Surveys
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Creating a Survey
Overview
The Survey application is available via Communities, and is in effect a simplified version of quiz. Surveys link in the community areas allowing teachers and KS2 students to create survey whilst all members of the community can participate in them.
- Surveys reside within communities
- Pupils (within an Improver community) and Teachers can create survey for themselves
- All users of a community can participate on a survey
- Students can run through a survey as many times as they want until that survey is closed
- Participants can always re-enter data and their answers are never locked until the survey closed to all users
- Surveys created by students have to be moderated.
Question Types
When you create a survey you may choose different types of question depending on the data you wish to collect by the question. These can be:
- Radio buttons (Choose one answer from a list)
- Check boxes (Choose one or more answers from a list)
- Short text (Freetype a short answer like a name)
- Long text (Freetype a short paragraph)
- Integers (Numerical answer)
- Currency (Answer in currency)
- Times (Date or Time & Date)
Creating a Survey as a teacher
1. Log in with a teacher or a superadmin account.
2. Go to the community homepage of the community you wish to create the survey in
3. Click on the Surveys button on the left
4. Click on New Survey
5. Give your survey a title and click Create
The next screen gives you the option to personalise your survey by adding an introduction and choosing whether the participants can view answers and when.
6. Click on Write Introduction to write a short description about your survey
7. Type a short introduction and click Save
You are now ready to start entering your questions. In this example, we will use one of each question type.
Question Types
Choose one answer
Only one answer may be chosen from the options given.
1. Click Add Question
2. Click Choose one answer
3. Type in your question and answers below and click Add Choice to add additional answers
4. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Choose many answers
One or more answers may be chosen from the answers given
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Choose many answers
2. Type in your question and answers below and click Add Choice to add additional answers
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Write a short answer
A short 1 line answer can be freetyped here
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Write a short answer
2. Type in your question
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Write a long answer
A short paragraph can be freetyped here
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Write a long answer
2. Type in your question
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Write a number
Type in a number only
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Write a number
2. Type in your question
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Answer using currency
Will allow an answer in currency
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Write an amount of money
2. Type in your question
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Answer with a time
Will allow a time to be entered as the answer
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Choose a time of day
2. Type in your question
3. Click Save and add to save and add a new question.
Answer with a date
Will allow a date to be entered as the answer
1. As we clicked save and add we are presented with the question type. This time click Choose a date
2. Type in your question
3. This is out last question so this time click Save instead of Save and add
Previewing your questions
After you click Save on your last question you will be taken back to your manage survey screen with a summary of your questions. From here you can click Prieview to see how each question will look.
Keep clicking next to see how the next question will look, Previous for the previous followed by Cancel to cancel prieviewing
Publish your survey
Once you are happy with your survey, you will need to publish it to make it available to the community.
1. Click on Publish from the manage survey screen
2. If you are in a starter themed community your screen will dim with the focus on the dates the survey is available from and to
3. Click the calendar icons to set the dates and set the time
4. Your current status will now show Published
5. Click Done to close and return to your community.
6. If you are in an improver themed community, the time the survey is available for will default to 1 week. Click on the cogs in survey view if you wish to change this period of time. In the cogs view, click on publish to bring up a dialogue box where you can change the period the survey is available for.
7. You are now asked whether you would like to publish your survey as a task.
Publishing as a task will make it easier for you to keep track of a child's work and let you provide feedback on the task in the form of a grade or comment.
Clicking on 'publish' will bring up a dialogue box such as the following example:
8. Confirming this, will take you through to the task set-up walk-through where you will be guided through the stages of setting up the task, starting from entering the task participants.
Publishing your survey as a task from the task view
It is also possible to create a new survey task from the Tasks area. First give your task a name, then choose 'Answer Survey' from the drop down list. Once you have added participants to the task, written instructions and set up any assessment, you will be taken to the survey creation area where you can start entering your survey question.
Advanced Options in Cogs view
Click on the cogs at the top right of the survey view 
Here you have further options such as the ability to copy and paste or delete a survey as shown below.
Surveys can also be copied between different communities in this way.
