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WebLearn: Surveys

Today’s arrangements

Your presenters are Fawei Geng and Jill Fresen

Length of the course: 3 hours

Resources: Course Handbook

Your safety and comfort are important

• Where is the fire exit?

• The toilets are along the corridor outside the lecture rooms

• The rest area is where you registered;it has vending machines and a water cooler

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What will be covered ?

• Use of surveys

• Comparison of survey tools

• Overview of the WebLearn Surveys tool

• Three steps in creating a survey:– Create a template

– Create a survey based on the template

– Assign the survey to recipients

• Use the WebLearn Surveys tool to build your own survey

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Use of surveys

Questionnaire design

Perhaps now you'll fill in my questionnaire?

From www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/grahamh/RM1web/QuestionnaireDesign2010.ppt

Use of surveys

1. Oxford Learning Institute:

http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/

2. Tools and best practices for conducting web surveys:

http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page5048.cfm

3. Correspondence course: Sample survey theory and methods (US National Agricultural Statistics Service):

http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/reports/course%20notes%200906.pdf

4. Use of electronic surveys in course evaluation (Moss & Hendry, 2002):

http://www.speakeasydesigns.com/SDSU/student/SAGE/compsprep/

Electronic_Surveys_in_Course_Evaluations.pdf

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Comparison of survey tools:

• WebLearn Surveys tool

• WebLearn Tests tool

• Survey Monkey

• Bristol Online Surveys

• Ostrakon

Comparison of survey tools

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WebLearn Surveys tool

Complete a simple survey as a student

Join a site - Survey Tool Practice (instructions on p23)

Login to WebLearn

In ‘My Active Sites’, click Survey Tool Practice

On the homepage, click on the link: A WebLearn survey

About the WebLearn Surveys tool

Create an online survey

Deliver to WebLearn users or the general public

View or export survey results or survey reports

Use for course evaluation, feedback or general data collection purposes

Survey Dashboard

Get to know the terminology

Survey creator (maintainer/contributor)

Survey respondents

Survey

WebLearn site

participants

Ad-hoc groups

General public

Template – a set of questions (items)

My Surveys

- Specifications such as dates etc

- All surveys that you created

Three steps in creating a survey

Assign the survey to a group of respondents

3

1 Create a template –Create new template

master list

questions…

2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings specifications

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Step 1 – Create a template

Create a new template or Use an existing one

Re-use an existing template as is

Modify an existing template

Click Templates to see all existing templates

Copy your required template, then edit it

Create a new template from scratch

Click Create new template

Add your questions

Create a new template

1

Add a question (a)

Question types

1

Add a question (b) 1

See example on next slide

1 Add a question (c)

Questions to evaluate lecturers

Same set of questions is automatically repeated for all people with maintain or contribute role in the

WebLearn site

Edit template 1

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Edit template 1

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Exercise 1:

• Create template

• Add questions

Three steps in creating a survey

1 Create a template –Create new template

2

Assign the survey to a group of respondents

Start new survey – Configure the survey settingsand

3

master list

questions…

specifications…

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Step 2 – Start new survey

Click Start new survey

On the next page, set the start, closing dates, notifications, etc.

Select your template and configure the settings

Now you have a template…

Add a survey title and instructions

Select your template

Create a new survey (a) 2

Select your template

Create a new survey (b) 2 All three dates must be entered

Use ‘Login’ if survey respondents have a WebLearn account

Insert a suitable email address

email notifications

Set email reminders

Three steps in creating a survey

1 Create a template –Create new questionnaire

2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings and

master list

questions…

specifications…

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Assign the survey to a group of recipients

3

Assign respondents3Now you have a survey…

Login Don’t have to login

WebLearn site participants

• Known respondents• Tracking of completion• Non-respondents get

reminders

• Known respondents• No tracking• All get reminders

Ad-hoc groups• Known respondents• Tracking of completion• Must have WL account• Non-respondents get

reminders

• Known respondents• No tracking• All get reminders

Unassigned(general public) XXX

• Unknown respondents• No tracking• No reminders

Assign respondents3

They can only take the survey via the link that is generated in the email notification

They can take the survey either in a WebLearn site where the Surveys tool

is added or via the link that is generated in the email notification

For a public survey, just click “Next’ without choosing respondents

Three steps in creating a survey

1 Create a template –Create new template

2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settingsand

master list

questions…

specifications…

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Assign the survey to a group of respondents

3

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Exercise 2:

• Create new survey

• Assign to participants

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Example:

• Masters in EBHC

• Course evaluation

• Survey results

Course Evaluation Questionnaire

Course Evaluation

Surveys tool in the site

List of available surveys -

links

Respondents’ view of survey

Scale question with a comment box

Optional text field for name

My surveys page

View partial results

View final results

My surveys page

View partial results

View final results

My surveys page

Survey results

If the survey respondents where required to login

Example of PDF summary report

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Summary

Questions