Latest revision as of 16:29, 30 January 2018

Moodle questionnaires enable staff to obtain feedback from students, with an option for the results to be anonymous. To help with consistency and reduce repetitive tasks template questionnaires can be constructed and deployed across any number of modules.

To add a questionnaire you should turn on the editing and select it from the Activity chooser. If you cannot find it in here, it may be that it has not been installed.

Settings

The following sections describe the settings possible for questionnaires.

Name

Enter a name that describes the purpose of the questionnaire. This is what students will click on to access it on the Moodle course homepage.

Description

Add an optional description explaining how and why students should complete the questionnaire. Note: If you are allowing students to Save/Resume answers you might like to explain this here.

Timing

Set the date window for when users can complete the questionnaire. You can leave the boxes unchecked if you want the questionnaire to be continually available.

Response options

Type

Select whether users will be allowed to respond once, daily, weekly, monthly or an unlimited number of times (many).

Respondent Type

You can display your users' full names with each response by setting this to "fullname".
You can hide your users' identities from the responses by setting this to "anonymous".

Once the "anonymous" option has been set in a questionnaire, it's impossible to revert to the "fullname" option, for obvious privacy reasons. So be careful when you set your questionnaire to "anonymous".

Note: If your Moodle course allows guests, they will only be allowed to respond to a questionnaire whose responses have been set to anonymous.

Respondent Eligibility

Decide whether everyone can answer or whether you want to restrict it to tutor only or student only responses. For restricted access options remember to assign the correct roles either at the course or activity level. For example, if you put a questionnaire on the front page, intended for teachers only, then you will have to let Moodle know which users are teachers.

ALL Responses viewing

WHEN

You can specify when Roles with the "Read response summaries subject to open times" capability can see the responses of ALL respondents to submitted questionnaires (i.e. the general statistics tables).

Students can view ALL responses ->

After answering the questionnaire.
After the questionnaire is closed.
Always.
Never.

WHO (Which role can see what)

Starting with Questionnaire version 2.5, the "WHO" can view the ALL Responses report page settings have been moved to the Roles and Permissions settings.

As with all other Roles and capabilities settings in Moodle, you can set those permissions at site level, course level or activity level.

The following table sums up the correlation between the Questionnaire Response Options Settings and the Permissions settings. As you can see, the Roles and Permissions settings can OVERRIDE the Response options settings.

Note: 3.3 added the 'Never" option. If this is selected, and the user does not have the "Read all responses any time" capability, then they will not be able to see all the responses at any time.

Send submission notifications

Setting this to "Notification only" will use the Moodle notification system to notify roles with the "mod/questionnaire:submissionnotification" capability that a submission was made.

Setting this to "Full submission" will use the Moodle notification system to send the entire submission content to roles with the "mod/questionnaire:submissionnotification" when a submission is made. Note that full content will only be sent to notification plugins that support large messages (e.g. email).

Save/Resume answers

Setting this option allows users to save their answers to a questionnaire before submitting them. Users can leave the questionnaire unfinished and resume from the save point at a later date.

Allow branching questions

The Conditional Branching feature enables the Questionnaire creator to "branch" the respondent to different pages according to their choice of response to Yes/No, Dropdown boxes or Radio button questions. This option is enabled by default when you create a new questionnaire. If you do not plan to use this feature in the questionnaire, you should set it to No.

Auto numbering

If you have multiple questions or pages, you can choose to split them up and number them. You might want to disable automatic numbering for questionnaires with conditional branching.

Do not number questions or pages.
Auto number questions.
Auto number pages.
Auto number pages and questions.

Submission grade

Unlike the Quiz or Lesson Moodle activities the questionnaire activity is not meant to test the student's knowledge and therefore the responses cannot/should not be graded as correct or incorrect. However, in order to encourage the students to complete a questionnaire, you may choose to award the student a grade (on a 1-100 scale) upon completion.

Content Options

Select one of the radio button options. 'Create new' is the default.

You can create questionnaires using three different methods:

Create New:

This option allows you to create a completely new questionnaire from scratch.

Copy Existing:

This option copies a pre-existing questionnaire's content to a new questionnaire, pre-seeding the content. You can copy questionnaires belonging to the course, or ones specifically marked as 'template'.

Use Template:

This option consists of pre-existing templates from the activity that you can copy and edit into your questionnaire.

Use Public:

If a questionnaire has already been created (in another course on the same Moodle site) with the "public" setting, then you may use that "public" questionnaire in your own course(s). The number of settings available to such questionnaires is limited and you cannot edit its questions nor view the responses.
Example: If a public questionnaire has been created in course A, it can be "used" in courses B, C, ... All the responses from courses A, B, C, ... are collected in the public questionnaire created in course A (the original course where it was created) and are viewable there by the person (admin or teacher) who originally created it.

What next?

Once you have clicked Save:

Configure the questionnaire type

Add/Edit Questionnaire questions

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 {{Questionnaire}}
-==Open/Close dates==
+Moodle questionnaires enable staff to obtain feedback from students, with an option for the results to be anonymous. To help with consistency and reduce repetitive tasks template questionnaires can be constructed and deployed across any number of modules.
+To add a questionnaire you should turn on the editing and select it from the Activity chooser. If you cannot find it in here, it may be that it has not been installed.
+=Settings=
+The following sections describe the settings possible for questionnaires.
+[[File:questionnaire_settings.png]]
+==Name==
+Enter a name that describes the purpose of the questionnaire. This is what students will click on to access it on the Moodle course homepage.
+==Description==
+Add an optional description explaining how and why students should complete the questionnaire.
+Note: If you are allowing students to Save/Resume answers you might like to explain this here.
+==Timing==
 Set the date window for when users can complete the questionnaire. You can leave the boxes unchecked if you want the questionnaire to be continually available.
-==Type==
+==Response options==
+===Type===
 Select whether users will be allowed to respond once, daily, weekly, monthly or an unlimited number of times ('''many''').
-==Respondent Type==
+===Respondent Type===
 You can display your users' full names with each response by setting this to "fullname".<br /> You can hide your users' identities from the responses by setting this to "anonymous".
-'''Note'''.- If your Moodle course allows guests, they will only be allowed to respond to a questionnaire whose responses have been set to ''anonymous''.
+Once the "anonymous" option has been set in a questionnaire, it's impossible to revert to the "fullname" option, for obvious privacy reasons. So be careful when you set your questionnaire to "anonymous".
-==Respondent Eligibility==
+'''Note''': If your Moodle course allows guests, they will only be allowed to respond to a questionnaire whose responses have been set to ''anonymous''.
+===Respondent Eligibility===
 Decide whether everyone can answer or whether you want to restrict it to tutor only or student only responses.  For restricted access options remember to assign the correct roles either at the course or activity level.  For example, if you put a questionnaire on the front page, intended for teachers only, then you will have to let Moodle know which users are teachers.
-==Questionnaire type==
+===ALL Responses viewing===
-;Private
+====WHEN====
-:Only available on the course it was set up in.
-;Public
+You can specify '''when''' Roles with the "''Read response summaries subject to open times''" capability can see the responses of ALL respondents to submitted questionnaires (i.e. the general statistics tables).
-:Allows the questionnaire to be shared across multiple courses. Questions/content are maintained by the original creator.
-;Template
+''' Students can view ALL responses -> '''
-:Creates a template for a questionnaire that can be used when new questionnaires are created. This questionnaire is not used directly but stored for future use.
-==Save/Resume answers==
+# ''' After answering the questionnaire'''.
+# ''' After the questionnaire is closed'''.
+# ''' Always.'''
+# ''' Never.'''
-Decide whether the questionnaire can be saved and completed over a period of time, or whether it needs to be completed in one go.
+====WHO (Which role can see what)====
-==Survey Options==
+Starting with Questionnaire version 2.'''5''', the ''"WHO" can view the ALL Responses report'' page settings have been moved to the Roles and Permissions settings.
-;Create new
+As with all other Roles and capabilities settings in Moodle, you can set those permissions at site level, course level or activity level.
-:Define a new set of survey questions and responses
-;Copy existing
+The following table sums up the correlation between the Questionnaire Response Options Settings and the Permissions settings. As you can see, the Roles and Permissions settings can OVERRIDE the Response options settings.
-:Use a previously created template as the basis for your questionnaire - you can edit some questions/content.
-;Use public
+[[Image:2014-02-11_14-26-23.jpg]]
-:Use a previously created public survey - you cannot edit the questions/content.
-;Create new
-==Public questionnaire roll out to multiple courses==
+Note: 3.3 added the ''''Never'''" option. If this is selected, and the user does not have the "''Read all responses any time''" capability, then they will not be able to see all the responses at any time.
-It is possible to create a Public questionnaire which can be placed in several simultaneous courses, yet the responses are not visible to the teachers of those courses. In fact, the responses are only accessible in the original public questionnaire. A good application of this setup is for course evaluations which you want students to take. In such an example, you don't want your instructors to view or alter those responses.
+===Send submission notifications ===
+Setting this to "Notification only" will use the Moodle notification system to notify roles with the "''mod/questionnaire:submissionnotification''" capability that a submission was made.
-Here's how you do it:
+Setting this to "Full submission" will use the Moodle notification system to send the entire submission content to  roles with the "''mod/questionnaire:submissionnotification''" when a submission is made. Note that full content will only be sent to notification plugins that support large messages (e.g. email).
-<ol>
-<li>Create a course that will simply be a shell for any public questionnaires. Give it whatever title you like. You can hide the course entirely. </li>
-<li>Create your questionnaire in this course. Be sure to select '''Public''' for the questionnaire type.</li>
-<li>Build all of the questionnaire questions in this public questionnaire.</li>
-<li>Navigate to the course where you want to place the questionnaire for respondents.</li>
-<li>Select the option to add a questionnaire. Complete the creation screen. For Type, select Respond once. For Respondent Eligibility, select Students only. '''For Questionnaire type, select Private.''' Then select the public questionnaire you created in the other course.</li>
-<li>After you save your changes, the same screen will appear. Note that the questionnaire type now says "Public," and the selected public questionnaire is shown below.</li>
-<li>Test it out! Student responses will appear in the original questionnaire, but will not be visible at all in the local questionnaire. Teachers will be able to preview the survey, but will not be able to respond to it or to view responses.</li>
-</ol>
-==Template questionnaire used in multiple courses==
+===Save/Resume answers===
-When the responses to your questionnaire should remain accessible in the course in which it resides, but the questionnaire itself will follow a standard format with the same questions, use a template-type of questionnaire. So instead of re-creating the questions for each questionnaire, you can apply the template questionnaire to each one you create.
+Setting this option allows users to save their answers to a questionnaire before submitting them. Users can leave the questionnaire unfinished and resume from the save point at a later date.
-Here's how you do it:
+===Allow branching questions===
-<ol>
-<li>Create a course that will simply be a shell for any template questionnaires. Give it whatever title you like. You can hide the course entirely. </li>
+The Conditional Branching feature enables the Questionnaire creator to "branch" the respondent to different pages according to their choice of response to Yes/No, Dropdown boxes or Radio button questions. This option is enabled by default when you create a new questionnaire. If you do not plan to use this feature in the questionnaire, you should set it to No.
-<li>Create your questionnaire in this course. Be sure to select '''Template''' for the questionnaire type.</li>
-<li>Build all of the questionnaire questions in this template questionnaire.</li>
+===Auto numbering===
-<li>Navigate to the course where you want to place the questionnaire for respondents.</li>
+If you have multiple questions or pages, you can choose to split them up and number them. You might want to disable automatic numbering for questionnaires with conditional branching.
-<li>Select the option to add a questionnaire. Complete the creation screen. For Type, select whichever option you like. For Respondent Eligibility, select Students only. Then select the template questionnaire you created in the other course. '''For Questionnaire type, select Private.''' </li>
+# ''' Do not number questions or pages'''.
-<li>After you save your changes, the same screen will appear. Note that the questionnaire type now says "Private" and the selected template questionnaire is shown below.</li>
+# ''' Auto number questions'''.
-<li>Test it out! Student responses will appear in the local questionnaire instead of in the template questionnaire you created outside of the course. </li>
+# ''' Auto number pages.'''
-</ol>
+# ''' Auto number pages and questions.'''
+===Submission grade===
+Unlike the Quiz or Lesson Moodle activities the questionnaire activity is not meant to test the student's knowledge and therefore the responses cannot/should not be graded as correct or incorrect. However, in order to encourage the students to complete a questionnaire, you may choose to award the student a grade (on a 1-100 scale) upon completion.
+==Content Options==
+Select one of the radio button options. 'Create new' is the default.
+'' You can create questionnaires using three different methods: ''
+:''' Create New: '''
+::This option allows you to create a completely new questionnaire from scratch.
+:''' Copy Existing: '''
+::This option copies a pre-existing questionnaire's content to a new questionnaire, pre-seeding the content. You can copy questionnaires belonging to the course, or ones specifically marked as 'template'.
+:''' Use Template: '''
+::This option consists of pre-existing templates from the activity that you can copy and edit into your questionnaire.
+:''' Use Public: '''
+::If a questionnaire has already been created (in another course on the same Moodle site) with the "public" setting, then you may use that "public" questionnaire in your own course(s). The number of settings available to such questionnaires is limited and you cannot edit its questions nor view the responses. <br />''''' Example: ''''' If a public questionnaire has been created in course A, it can be "used" in courses B, C, ... All the responses from courses A, B, C, ... are collected in the public questionnaire created in course A (the original course where it was created) and are viewable there by the person (admin or teacher) who originally created it.
+=What next?=
+Once you have clicked Save:
+[https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Setting_up_a_questionnaire Configure the questionnaire type]
+[https://docs.moodle.org/34/en/Editing_Questionnaire_questions Add/Edit Questionnaire questions]
-If you don't want your teachers to view or alter questionnaire responses, just define this in the Define Roles settings for Questionnaires. In Define Roles, you can limit teachers from being able to delete responses from the questionnaire, or be able to submit their own questionnaires or view responses.
 [[Category:Teacher]]
+[[es:Añadiendo/editando un cuestionario]]
+[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un questionnaire]]

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