The Personalized Questions feature in Blue allows instructors to add custom questions to the bottom of a standard course evaluation form. You may not change the existing questions, but you may add new ones that are personalized to your own course.

To access this feature you must:

• Be associated with a Tufts school which has activated the 'personalized questions' feature in Blue
• Be an officially designated instructor or staff member who has been granted rights to personalize questions in Blue

You will receive an email at your school email address from Tufts Course Evaluations ([email protected]) inviting you to personalize the evaluation. You can click the link in the email to access your forms. If you do not receive the email, please check your spam folder.

You can also access Blue via the 'Course Evaluations' link in the left side navigation of any Canvas course. Alternatively, you can access your forms via your Blue home page at https://tufts.bluera.com/tufts. For AS&E, there will also be a Canvas announcement with a link to Blue.

If there are multiple instructors on a single course, they may each add their own personalized questions, and will view only their own responses on their evaluation report.

Note:  You are NOT required to personalize questions. It is an option that is available to you.

Note:  Some schools allow you to personalize ratings questions, and some schools allow you to personalize comment questions. Some schools allow both. If you wish to personalize more comment questions than are available, consider combining them into multi-part comment questions.

Note: Some schools require a response threshold to be met in order for evaluation reports to be published in Blue. In the BioMedical Sciences school, if fewer than 3 students respond, or in AS&E if fewer than 4 respond, the report will not be generated. Please keep this in mind if you are teaching a course with a small number of students and you are considering adding personalized questions.

Note: Any personalization must be completed before the personalization period ends.

Note: The questions must be submitted (not just saved) in order to be included on the student forms.

Click 'Preview' to preview the standard form questions before you customize, and then click 'Customize' to open the question editor.

Type over the 'Please personalize this question...' prompt to customize as you wish.

While the questions are customizable, the format is not. If you are looking for more of a certain type of question, you can always combine them. For example, if you wish to ask six comment questions, but only have three available, you can combine two prompts into each comment question. This would allow the students to provide feedback for more than one prompt in each comment box.

When you are finished, click the 'x' in the top right hand corner to close the question editor box. Your new question(s) are now included in the list. Click 'Preview' again to preview the form - which now includes your personalized questions at the end.

You also have the option to 'Include' or 'Exclude' questions. Make sure that the questions you wish to include on the form are marked as 'Included'. When you are ready, click 'Submit' to submit the questions (or 'Update' if you have returned to update the questions).

Note: The questions must be submitted (not just saved) in order to be included on the student forms.