Creating pre-filled Google Form links with Blackboard data
With the pre-filled links option in Google Forms you can easily create unique pre-filled links with Blackboard student data. Currently you are only able to pull a student’s full name, username, course id and course name. The username may be helpful if your institution uses student id numbers for usernames.
- From the Google Forms page, click Responses then Get pre-filled url.
- Enter the following variables into your form and click submit.
| Output | Variable |
| Full Name | @X@user.full_name@X@ |
| Username | @X@user.id@X@ |
| Course ID | @X@course.id@X@ |
| Course Name | @X@course.course_name@X@ |
- Copy the URL provided.
- In Blackboard: Create a new Item.
- In the text box enter: Click here to access.
- Select the text and make a hyperlink to the Google Forms URL.
- Select the target to Open in a New Window.
- Click Insert, then Submit.
