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1. If you're not sure if your institution has
the TLT Group's web-based survey system, 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; Alliance subscribers
and some individual members have a single authoring account.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FLASHLIGHT ONLINE 2.0
For find general help in using
Flashlight Online 2.0,
ask your
local TLT Group contact or take a look at
this web page of hints and tips for relatively new
users.
As of August 2009, there are two versions of this item
bank:
version 2.0 (created by Chris Clark of Notre Dame,
Jocelyn Payne of Northeastern State University, and Steve
Ehrmann) and
version 1.0 (created by Steve Ehrmann and by Patti
Derbyshire and colleagues at Mount Royal College). Version
2.0 is an upgrade from 1.0, with some old question deleted,
some new sections added, and many items reworded. The
most obvious difference between 2.0 and 1.0, however, is
format.
When you log into Flashlight Online 2.0, you need to be
able to see a folder labeled "Flashlight: Using Student
Feedback to Improve Courses". If you don't see it, ask
your
local TLT Group contact or email flashlight at
tltgroup.org. Inside that folder you'll see the two
versions, each labeled "PowerPoint and Other Presentations;
Item Bank for Creating Feedback Forms."
Take a look at the two versions, and pick one.
Then copy the item bank and paste it into the folder
where you'd like to store your data.
Delete the items you don't want, one by one. Of, if there
are few few items you need, it may be quicker to copy those items,
one by one, into a blank survey.
You can also a) rewrite questions, b) add questions, c)
reformat questions (e.g., removing the comment field).
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.
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