Creating a survey

An overview

You can use surveys to get feedback from your students or to provide bonus points to those who respond. Graded surveys appear in the Syllabus, Gradebook, Calendar, and To Do Lists.

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  • For surveys, the Student Analysis must be downloaded as a CSV file. For surveys, item analysis is not available.
  • Before or after a survey receives submissions, the anonymous option can be enabled or disabled, allowing a user with proper access to see a student's identify and responses. 

Survey creation

To create a survey, follow the directions in the steps below.

Step 1: Select Quizzes from the course navigation.

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Step 2: Select the + Quiz button.

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Step 3: Select Quiz Engine. Canvas has two Quiz engines. Surveys can be created using using classic quizzes. Select the Classic Quizzes option. Then click the Submit button.

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Step 4: Add survey details. In the text boxes, give your survey a name and fill in any survey instructions.

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Step 5: Select the survey type you wish to create from the Quiz Type drop-down box, choose Graded survey or Ungraded survey.

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Step 6: Choose your survey options. Put your survey in an Assignment group, give it a Score, and fill out all of the survey Options (Shuffle answers, time limit). You can also Keep submissions anonymous. This anonymous option can be enabled or removed before or after survey submissions for both graded and ungraded surveys. 

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Step 7: Choose the available dates. Your survey might also have a due date and be available From/Until dates.

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Step 8: Add question(s) next. Select the Questions option. By clicking the New Question button, you may manually construct a new survey question. 

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Step 9: Name survey questions. Survey questions are not automatically numbered. Fill in the question text section with a custom name for your survey question. Custom names can make it easier to identify survey questions. Students always receive survey questions in numerical sequence, regardless of the question's name (i.e. Question 1, Question 2). Please check the question type guide (Links to an external site.)  to learn about the many options available for questions. If you want to make a question with a quantitative scale, you can use the Multiple dropdowns question type to make a Likert scale question. For more details, refer to the Likert scale guide. (Links to an external site.)

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bulb.pngNote that if a file upload question is included in an anonymous survey, the downloaded files will have the student's name in the file name. Do not include file upload questions in a survey to maintain anonymity.

Step 10: To save your work and preview the survey, click the Save option. You should not make your survey public until it is complete. Click the Save & Publish option when you're ready to publish your survey and make it available to students.

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Step 11: Click the Preview button to see a sample of the survey. Click the Publish button when you're ready for students to see the survey in the course.

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