By using this activity you can construct surveys using a variety of question types, for the purpose of gathering data from users.

Setting up a new questionnaire

To add a questionnaire, switch editing on, go to your course’s homepage and click on the + Add an activity or resource button.

This will give you a screen full of options. Click on the Questionnaire icon to open the New Questionnaire page.

Enter the name of the questionnaire and (if you require one) a short description of it in the Name and Description fields. If you want this description to appear on your course homepage just below the link to the questionnaire, you can tick the Display description on main page tickbox.

There’s a variety of settings for creating a questionnaire, each with a help icon that includes more information.

• Availability allows you to limit when learners can fill in the questionnaire.
• Response options includes settings for your questionnaire.
• Content options includes templates that you can use.
• Common module settings includes availability and language options, and is also relevant if your course uses groups.
• Restrict access includes the option to add restrictions, if for example you only want your questionnaire to be available after a certain date, or after a learner has completed another action.

Click on the Save and display button. Now you've set up a questionnaire you can add some questions to it.

Note that you can edit the questionnaire’s settings at any time before making it available to learners; editing the settings after that may cause problems for any learners who have already completed it.

Creating questions

Having clicked on Save and display you should now see the front page of your questionnaire. There'll be an Add question button and a note that no questions have been added yet.

Click on the button. This will open a new screen with four tabs: Advanced settings, Questions, Feedback and Non-respondents. You are in the Questions tab.

Under Add questions is a drop-down list of all the question types:

• Check Boxes
• Date
• Dropdown Box
• Essay Box
• Label
• Numeric
• Page Break
• Radio Buttons
• Rate (scale 1...5)
• Text Box
• Yes/No.

The Moodle website has guidance on how to best use these question types.

Once you have created a question it will appear in the Manage questions list.

A new tab at the top of the screen, Preview, will show you what your question will look like for learners.

You can also define other settings for your questionnaire in the Advanced settings tab.

There’s a variety of settings for defining how your questionnaire works in the Advanced settings tab, each with a help icon that includes more information.

• Content options includes settings for the questionnaire type, title and subtitle, and additional information.
• Submission options includes settings for the page that learners see after completing the questionnaire and an associated email option.

Click on the Save and return to course button.