Personalizing Your Course Evaluation

Personalizing Your Course Evaluation

This article reviews the layout and features available to instructors on the Question Personalization page and includes instructions for:

Critical to Know

  • Question Personalization (QP) tasks open 21 days before a course evaluation period begins and close the day before student tasks open. Session-specific dates are outlined on the Course Evaluation website.

Blue supports copying personalized questions between evaluations in the current term or from evaluations held in the last term (e.g., if personalizing questions for Fall 2025, you can copy questions from your Summer 2025 evaluation).

To reuse questions from multiple past terms, refer to the corresponding course evaluation reports or preview the past course evaluations and copy/paste the questions into your course evaluation for the current term.

Question Personalization Page Overview

You can access Question Personalization (QP) via:

  • The link in an email reminder or a QP task listed in your Canvas Course Evaluations menu item.

  • Blue homepage My active tasks widget: Up to five open or in-progress tasks will be listed. Click/tap on the course names or use the Start Now or Continue buttons to access your question personalization page.

  • Tasks page in Blue: Use the All filters to quickly locate open or in-progress question personalization tasks.

  • Subject management task: Manage settings panel.

Desktop Overview

The Question Personalization (QP) page provides access to several of the features and workflows to review and personalize your course evaluation.

Pro tip: Review all included questions to ensure you do not duplicate them when customizing your own questions.

Example QP Page (Desktop)

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Sample desktop Question Personalization page.

QP Page Features (Desktop Display)

  1. Messaging: Show more or less messaging about the question personalization period or how to customize questions.

  2. View all: Limit the question listing to just those that are included, excluded or customizable.

  3. Expand all: Expand or collapse question previews for all course evaluation sections.

  4. Preview: Review a sample of the evaluation with your saved changes from the perspective of your students. Note: You must answer required Boise State University questions to proceed in the preview.

  5. Save: Saves your changes on the page without submitting them.

  6. Submit: You must submit customized questions to include them in the evaluation.

  7. Copy Options: Copy personalized questions to or from another course.

  8. Show preview (Section Panel): Expand or collapse specific questions in the evaluation.

  9. Customize (Section Panel): Visible on customizable questions. When selected, the question editor opens.

  10. Go to top: Quickly return to the top of the page.

  11. Save or Submit: Save your changes to return to the task later or submit your changes.

Mobile Overview

The Question Personalization (QP) page provides access to several of the features and workflows to review and personalize your course evaluation.

Pro tip: Review all included questions to ensure you do not duplicate them when customizing your own questions.

Example QP Page (Mobile)

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Sample mobile Question Personalization page.

QP Page Features (Mobile Display)

  1. Messaging: Show more or less messaging about the question personalization period or how to customize questions.

  2. Filter (funnel icon): Limit the question listing to just those that are included, excluded or customizable.

  3. Save or Submit: Save your changes to return to the task later or submit your changes. You must submit customized questions to include them in the evaluation.

  4. Overflow menu (ellipses icon):

    1. Expand or collapse question previews for all course evaluation sections.

    2. Copy Options: Copy personalized questions to or from another course.

    3. Preview: Review a sample of the evaluation with your saved changes from the perspective of your students. Note: You must answer required Boise State University questions to proceed in the preview.

  5. Show preview (Section Panel): Expand or collapse specific questions in the evaluation.

  6. Customize (Section Panel): Visible on customizable questions. When selected, the question editor opens.

  7. Go to top: Quickly return to the top of the page.

Instructions for Customizing Questions

Personalization options include:

  • two (2) multiple-choice questions.

  • two (2) table scale questions that allow students to evaluate up to 10 statements on a five-point scale, with options ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree.

  • four (4) comment questions.

Follow these steps:

  1. Log in to https://my-boisestate.bluera.com/.

  2. (Desktop) Select Tasks from the navigation ribbon at the top of the screen.

  3. (Mobile) Select My tasks at the bottom of your homepage or from the main navigation menu to be directed to your tasks page.

  4. From the tasks page, use any combination of filters to locate the desired question personalization task.

    1. Click/tap Start Now or Continue.

    2. Choose View customizable from the View all filter. (Figure 1)

    3. Scroll to the type of question you want to customize.

    4. Click the Show preview link to learn how the question displays in the evaluation.

    5. Click/tap the Customize button next to the question type you want to modify. This will open the question editor. (Figure 2)

  5. From the question editor,

    1. Enter your question text.

    2. Enter answer text (table scale questions only).

    3. If you decide not to use the question, click the circled X icon in the text field to clear it.

    4. Click the X icon to save and close the editor. You will be directed back to your question personalization page.

  6. Saved questions are automatically “included” in your evaluation. Toggle the Include/Exclude button to exclude customized questions. (Figure 3)

  7. Click/tap Save to save changes and return later.

  8. Click/tap Submit to commit your changes and to ensure your customized questions display on your course evaluation.

You must submit your changes for customized questions to appear on your course evaluation. You can preview your survey and make changes if needed and resubmit.

Figure 1. Desktop view of the question personalization page. The View all filter is set to View customizable. The Customize button and Show preview link are active for a table type question.
Figure 2. The Customize button opens the Question editor panel. Question text is entered into in the question field. The “remove” text icon is present after question text is added. The close panel icon is active in the upper right.
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Figure 3. Customized questions appear in the question list as included.
The go to top link is active. Questions can be saved or submitted from
the top or bottom of the question personalization page.

Instructions for Copying Customized Questions

If you have multiple courses, you can copy customized questions between your courses. You will have two copy options:

  • Copy selection from: Allows copying questions from a course evaluation where you already customized questions.

  • Copy selections to: Allows copying questions that you’ve already customized to one or several of your other course evaluations.

Blue supports copying personalized questions between evaluations in the current term or from evaluations held in the last term.

Copy Customized Questions From

If you have already added customized questions for a different course in the current term or in the last term, you can copy the customized questions from that course to other current term courses.

  1. Log in to https://my-boisestate.bluera.com/.

  2. Open the question personalization task where you need to add questions from a different course evaluation.

  3. Click Copy Options (overlapping documents icon).

  4. Select Copy selections from. (Figure 4)

    1. Select Current or Past using the select course drop down.

    2. Click/tap into the text field to view the available courses to copy from.

    3. Select the course name you wish to copy the questions from.

    4. If you intended a different course, click the circled X icon in the text field to clear it.

    5. Click/tap Copy.

    6. Select Yes, I’m sure from in the copy from confirm panel. (Figure 5)

  5. Copied questions are automatically “included” in your evaluation. Toggle the Include/Exclude button to exclude any customized questions.

  6. Click/tap Save to save changes and return later.

  7. Click/tap Submit to commit your changes and to ensure your customized questions display on the course evaluation.

Figure 4. Copy Option > Copy selection from is selected and the copy from panel is open. A course has been selected
and the Copy button is active.
Figure 5. The Copy from confirmation panel opens with
the “Yes, I’m sure” button active.

Copy Customized Questions To

If you have already added customized questions for a course in the current term, you can copy the customized questions from that course to one or several other courses in the current term.

  1. Log into https://my-boisestate.bluera.com/.

  2. Open the question personalization task where you have already added customized questions.

  3. Click Copy Options (overlapping documents icon).

  4. Select Copy selections to. (Figure 6)

    1. Click/tap into the text field to view the available courses to copy to.

    2. Checkmark All or one or more specific courses.

    3. Click/tap Select. All selected course will appear in the copy to panel. (Figure 7)

    4. Click/tap the circled X icon in the text field to clear any courses.

    5. Choose to copy the questions, or to copy and submit the task immediately.

Blue may be slow to respond especially during periods of heavy use so even if you copy and submit, we strongly recommend you open all of the other course personalization tasks that you copied to and check the questions are present and to submit them each manually as needed.

  1. Click/tap Copy or Copy & Submit to finalize the process.

  2. Select Yes, I’m sure from in the copy to confirm panel. (Figure 8)

  3. Copied questions are automatically “included” in your evaluation. Toggle the Include/Exclude button to exclude any customized questions.

  4. Select Copy to finalize the process. The copied questions will appear in the question listing as “included”. Toggle the Include/Exclude button to exclude any customized questions.

  5. Click/tap Save to save changes and return later.

  6. Click/tap Submit to commit your changes and to ensure your customized questions display on the course evaluation.

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Figure 6. Copy Option > Copy selection to is selected and the copy to panel is open. All courses are selected and the Select button is active.
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Figure 7. All selected courses are listed in the copy to panel with the ability to remove them. The copy option “copy and submit” is selected and the Copy & Submit button is active.
Figure 8. The Copy and submit confirmation panel opens with

Video Tutorial

Explorance Blue provides this Question personalization tutorial video. Not every feature reviewed in the video is operable at Boise State.

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