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Flashlight
Online 2.0 Features l
Matrix
Surveys l Flashlight Online
2.0 Contents l Student Course Evaluation
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Learning to Use 2.0
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FAQ l
Encouraging wider
use of Flashlight Online
Other survey
systems start you with a blank page. Other survey systems
are single purpose (just single surveys, or just rubrics, or
just student course evaluation, or ...) Flashlight Online 2.0
is different. You can:
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Adapt
surveys, rubrics, and item banks created by other users,
including authors at other institutions;
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Choose from a
large collection of model surveys and validated
questions created by Flashlight
staff;
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Share surveys with others
(e.g., instructors teaching survey methods can easily
provide forms for their students to adapt or critique;
staff can provide faculty with rubrics to adapt; two or
more people can co-author a survey online);
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Add to the power of your inquiry by using
matrix
surveys, tailoring the questions and even
the text for each group of respondents;
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Reduce survey fatigue by having two or more
groups contribute questions to the same matrix survey
(even though they are gathering information from
overlapping groups of respondents);
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Use a
variety of question types to create your own items,
including two kinds of rubrics;
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Save money
by using the same tool
for surveys, rubrics, and for
student course
evaluation;
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Strengthen the
scholarship of teaching and learning with new tools
that are even more powerful when used in a faculty
learning community (community of practice);
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Boost
response rates (e.g., by tracking who has responded,
while maintaining respondent anonymity.
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Flashlight Online is secure.
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Display
reports to respondents as soon as they complete
a survey and then allow them to watch as more data comes
in.
How to get
Flashlight Online:
"Network" and "Comprehensive Collection"
institutional subscriptions both include unlimited use of Flashlight Online. When a project involving
faculty at many institutions subscribes, all of those
participants can use Flashlight Online. Alliance
subscriptions include one authoring account. All these
institutional subscriptions also include a variety of
related benefits including training, guides to doing
productive studies, materials that can be used to develop
local workshops, and consulting to help do productive
evaluations and research -- our commitment is to help you do
successful studies, not just drop a tool in your hands and
leave.
Are you a
staff member or student at an institution that doesn't yet
subscribe?
We also offer
a limited number of
individual subscriptions that include
Flashlight Online and other member benefits. Here's the
order form.
Flashlight Online 2.0
is powered
by the Skylight
Matrix Survey System, which has been developed by the Office
of Assessment and Innovation at Washington State
University in collaboration with The TLT Group, with the aid
of a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education (FIPSE).
Note: As scheduled, the old Flashlight Online
1.0 server was shut down and taken offline at the end of March 2010. All
surveys and data still remaining on that server were
archived.
Alias for this page:
http://bit.ly/flashlightonline
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