Creating Surveys
Surveys may be useful for polling, evaluations, as well as random knowledge checks. They do not use points, nor offer feedback to students. All responses to surveys are anonymous.
Incorporating a survey into your course involves a multi-step process that includes the following:
- Creating a survey
- Adding questions to a survey
- Adding a survey to a content area
- Making a survey available
- Viewing survey results
Creating a survey
Use the Survey Manager as follows:
- Under Assessment, select Control Panel, then Survey Manager.
- Select Add Survey. Enter a name, description, and instructions for your survey.
- Click Submit.
Adding questions to a survey
On the Survey Canvas, add questions as follows:
- Select a question type from the Add drop-down menu. Several question types are available. Some are more suitable for surveys than others.
- Select Go. Ignore directions above the question concerning point value and correct answer because these do not apply to Surveys.
- In the Question Text field, enter the question you want to ask.
- Click Submit.
- To add additional questions, continue to repeat steps 1-4.
- After all questions have been added, select OK.
Note: You can reorder the questions using the numbers on the left.
The Survey Manager page will show that your survey exists on the list of surveys. You can still modify the survey because it has not been made available and only exists in the Survey Manager. Once a survey has been created in the Survey Manager, it can reside there indefinitely.
Adding a survey to content area
Now that you have created a survey and added questions, you need to add it to your course site.
- Select Control Panel, then click the Content Area where you want to add the survey.
- Select Survey in the drop-down menu on the right side of the screen.
- Click Go.
- Select the survey you want to add.
- Click Submit.
- When the Survey Added page appears, click OK.
Note: You can choose to make your survey available at a later date. If you want to make the survey available immediately, follow the steps below.
Making a survey available
To make a survey available choose Modify the Survey Options.
- Under Make the link available, select Yes.
- You can select other options if desired.
- Click Submit, then OK on the next two screens.
Viewing survey results
To view the results, follow these steps:
- Select Control Panel, then Gradebook.
- Select the title of the Gradebook item you want to view.
- Select Assessment Attempt Details.
- This page will show anonymous responses to survey questions.
Downloading survey results
The results of Surveys may be downloaded for statistical analysis. (Analysis is done through another application, such as Microsoft Excel.)
- Click Control Panel, then Gradebook.
- In the Gradebook View Spreadsheet, select an item for analysis.
- On the Item Options page, select Download Results.
- Select the delimiter type for the download results. Both Comma and Tab files are common types of data files and can be opened in most editing software.
- Comma-delimited files (.CSV) have data items seperated out by commas. These need to be imported for use in Excel.
- Tab-delimited files (.XLS) have data items seperated out by tabs. These can be opened directly in Excel.
- Select to download the results 'By User' or 'By Question and User'.
- Choose the option Click to download results.
- Select a program with which to open the file when the dialogue box opens, then select a location and name for the file.
- If the Assessment has more than 40 questions, select the option 'By Question and User'.
- If one or more attempts are missing in the download, this might be due to a bad import, data corruption or similar incident.
When analyzing data, consider the following:
- If a user attempts an assessment twice, only the most recent attempt will appear.
- Questions and answers are reported in the order presented.
- Only responses from those in a student role will be reported.
