Survey user docs

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

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.

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)

Relevant terms

• Survey settings
• Element types
• Using_Survey
• Survey_FAQ

The main features of the survey module are:

• branching based on answer given by the users
• mandatory question answer
• user entry validation
• capability based access to survey elements
• group permissions for users answering surveys form same or different organizations
• pluggable question types
• pluggable format types
• pluggable master templates
• pluggable reports