Create a Survey in D2L Brightspace

Create a survey that displays student names with results

1. Select Course Admin from the Course Tools menu in the course navigation bar.
2. Select Surveys.
3. Select New Survey.
4. Enter the Name of your survey.
5. Important: Do not toggle make results anonymous.
6. In the Survey Questions area, select Add/Edit Questions. Learn about adding questions in these articles. Once finished adding questions, select Done Editing Questions.
7. Back on the Properties tab, select Save.
8. Navigate to the Restrictions tab.
9. Set the status to Hide from users.
10. Select a start and end date (if applicable). Select the ‘display in calendar’ checkbox. 
11. Set the number of Attempts Attempted.
12. Select Save and Close.

Once you've created a survey, you can further customize it by adjusting the survey properties, adding date restrictions and release conditions, limiting the number of attempts, associating learning objectives, and creating reports. For additional instructions, review the sections below.

Create an anonymous survey

1. Select Course Admin from the Course Tools menu in the course navigation bar.
2. Select Surveys.
3. Select New Survey.
4. Enter the Name of your survey.
5. In the Survey Questions area, click Add/Edit Questions. Learn about adding questions in these articles. Once finished adding questions, select Done Editing Questions.
6. Back on the Properties tab, select the Make results anonymous checkbox and select Save. Select Yes in the confirmation window.
7. Navigate to the Restrictions tab.
8. Set the status to Hide from users.
9. Select a start and end date (if applicable). Select the ‘display in calendar’ checkbox. 
10. Set the number of Attempts Attempted.
11. Select Save and Close.

Survey reports and statistics

Use survey reports to gather information on survey data. Survey reports collect and present more types of information than is available through results. Choose a report type to display question statistics, question details, users statistics, attempt details, or user attempts. You can also select a release date and choose which roles have permission to view each report.

Create a report

1. Select Course Admin from the Course Tools menu in the course navigation bar.
2. Select Surveys.
3. Select Edit from the survey’s menu.
4. On the Reports Setup tab, select Add Report.
5. Enter a Report Name.
6. Select a Report Type: summary report or individual attempts.  
7. You can choose to immediately release a report after a survey submission, or enter an alternative date and time.
8. In the Release Report To section, select the checkbox beside every role that you want to release the report to. Remember to select your Instructor role!
9. Select Save.
10. Select Save and Close.

Review reports for a survey

You can export survey statistics and reports to a CSV file for data analysis. You must create a report first before you can view or export reports.

1. Select Course Admin from the Course Tools menu in the course navigation bar.
2. Select Surveys.
3. Select Reports from the survey’s menu.
4. Click on the report name.
5. Do any of the following:
   • Select Generate HTML to view the report in your browser.
   • Select Generate CSV to open the report as a CSV file on your device.
   • Select Generate Excel to open the report as an Excel file on your device.
6. Select Done when finished generating the report.

Review statistics for a survey

1. Select Course Admin from the Course Tools menu in the course navigation bar.
2. Select Surveys.
3. Select Statistics from the survey’s menu.
4. Search for students and their listed attempt types in the Users tab.
   Note: Based on how you have set up the survey properties, you might get a list of all users or just the overall survey results with anonymous responses.
5. Select an individual attempt to view a specific student's results, or select View Overall Results icon at the bottom of the page to view the number of attempts per question within a survey.