Opinion/Likert Questions

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1. From the course menu on the left of your course page, click "Control Panel."
2. Click "Test Manager" in the Assessment area on the right.
3. Click "Add Test." The "Test Information" page appears.
4. Click the text box next to name and type a name for your test.
5. Click the text box under "Description" and type a description for your test.
6. In the next text box, type instructions for your students.
7. Click "Submit" on the bottom right of the screen. The "Test Canvas" appears.
8. Click the combo box to display the question types.
9. Click "Opinion Scale/Likert."
10. Click "Go."
11. Click the text box and type the statement about which you want an opinion.
12. Click the "Point Value" text box and enter a point value (this can be zero).
13. Click the combo box to display answer number styles.
14. Click a numbering style.
15. Click the combo box to display answer number choices. Note: By default, there are six choices: "Strongly Agree," "Agree," "Neither Agree nor Disagree," "Disagree," "Strongly Disagree," and "Not Applicable." You can change these if you wish as well as change the number of possible choices.
16. Click each of the following text boxes if you wish to change the default answer choices.
17. You can add feedback, but since these are opinion questions the feedback would not be for correct or incorrect answer choices.
18. Click "Submit."
19. Scroll down and click "OK."