To create a survey:
- Go to the folder you want your survey to appear.
- Under the Actions Menu, click Create a new item.
- Choose to add a Survey.
- Add a name and description for your survey.
- Decide how responses are made, Who can answer? How many times can people answer? How are answers saved? Send a 'thank you' email?
- Formatting - show progress information through a progress bar, percentage complete or pages complete.
- For more information on the Responding, Permissions and Results sections, see setting permissions on surveys.
- Click Save to create your survey.
Adding questions:
- Add your questions, using our selection of different question types - click the link for more information.
- As well as questions, you can also add text/images or page breaks which can be placed at any point amongst the questions.
- When you've picked a question type, you'll be asked to enter a question number and the question itself.
- Depending on the question type, different options will be shown on the Add Question page.
- Click Save to add this question. You can then repeat the process to add the next question and so on.
Kahootz Tips: If some of your questions have similar question layouts you can use the Copy question icon to create a new question based on an existing one.
You can also copy questions (individually or in sets) from other surveys you can access - see the Actions Menu for Copy questions from another survey.
Re-order your questions by clicking on Re-order the questions found under Actions.
Previewing the survey:
- Preview your survey to make sure it looks how you want it to. Click on Preview, found in the Actions Menu.
- You can check the layout and paging of your questions and also how any progress bars appear.
- If you need to make any changes you can modify individual questions and re-order existing questions.
Opening the survey:
When you've added in all your questions, previewed how it looks and are ready to get your responses, you'll need to Open the survey.
- Don't forget to preview your survey before opening it, click on Preview in the Actions Menu.
- Under the Actions Menu click on Open the Survey.
- You can pick an automatic close date if suitable, or leave that blank to keep the survey open forever (or until manually closed).
- Notify your workspace members about the survey if applicable - that's often a good way to let them know they need to respond.
Once a survey has been closed no further responses can be submitted but you can modify the questions then re-open it.
Re-opening the survey:
If you need to re-open the survey:
- Go to the survey that you want to re-open.
- Click Manage this Survey.
- Click Open this Survey.
- You can choose whether or not you want to delete any previous responses.
- Click Open the Survey.
Duplicating surveys:
To duplicate a survey:
- Create a new survey.
- On the Add an item to a survey page, under Actions is a Copy questions from another survey link, click on it.
- Choose which workspace contains the survey you want to copy.
- You'll then see a simple list of all the surveys in that workspace - select the one you want to copy.
- Tick the questions you want to copy. If you want to copy all of them, you can select all by using the tick box in the title row.
- You can repeat this process to pick questions from different surveys - you're not limited to just one.
- After copying, you can modify and re-order the questions if you need to - everything you can normally do in a survey.
When you are happy with your questions, click Open this Survey, under Actions.