Polls and Surveys

The Feedback activity allows you to create and conduct surveys to collect feedback. The Feedback activity is ideal for course or teacher evaluations.

Similar Activities

Feedback is similar to the Questionnaire activity. Both activities have the same core features and for most situations, you can choose whichever activity has the question types you need or which you just like better. Shared functionality includes:

• Export responses to external file types such as CSV, XLSX, HTML, JSON, ODS, PDF
• Choose from a variety of question types (though the exact choices differ by activity)
  
• Decide whether the students can see the results
• Limit the number of attempts for the survey

However, the Questionnaire activity offers some more robust features than the Feedback activity. If you want any of these features, choose Questionnaire over Feedback:

• Students can save and resume the questionnaire at a later time.
• Teachers can create branching questions i.e., questions that only display based on how students respond to previous questions.

1. In your course with the editing turned on, click Add an activity or resource in the section where you want to add the activity.
2. Select Feedback from the activity chooser window.
   
3. Add a name (required) and a description (optional) for the activity. 
4. Scroll down to the Question and submission settings section and click to expand it.
   • Record user names: Select whether the survey will be anonymous or will record the students' names with their submissions.
   • Allow multiple submissions: Select whether students can answer the survey once or multiple times.
   • Enable notification of submissions: If you would like an email every time a student submits the survey, select Yes.
5. The rest of the settings on this page are optional. You can customize your students' experience with the activity by adjusting these.
   • Availability: If you would like to limit when students can respond to the survey, set an activity open date (allow answers from), an activity close date (allow answers to), or both.
6. Click the Save and display button

Within the Feedback activity, you can add questions to the survey and adjust its layout and formatting. Both of these options are managed within the Edit questions tab of the activity.

1. From the activity's main page, click the Edit questions tab.
   
2. Select the type of question or layout option you want to add from the drop down list. Enter your question details and click Save question.
   • Question options
     • Longer Text Answer: This option is for creating a text box (you specify how big it will appear in rows and columns) which people can write a long answer into.
     • Multiple choice: There are three variations of this question: Multiple choice single answer (students select only one answer from a set of radio buttons), Multiple choice, multiple answers (students select 1+ of the answer choices), and Multiple choice - single answer allowed (dropdown list) (students select only one answer from a dropdown list)
     • Multiple Choice (Rated): This is similar to the other multiple choice options, except that each option has a numerical value associated with it. You have the choice of using radio buttons or a drop-down list to display the answers. 
     • Numeric answer: Ask a question which must have a number as an answer and specify the acceptable range e.g., "How many arms would you like, if more than 2 were possible? (please specify 0-10)" with a range of 0-10 set in the options. It helps if you specify the acceptable range in the question text.
     • Short Text Answer: This option lets you specify a single line answer, with an input box which is a set number of characters long (you choose). You also specify the maximum number of characters you will accept, so that the answer is not too long and/or does not run over the length of the box on screen.
   • Layout/format options
     • Add a page break: For longer surveys, spread your questions across multiple pages.
     • Captcha: A test to make sure a real person is filling in the form and not an automatic spamming program of some sort. We do not recommend using this question type since LATTE is limited to the Brandeis community and is not at risk from bots.
     • Information: This allows you to choose to display the course and/ or the category where the feedback is located.
     • Label: Like a standard Moodle label, this allows you to add arbitrary text between questions allowing for extra explanation or to divide the Feedback into sections.
3. Adjust the order of your questions as needed by clicking and holding the arrows icon and dragging the question to your desired location.
   
4. Repeat until you have entered each question you want and have finalized the layout. 

Analysis

From the activity's main page, click the Analysis tab. This page shows a graphical summary of the results of each question.

Show responses

From the activity's main page, click the Show responses tab. This page allows the teacher to view and download survey response data in various formats. If required, teachers can delete individual responses on this page.

Show non-respondents

From the activity's main page, click the Show non-respondents tab. If your survey is set to Anonymous, you will not see this tab. On this page, you can select some or all students who have not yet completed the Feedback activity and send them a reminder message.