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The Survey Widget is a great tool for getting your students thoughts and opinions and collecting analytical data for your course.

Creating a Survey

Step 1

With your course in edit mode, click on core widgets in the top left and toggle to all widgets

  

Step 2

Scroll down until you find the Survey Widget. Click or drag it onto the page.

 

Step 3

Click Setup in order to begin formatting the survey widget

Step 4

Click where you'd like to type or edit and a menu will open up and allow you to change that section

 

Step 5

Some sections will include a line for "ID." Each section's ID must be unique.

Step 6

To remove a section, toggle it open and click on the x at the top right to delete it

Step 7

To add a section, scroll down to the bottom of the widget, choose which kind of section to add from the drop-down menu, and click add section

 

Step 8

When you're happy with your survey, click the orange Done button at the bottom to make sure all of your changes have been saved.

Step 9

Put your course in view mode to see what the survey will look like to students.

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Exporting Survey Results

Step 1

In the left-hand navigation menu, go to Course Setup > Exports

 

Step 2

Click New Export

 

Step 3

Under What do you want to export? choose Surveys, then select the page the survey is on, and the class you'd like to export results for

Step 5

Under "data columns," tick or untick any extra data you'd like to be included with your survey results (Post ID cannot be unticked)

 

Step 6

Under Export choose a format. We recommend CSV. Don't forget to name your export as well

 

Step 7

Make sure your settings are saved and then scroll back up to the top and choose back to export list

Step 8

Your newly created export should appear on this page now. Click run export to extract the results

Step 9

Once the export is done loading, click on download and the CSV file will download to your computer.

 

The results should look something like this in Excel: