Surveys | How to Create a Survey
Surveys are an excellent way to solicit feedback from participants regarding any aspect of a course. It is possible to gather anonymous or non-anonymous opinions and information from users. Unlike Quizzes, survey questions do not have to have right or wrong answers and Likert-style rating questions are possible.
This article shows how to:
Creating a Survey
To access the Surveys Homepage, please visit the following manual on how to Navigate to Surveys
On the Surveys homepage, under the Manage Surveys tab,
- Click on New Survey

General Settings
This will open the New Survey homepage, in the Properties tab under the heading General section,
- Give a Name to the Survey
- (Optional) Under Category, click on the downward arrow, a drop-down menu will appear, select the category you want to assign the Survey to
OR
Click on [add category] - to create a new category - (Optional) Check the box give instant feedback if you want students to receive feedback immediately after Survey submission
- (Optional) Check the box make results anonymous if you want the students to fill out the Surveys anonymously
Once you save the option make results anonymous, it is not possible to change it! In addition, you cannot use this option in combination with Release Conditions.

Survey Questions
To add questions to the Survey, scroll down to the other sections,
- Click on Add/Edit Questions

This will open the newly created Survey page
Please visit the following article for further information on How to add questions to a Survey

Description/ Submission Message
- By default, the Description message is off and there is already a default Submission message,
(Optional) Click on Expand description/submission Message

This will unfold more options,
- Tick the circle next to on, the description message will appear on top of the Survey
- Add a Description message in the HTML Editor
- Add a Submission message in the HTML Editor
By default, there is already a submission message

Page Footer
By default, the Page footer is set to off,
- (Optional) Click on Expand page footer

This will unfold more options,
- Tick the circle next to on to add a page footer, this will be shown at the bottom of the Survey
- Type in the HTML Editor the page footer

Saving options for the Survey
The progress or the Survey is not automatically saved while being created. You will have to click on the buttons on the bottom of the page to do so:

- Save and Close - this will save and close the Survey
- Save - to only save the Survey
- Cancel - to cancel the Survey
Now you know how to create a Survey in Brightspace!
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