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You can create surveys and use iLearn's built in statistics tools to have students introduce themselves, monitor current course trends and opinions, or assess user satisfaction. Survey results can be collected anonymously if desired. The Survey tool is similar in structure and shares many components with the Quizzes tool, but you can not connect a Survey to the Grades tool and it has less question response tracking capabilities than Quizzes. If you need that kind of information you must use the Quiz tool. Simply name the quiz as a Survey. To access the survey tool: 1. From within your course, click on the Survey link on your navigation bar. The following options display:
- Manage Surveys
- Question Library
- Survey List
- New Survey
- Re-Order Surveys
- Delete Surveys
The survey list displays the surveys that are currently available. This is also the default view in Manage Surveys. 
Creating Survey Questions To create survey questions: 1. Select the Question Library link on the Manage Surveys page and use the Create New drop down menu. Remember that iLearn uses one Question Library for Quizzes, Surveys and Self Assessments. This allows you to quickly re-use questions for different purposes. OR 2. When editing a survey, select the Layout/Questions tab and click Add /Edit Questions Once you are in the Add/Edit Questions area, select a question type from the drop down menu and click Go to create a question or Import questions from the Library or a text file. Survey questions can be created offline using iLearn's Text Format File.
- If you have already created your questions offline using the template, and would like to populate your questions into the library then follow these steps, but keep in mind that you may need to tweak the text file if you created it without first looking at the iLearn Sample File:
1. On the Manage Surveys page, click the Question Library icon or open a survey and choose the Survey Layout/Questions tab. 2. Click Import.
3. Choose From a iLearn Text Format File from the Import Source drop down menu. 4. If you simply want to download the text file template to begin creating your questions, select the CSV Sample File link and Save the file on your computer. 5. To upload a question file you have completed, click Browse and select the file you want to upload to the question library. Click Open . Then click Save .
Multiple Choice
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.
4. Choose a display Style to set how answer choices appear to students. We recommend Vertical.
5. Type in the question options (answer choices) in the text boxes. If you wish to add more options, click the Add Option button. You can put a number from 1-99 in the Add Option box to quickly add lots of Option boxes.
True or False
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.
4. Choose a display Style. We recommend Vertical.
Long Answer
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. To set the size of the input text box, select the number of rows and columns, we recommend large numbers to give students as much room as possible.
4. Text entered in the Initial Text box will be displayed to users in the text box before they type their answer.
5. Text entered in the Answer Key box will be displayed to instructors or other users that grade quizzes in the Grade Quiz area.
6. Allowing student to use the HTML Editor will give them a Spell Check and several other features. Students can also Copy and Paste from Microsoft Word into the boxes so that they can use a spell checker they are more familiar with.
Short Answer
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. Choose the size of the input box by using the drop-down lists beside rows and columns.
3. Click the Add Answer icon if there is more than one correct answer.
4. Type the answer in the text field and choose the weight.
5. Continue adding all accepted answers and weights. For example, you may want to select 100% from the drop-down list beside the correct option. Associating an option with 100% simply means if a student were to choose that option, they would receive full points for that question. Each Option box can have a different weight if you want to give partial credit.
6. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
Likert Questions Use this type of question if you would like your students to give feedback via a rating scale. The different scales include:
- One to Five (1 - 5)
- One to Eight (1-8)
- Occurrence Scale (Never - Often)
- Agreement Scale (Strongly Disagree / Agree)
- Strong Disagree - Strongly Agree (5 options + N/A)
- Agreement Scale (5 options)
1. Select Linkert from question library. 2. Input introductory text to explain the questions and/or intentions of the following question(s). 3. Select a rating scale. 4. Type questions in the Question Box (add as many as you would like).
Fill In the Blanks
1. Enter the text that appears before the first blank in the first text field or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. Choose your blank size in the drop-down list.
3. Enter the text that appears after the first blank in the next text field or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
4. If you wish to add more text and blank options, click the Add Text or Add Blank buttons.
5. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
Multi-Select
Use multi-select questions to have students identify several answers out of a list of possible answers.
Example "Identify all of the prime numbers in the following list: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15."
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. Use the drop-down list to choose an enumeration style.
4. Choose a display Style. We recommend Vertical
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Matching
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2 If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. Type the question Choices in the Choice text boxes. If you wish to add more choices, click the Add Choice button.
4. Type the Matches in the Matches text boxes. If you wish to add more matches, click the Add Match button.
5. Use the drop-down list beside a "match" to select the corresponding "choice" number. This will create the "matched" pairs and account for the any randomizing of answers.
Ordering
1. Enter your Question Text in the text box or use the HTML Editor to enter your text, graphics or mathematical symbols. See HTML Editor for help with it. If you use the Spell Check you must click Finish for the changes to take.
2. If you would like to use an image in the question, use Insert an Image or the HTML Editor in the question text to locate a course image in the course files, or click Upload Image to use one from your computer.
3. Choose a grading format: Equally Weighted, All or nothing (students must have all the possible correct answers or else they receive no marks), or Right minus wrong (the number of wrong answers chosen is subtracted from the number of right answers chosen to get an overall grade for the question).
4. Type in the question items in the text boxes. If you wish to add more choices, click the Add Item button.
5. Choose the correct order by using the drop-down lists.
Text Information Item
Use this feature to create a question consisting of text only. You can use it to provide supplementary information on a survey. For example, perhaps you have a case study you would like to base several questions on. Instead of inserting the case study into each question, you can simply create a text information question and have your related questions appear directly underneath the text information question. Simply enter your information text in the text box and Save.
Image Information Item
Use this feature to create a question consisting of an image only. You can use it to provide supplementary information on a survey. For example, perhaps you have a diagram you would like to refer to in several quiz questions. Instead of inserting the diagram into each question, you can simply create an image information question and have your related questions appear directly underneath the image information item.
1. Use the Find link to locate a course image. Or, click the Browse button to locate an image stored on your computer.
2. Enter a caption to appear below the image.
3. Click Preview to preview the image.
4. Click Save , or Save & New to continue creating questions.
Creating and Editing Surveys To create a new survey: 1. Select the Survey link from your course NavBar 2. Click the New Survey icon to create a new quiz, or select the name of the survey you wish to edit from the list. The Properties tab displays by default when you create or edit a survey 
3. Type a Name for your survey. 4. If the give instant feedback box is checked, users will receive feedback immediately after answering a question. 5. Check the Anonymous option to hide user data in survey results. The responses to survey questions are available for all users, but the system will not report who made what response. 6. Enter a message to be displayed to participants in the Description field or in the Submission Message field by opening the Messages area 7. Enter a message in the Footer Message field that will be shown to users at the end of the survey by opening the Page Footer area. 8. Click Save Survey
Survey Restrictions 1. Click the Restrictions tab within a survey. 
2. In the availability section, you can set the survey status and when the survey starts and ends. Users can only see surveys that have been set to active. 3. Choose a Start Date using the drop down menu or by clicking on the calendar icon. If you wish for your survey to have no specific start date, choose no set start date . 4. Choose an End Date using the drop down menu or by clicking on the calendar icon. If you wish your survey to have no specific end date, choose no set date end . 5. Add release conditions in the Additional Release Conditions area (if applicable, Release Conditions allow you to set requirements that students must meet before they can view the quiz). By clicking Create and Attach, to build a new condition for the course or Attach Existing if the Condition has already been used some where else in the course such as Content or Discussions. 
Example You could create a release condition that requires students to view a certain content topic before they can view the quiz or achieve a certain score on a previous grade Item. For more information see Conditional Release. 6. Choose a Response type :
- Unlimited allows users to continue taking the survey until the survey period is over.
- Editable allows users to save their responses and continue to see the survey until the survey period is over.
- Limited restricts users to the specified number of responses within the survey period.
7. Click Save Survey
Report Options
Reports can be customized to meet all your needs to release the results of the data collected to any user Role (i.e. Students or Instructors). You can create multiple survey reports. 1. From within a survey, click the Reports tab 2. Click Add Report and give the report a Report Name 3. Choose a Report Type a. Summary Report options
- Show aggregate data : displays the data collected for multiple choice questions, true and false, multi-select, and matching question types
- Show text responses : displays the data collected for long answers, short answers, and fill in the blank question types
- Individual Attempts: displays responses with user's name.
- Hide User Information: removes identifiable information.
4. Set your Release options. Here you can set when and to whom this survey will be released. Select Immediately or select a date from the drop down menu or calendar icon. Check the users and/or roles that you want to release the report to. 5. Click Save Report
Survey Layout/Questions The structure and layout of the survey is shown in the Layout/Questions tab. 1. From within a survey, click the Layout/Questions tab 2. Use the "Place questions per page" or the triangle icons to insert page breaks between questions. 3. Click Add/Edit Questions to re-order specific questions, add or remove questions or sections to this survey.
Re-Ordering Surveys 1. From the Manage Surveys page, click the Re-Order icon 2. Select a survey name and click the up or down arrows to move the survey to the desired list position. 3. Repeat step 3 for each survey name until you have achieved the desired order. 4. Click Save
Deleting Surveys 1. From the Manage Surveys page, click the Delete Surveys icon 2. Check the box beside the survey you wish to delete 3. Click the small trash can above the list of surveys 4. Click Survey List to return to the Manage Surveys page.
Viewing Survey Reports 1. From the Manage Surveys page, click the applicable survey name. 2. Click on the Survey Reports icon from the choices at the top of the survey page 
3. To view a report, click on the report name (you must have already created one or more survey reports) 4. Check the From and/or To fields and enter the appropriate dates if you want to restrict your report to a certain time frame. 5. Click Generate Report . 6. The survey report displays. Click the Print Report icon to print a copy of the results. 7. Click Go Back to return to the Manage Surveys page.
Viewing Survey Results To view survey results: 1. From the Manage Surveys page, click the results icon  beside the applicable survey. 2. Based on how you have setup the survey properties, you may see a list of all users or just the overall survey results (if anonymous) 3. Click on an individual attempt or the Overall Survey Results icon 4. Click Survey List to return to the main survey page.
Previewing a Survey To preview a survey: 1. From the Manage Surveys page, click the Preview icon beside a survey name. You are shown the survey questions as users would see them. It is always a good idea to preview a survey before releasing it to users. 
2. Click Surveys List to return to the Manage Surveys page. When previewing a survey, you are NOT shown any introduction message that you have set up. Also, if you answer and save the questions, you will not return any results.
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