The Survey module can be used to conduct surveys of your students. Surveys can be anonymous, and you can limit survey responses to one time, or allow multiple responses. Survey results are reported in response graphs and may be exported to Excel or other analysis programs. Please contact the CDC for more information about setting up a survey.

From the Course Menu:

1. Choose the desired section for the lesson, and Turn editing on.
2. Click the Add an activity tab to the right of the desired section and choose Survey.
3. Give the survey a title in the Name section and fill out the options as you desire. For more information about survey preferences see below.
4. Click Continue.
5. Give the survey a filename in the Name section. This will be used for further access to the survey. Next, give the survey a Title. This will appear at the top of the survey. If you wish, you may also enter a Subtitle. Additional Info can supply instructions, history, etc. The Confirmation page will either simply send the survey to an email address or it can end in a text page confirming the completion of the survey along with being sent to an email address. Choose a Theme if desired.
6. When this is completed, click Edit Questions.
7. Add any number of questions of any style. For more information about the kinds of questions you can create, please see below. When all of your questions have been created, click Save & Return.
8. Click Save changes.

Survey Preferences :

1. Open Date: You can specify a date to open the survey here. Check the check box, and select the date and time you want. Users will not be able to fill out the survey before that date. If this is not selected, it will be open immediately.
2. Close Date: You can specify a date to close the survey here. Check the check box, and select the date and time you want. Users will not be able to fill out the survey after that date. If this is not selected, it will be never close.
3. Survey response type: If you want your users to only be able to fill out the survey once, choose "respond once". If you want them to be able to fill it out multiple times, choose "respond many".
4. Respondent eligibility: Questionnaires can be set to be completed by students and teachers by setting this to "both". Or set so that only students can complete them by setting this to "students only". Or set so that only teachers can complete them by setting this to "teachers only".
5. Survey Type: There are now three types of questionnaires:
   1. Private - belongs to the course it is defined in only. This is the standard Moodle module concept. You create a survey and its survey content for the course it is defined in. Editing teachers of that course can change the survey and all teachers can review the results.
   2. Public - can be shared among courses. This is a hybrid of the Moodle module concept. This provides a similar function to the 'library of surveys' from previous releases of this module. Public questionnaires can be assigned to a newly created questionnaire. If a survey uses a public survey from a different course, teachers cannot edit the content nor view the results in the course that is using it. Only teachers from the course that defined the original 'public' questionnaire can do this.
   3. Template - can be copied and edited. This type of survey cannot be used directly, but its content can be copied into a new survey and edited.
6. Save & Resume: Setting this option allows users to save their answers to a survey before submitting them. Users can leave the questionnaire unfinished and resume from the save point at a later date.
7. Survey Content: Displays the name of the survey content being used. Clicking on the name provides a preview of the content.
8. Define New Survey Content: To create new survey content, select one of the radio button options, and click 'Continue' at the bottom. 'Create new' is the default. You can create surveys using three different methods:
   1. Create New: This option allows you to enter the survey content from scratch. Select this option and click 'Continue'. You will enter the survey editor once 'continue' is pressed.
   2. Copy Existing: This option copies a pre-existing survey's content to a new survey, pre-seeding the content. You can copy surveys belonging to the course, or ones specifically marked as 'template'. Entries can be previewed by clicking on their names. Check the button next to the survey you want to copy and click 'Continue'. You will enter the survey editor once 'continue' is pressed.
   3. Use Public: This option assigns an existing 'public' survey to this activity. Check the button next to the survey you want to use and click 'Continue'. No further editing action can be done to the survey's content, once 'continue' is pressed

Question Preferences:

Enter the text of your question (i.e. What is your favorite color?) in the question box. Optionally enter a field name for this question, if you leave it blank one will be generated for you.

If you would like to require the user to respond to this question, select yes in the required field.

Choose the type of response for this question. [Click here to see Examples.] Different types may have parameters to change how they behave, consult the chart below for the use of the length and precision fields.

Type	Length	Precision
Yes/No	n/a	n/a
Text	length	max length
Essay	columns	rows
Radio	n/a	n/a
Checkboxes	min #	max # (not implemented yet)
Dropdown	n/a	n/a
Rate	1..N	Use "N/A"
Date	n/a	n/a
Numeric	length	precision

If you chose a response type that has answer options, fill in one answer per line on the bottom half of the form. If you need more lines, click Add another answer line. [Question types with answer options are: Check Boxes, Dropdown Box, Radio Buttons, Rate.] For check boxes and radio buttons, you may enter "!other" on a line to create a fill in the blank option. An "Other" box defaults to using the prompt Other: , but is configurable by using the format:

!other=prompt text

Add more questions by clicking the New Question button. Edit/View existing questions by clicking the question numbers at the top of the form.

1. Reorder Questions: With this, you can change the order of the questions, delete questions, and insert section breaks. A section break, divides your survey into multiple pages (good for long surveys).
2. Preview: Shows a preview of your survey. You can switch to this tab at any time to see what your survey will look like. If you would like to make changes, go back to the appropriate tab and make the changes. If you are satisfied with the survey, click the Finish tab or button at the bottom of the page.

The Next Page and Submit Survey buttons are inactive in the preview mode.

For more information about setting up Questions, click here.