Create and Use a Form

Who is this guide for?

USAHS Faculty and Staff

What does this guide help with?

This guide will cover the Learn Ultra Forms features, including:

• What is a form?
• What questions can be used on a form?
• Form Grading
• Creating a form
• Viewing and Grade Form Submissions
• Exporting form results to Excel

What is a form?

Forms are a reimagined version of "Surveys" from original experience. Forms are much like a google form or a Microsoft form: used to collect information. Some instructors need to collect information to place students in clinical experiences. Others need to survey their class to gauge student interests or opinions. Now, instructors can create a Form for these use cases.

What types of questions can be used on a form?

The following items are supported in a Form:

• essay question
• Likert question
• multiple choice question
• true/false question
• text
• local file
• file from cloud storage
• page break

Form Grading

By default, a Form is not graded. Questions in a form don’t have correct or incorrect answers. Some instructors may choose to grade a Form to encourage participation. When this is the case, instructors must manually enter a grade for each submission. Instructors may download the Form results from the Gradebook and Submissions page as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file.

Create a Form

Forms have fewer settings than other assignments. However, the following details can be set, if required:

• Due date (anonymous forms must have a due date).
• Grading category
• Forms can be set to graded, but those grades must be typed in manually.
• For graded forms, a total point value can be added, or a percentage, or complete/incomplete. 
• Forms can also be set to have multiple attempts

View and Grade Form Submissions

Download Form Results

Anonymous Forms

With the August 2024 update to Blackboard, forms can now be set to anonymous on the form settings screen. Anonymous forms function a little differently, outlined below:

When you select Anonymous submissions, these settings are enabled by default:

• Due date
• Prohibit late submissions
• Prohibit new attempts after due date
• Complete/incomplete is selected as the grading schema for non-graded forms
• When grading, the submission earns the points assigned; you can’t edit or override the points earned

Additional important details to note:

• Anonymous forms cannot be administered to groups.
• Class conversations are not supported when Anonymous submissions is selected.
• To ensure anonymity, student activity, exceptions, exemptions and accommodations are not supported.
• To ensure anonymity, student progress/statistics are not captured.
• Modifications to form questions and settings are not permitted if the form has submissions and the due date has passed.

From the Submissions tab for a form, you can view an anonymized list of students participants along with this information and options:

• Student submission status
• Grading status and grade – At submission, the grading status is set to Complete and the grade is marked (for example., 5/5)
• Post -- Graded forms post automatically
• Download all – You can download all form submissions

To view responses, select an anonymous student from the list. You can enter overall feedback for their submission.

From the Gradebook, before the due date for an anonymous form, "Anonymous" appears in the cell for each student. After the due date, the cells display:

• For ungraded forms, the text "Submitted" or "Not submitted"
• For graded forms, the grade

From the Grades tab, you can select Download Gradebook to download responses to forms with anonymous submissions.