and local contacts; institutions with current
"Comprehensive" or "Network" subscriptions have full use of
the Flashlight Online web-based system for creating,
administering and analyzing surveys. If your institution has
such a subscription and you do not have an authoring
account, get in touch with your local contact and ask for an
authoring; you might want to tell them what username and
password you'd like. Make sure you print out a copy of the
Flashlight Online help sheet before you begin your
survey - it will help you avoid some of the most common
errors and problems encountered by first-time users.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLASHLIGHT ONLINE 1.0
2. Use a web browser to log into Flashlight
Online and enter your group.
3. Use the "new survey" button to create a
blank survey, and fill in the "properties." (You can also
return to this area later, but you need to fill it in the
first time before the system will allow you to create your
survey.)
4. After you click the button at the
bottom of the screen, you should be in the "Edit Survey"
screen. Click the "templates" button in the top row of
buttons, and select the Flashlight Template with
"PowerPoint" in its name (ZS14957). Click on the name of the
survey and wait a minute or two. Your survey should now be loaded with
50+ questions. Your next task is to take a look at them and
decide which ones you need, and which ones you want to
delete. Choose questions whose answers could help you
improve the course (for example, if you've been using
sequences to teach about a process, you might want to ask
questions about whether this is helping students understand
such processes) . Delete questions irrelevant to your
course, or whose answers you know, or whose answers wouldn't
help you make improvements.
5. If you'd like to add questions of your
own, go ahead. Use the "add items" button (second row of buttons at
the top of the page, first button on the left).
6. Use "print friendly" to see how many
items are in your survey. The more questions you ask, the
fewer students are likely to respond. A good survey could
have as few as three questions but our guess is that if this
survey is much longer than 25 questions, you may have
trouble getting students to answer unless you give them some
extra incentive.
7. Don't forget to fill in the blank at
the top of your survey - these are the instructions that
students will see before answering your questions. You might
want to say something like, "I'd like your feedback to help
me improve my use of PowerPoint in this course. These
questions should take less than 5 minutes to answer. I'll
report back to you quickly about how I've used your feedback
to decide whether and how to alter the ways we use
PowerPoint in this course."
8. When you're ready to have students
respond, you can either print the survey and have them
respond by hand, or "start" the survey (see the
help
sheet) and have them respond online. If they respond
online, you can use the "analyze" button to see their
responses immediately.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLASHLIGHT ONLINE 2.0
Either copy the whole survey and then
delete the items you don't want, or copy items you do want
from the template and paste them into your survey.
To add questions, use the "questions"
button on the left.
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