With Kelvin, you have the capability to generate Student Pulses, enabling you to gather feedback from students across the district, by specific school sites, by a class section, or a smaller custom group. When setting up a Student Pulse, you have the option to utilize our predefined question banks or craft custom questions. The following steps will assist you in completing the process.
Note: In order to create family, staff, and student pulses, it is essential to have the permission to Create a Pulse. If you do not possess this authorization, please contact the Kelvin System Administrator of your site.
1. Select Create a Pulse.
2. Select Create your Own Pulse or From a Template.
3. If you selected Create your Own Pulse you will then select Students.
4. If you selected From a Template select Students to filter student templates.
5. Select from the available Student Templates to preview and use if desired.
1. Name your Pulse.
2. Select the group of students you would like to survey. NOTE: This will open up the Student Selection Pop Up.
3. Select the schools/grades/classes/groups as appropriate. NOTE: There are multiple options to choose the appropriate students for the survey. It is important to understand that when choosing these options, they represent AND features rather than OR features.
4. Click Save. NOTE: Leaving all fields empty and then clicking Save will select All Students.
5. Select the group(s) at your district/site with whom you wish to share the Pulse results and reports. NOTE: Custom groups can be utilized, provided they have been previously created in the system.
6. Check the boxes to enable or disable Comments and the Allow students to request to speak to an adult feature.
7. Click Next.
1. Click the paper/arrow icon to begin selecting questions from the Kelvin question bank.
2. Select the option to select a keyword for searching the type of questions you want to add to your Pulse.
3. Select by domain or dimension from the dropdown to search for questions pertaining to a specific subject.
4. Click Add to add a particular question to the survey.
FYI: You may keep repeating these steps to search and select the questions you would like to add.
1. Select the + icon to enter in your own question.
1. Click on Dimension to add the question Dimension (question group).
2. Click within the question box to add the question.
3. Click on the question type to edit the type of question that will be asked (Likert, Open-ended, Checkbox or Multiple Choice).
NOTE: Keep in mind that only Likert questions will report on favorability.
4. Click on the star icon to change which answer options will be counted as favorable.
5. Click on the answer box to add the answer choice(s).
6. Click on the face emoji to edit, add or remove emojis from the answer choices.
7. Select the X to remove an answer choice.
8. Select Add option to add an additional answer choice.
1. Click within the question to expand it and reveal more customization options.
2. Click on the Dimension to add or edit the question Dimension (question group).
3. Click within the question box to edit the actual question.
4. Click on the question type to edit the type of question that will be asked (Likert, Open-ended, Checkbox or Multiple Choice). NOTE: Keep in mind that only Likert questions will report on favorability.
5. Click on the star icon to change which answer options will be counted as favorable.
6. Click within the answer box to edit answer choice.
7. Click on the face emoji to edit, add or remove emojis from the answer choices.
8. Select the X to remove an answer choice.
9. Select Add option to add an additional answer choice.
1. Select Next to save the questions and move onto Scheduling the Pulse.
1. Select the Date that you would like the Sudent Pulse to begin on.
2. Select the number of days that you would like the Student Pulse to be open for. NOTE: This defaults to seven days.
3. Select the Window of the day when Boogie will show within Google Chrome for anyone that has the Kelvin Chrome Extension that has not taken the Pulse yet.
4. If you are going to give the same Pulse again and know when this will occur, select the dropdown and add in the next window. NOTE: System Administrators can go back into the Pulse and add a new window at a later date.
5. Review your dates, times, etc. If all looks good, select Create Schedule.
1. Verify that the dates for the Pulse window are correct. If not, use the Go back or Create new schedule from scratch.
2. Verify the Daily Window for when Boogie will show within Google Chrome for anyone that has the Kelvin Chrome Extension that has not taken the Pulse yet.
FYI #1 If you wish to edit or remove the Pulse Administration Window, select the three dots icon to open up the edit dates or delete window option.
FYI #2 If you wish to add additional Pulse Administration Windows, select Add dates.
3. Select Finish set up. NOTE: Your Pulse will remain in draft form if you do not select Finish set up. Selecting this button will enable and schedule your Pulse.
1. Review the Pulse and make any changes as needed.
NOTES:
A) You can adjust questions UP UNTIL THE PULSE is LIVE. If you need to adjust AFTER a Pulse has opened up (gone live) please reach out to Kelvin Education.
B) You can adjust the following while a Pulse is live and for subsequent Pulse Windows: 1) Students 2) Who can view the results 3) The open and closing dates of the Pulse Administration Window and 4) The Daily Window of time that Boogie will show within Google Chrome for anyone that has the Kelvin Chrome Extension that has not taken the Pulse yet for this administration window.