Using the Survey Tool

Student surveys can be used for a variety of purposes, including polling your students on a particular topic or obtaining student feedback.

To create and use surveys, follow these steps:

1. Log into Brightspace and access the course that you would like the survey added to.

2. Navigate to Assessments in the top navigation bar and choose Surveys from the drop-down menu.

 

You will be brought to the Manage Surveys area.

 

You'll notice that you can also import questions from your question library for your surveys.

3. To create a new survey, select New Survey:
- Add a Name
- Add a Category, if you like.
- More Actions allow you to copy a survey, reorder your survey list, make surveys visible, or hide them from users, or delete surveys if no longer needed.
- You can provide instant feedback
- You can also make the results anonymous.

 

4. Next, add your survey questions.
a. You can create new questions or sections and import questions from a CSV file.
b. You can choose to randomize your questions’ order or answers’ order.
c. You can add feedback, add a short description, or remove enumeration.

5. You can add a description, and/ or a submission message and a page footer to your survey.

 

6. You can create restrictions:
a. hide the survey from users and set up availability and release on a certain date and maybe end on a certain date, and you can display that end date in the calendar.
b. choose how many attempts to allow (e.g., unlimited attempts, or a single attempt that students can go back and edit).
c. If you only want a special group of users to access this survey, you can add users.

 

7. Select save and close. (Note: the survey is hidden from students until you make it visible.)

To see the results of your survey

You have the option of viewing a report or statistics. If you choose statistics, the survey results will just be presented on screen for you.

 

Setting Up a Report

To get a downloadable report you need to set up the report first.

1. Select the survey, then select Reports Setup, and then click on Add Report.

 

2. Name your report, check the type of data you want and specify release (immediately or on a specific date and time).

 

3. Indicate who you want to release the report to e.g., Instructor only? TAs? Everyone?

3. Save and Close