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==Introduction==
==Introduction==
A survey can be delivered in a lot of different ways for a lot of different purposes, so there are many settings that allow you to tweak the survey according to your needs. From a general point of view a survey is composed by several "elements", and each element can be of two types, "question" or "format". A "question" is where users actually answers to the survey, such as radio buttons, drop down menus or check boxes, "formats" are graphical elements such as labels, page breaks and fieldsets.
Survey is a moodle module allowing the creation of custom forms to gather remote user data.
 
===Relevant terms===
From a general point of view a survey is composed by several "elements", and each element can be of two types, "question" or "format". A "question" is where users actually answers to the survey, such as radio buttons, drop down menus or check boxes, "formats" are graphical elements such as labels, page breaks and fieldsets.


The following image shows 4 element types, 1 "format" of type filedset (the frame surrounding the questions) and 3 "question" types (autofill, select, radio button)
The following image shows 4 element types, 1 "format" of type filedset (the frame surrounding the questions) and 3 "question" types (autofill, select, radio button)


[[File:survey_elements.png]]
[[File:survey_elements.png]]
===Relevant terms===


* [[Rationale]]
* [[Rationale]]
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* [[Survey settings]]
* [[Survey settings]]
* [[Element types]]
* [[Element types]]
* [[Templates]]
* [[Using Survey]]
* [[Using Survey]]
* [[Survey FAQ]]
* [[Survey FAQ]]

Revision as of 10:26, 22 May 2013

The Survey module allows teacher to create surveys with rich set of question types and formats. Survey module can also be used with built in templates such as ATTLS, COLLES and Critical incidents.

Introduction

Survey is a moodle module allowing the creation of custom forms to gather remote user data.

Relevant terms

From a general point of view a survey is composed by several "elements", and each element can be of two types, "question" or "format". A "question" is where users actually answers to the survey, such as radio buttons, drop down menus or check boxes, "formats" are graphical elements such as labels, page breaks and fieldsets.

The following image shows 4 element types, 1 "format" of type filedset (the frame surrounding the questions) and 3 "question" types (autofill, select, radio button)

survey elements.png