Anonymous student responses for Forms – 3900.98
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students
Related Topic: Forms
Anonymous responses in forms encourage honest and candid feedback from students and help participants feel safe and secure knowing their identities are protected. Anonymity leads to more genuine responses that convey the respondents' true opinions and experiences. Additionally, it increases participation rates and the overall quality of the results.
Instructors can now collect anonymous submissions in Forms. The new Anonymous submissions option appears in the Grading & Submissions section of Form Settings.
Image 1. Anonymous submissions option
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.
When converting Original courses containing surveys to Ultra courses, surveys convert to anonymous forms by default.
We've taken care to ensure students know when their submission to a form is anonymous. The Anonymous icon and label appears on:
- the Content Page
- the Form panel where they start the attempt and view their submission
- the Details & Information section that appears while responding to the form
Image 2. Student view – Anonymous label and icon for a form
For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.