Surveys

Additional Module

Insight can be used to create and publish surveys to parents or pupils. When there is an available survey, users will be prompted to take part when they log in, and the results can analysed.

Creating a Survey

The survey page will show a list of all of the surveys that have been created so far.

On the top toolbar there are a number of buttons to manage and analyse surveys.

Button	Effect
	Create a new survey
	Edit an existing survey
	Clone an existing survey
	Edit the questions for a survey
	Choose which users are invited to take part in the survey
	Analyse results
	Delete a survey
	Edit the answers that users are able to select

Click on the Add button to create a new survey. A survey will need a title a start date and an end date. Surveys can also be given an introductory message and a note for users when they complete the survey. You can also mark a survey as requiring an anonymous analysis, which means that you will not be able to find out which users the answers belong to when analysing the results.

Once a survey has been created, you will need to add questions to the survey and decide who the survey is sent to.

Survey Questions

A survey needs to have questions assigned to it. Select a survey then click the Questions button. Each question can be given an optional context, which is additional text to help explain the question.

The response label option allows you to choose the answers that parents are allowed to give. You can click the Question Mark Button to see the answers that go with each of the Response Labels.

If you allow users to view others' responses, they will be able to see what percentage of other users have chosen each response.

Questions can also be reordered. Click and drag using the up/down arrow icon at the top left of the question.

Skip rules can be used if you want users to skip some questions if they give particular answers. For example, if you have a question "How much do you like pasta bake?" and a user answers "Not at all", then there isn't much point in asking which flavour of pasta bake is their favourite.

Click the Skip Rules Button and a window will open showing the various answers available, according to the Response Labels. For each possible answer, you can decide which question the user will be taken to. If you select Completion, then the survey will be finished if/when the user selects that answer.

Response labels

Click on the Response Labels Button to toggle the response labels. Each response label contains a set of answers that users can give for each question and can hold a maximum of 5 answers. Users will see the answers as either rating stars or buttons.

There are 3 buttons next to each of the Response Labels.

Button	Effect
	Edit the name and display of the Response Label
	Edit the answers available in the Response Label
	Delete the Response Label

To add, edit or delete response labels within a response label type, click on the Edit Labels Button. In the pop-up window, use the "Add" button to enter a new response label; an "Add" button will not be shown if there are already five response labels. You can reorder the answers by dragging them using the up/down icon on the left of each answer.

Participants

Once you have created your survey, it must be issued to users. Select the survey and click the Participants Button. This will open a window where you can select students.

The survey will be issued to every user that is linked to the students you select. Use the groupings on the left to select specific groups of students. You can either click the Add All Button to add all pupils from a group, or click on specific pupil names to add only those pupils.

How the survey appears to users

When users log in, they will be prompted to take part in the survey.

Users can then answer each question, and add comments and see the percentage of people that selected the same answer as them (depending on the survey configuration).

Once the survey has been completed, users will see the completion note and be given an option to finalise the survey, or keep it open so they can come back to it later. If users opt to keep the survey open, they will be prompted to take part again the next time they log in.

Analysing results

Click on the analyse Results Button to view the outcome of your survey.

At the top of the analysis, you will see a summary of the users that have been involved and some buttons. You can see what each of the buttons do by hovering your mouse over them.

An analysis of each question will also be shown. You will be able to see the percentage of users that selected each answer and an overall rating for the answers that the users gave. If you click the Comment Button, you will see all of the comments entered by users.