WebLearn: Surveys

1. WebLearn: Surveys

2. Today’s arrangements • Your presenters are Fawei Geng and Jill Fresen • Length of the course: 3 hours • Resources: Course Handbook

3. ♫♪ 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

4. 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

5. Use of surveys

6. Questionnaire design Perhaps now you'll fill in my questionnaire? From www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/grahamh/RM1web/QuestionnaireDesign2010.ppt

7. Use of surveys Oxford Learning Institute: http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/ Tools and best practices for conducting web surveys: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page5048.cfm Correspondence course: Sample survey theory and methods (US National Agricultural Statistics Service): http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/reports/course%20notes%200906.pdf Use of electronic surveys in course evaluation (Moss & Hendry, 2002): http://www.speakeasydesigns.com/SDSU/student/SAGE/compsprep/ Electronic_Surveys_in_Course_Evaluations.pdf

8. Comparison of survey tools: • WebLearn Surveys tool • WebLearn Tests tool • Survey Monkey • Bristol Online Surveys • Ostrakon

9. Comparison of survey tools

10. WebLearn Surveys tool

11. 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

12. About the WebLearn Surveys tool Create an online survey Deliver to WebLearn users or thegeneral public View or export survey results or survey reports Use for course evaluation, feedback or general data collection purposes

13. Survey Dashboard

14. 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) MySurveys • Specifications such as dates etc • All surveys that you created

15. Three steps in creating a survey master list 1 Create a template – Create new template questions… MT 2010 TT 2010 2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings HT 2010 specifications 3 Assign the survey to a group of respondents

16. Step 1 – Create a template Create a new template from scratch Re-use an existing template as is Modify an existing template Click Create new template Click Templatesto see all existing templates Add your questions Copy your required template, then edit it Create a new template orUse an existing one

17. Create a new template 1

18. Add a question (a) 1 Question types

19. Add a question (b) 1

20. Add a question (c) 1 See example on next slide

21. Questions to evaluate lecturers Same set of questions is automatically repeated for all people with maintain or contribute role in the WebLearn site

22. Edit template 1 preview edit delete

23. Edit template 1

24. Exercise 1: Create template Add questions

25. Three steps in creating a survey MT 2010 TT 2010 HT 2010  master list 1 Create a template – Create new template questions… 2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings and specifications… 3 Assign the survey to a group of respondents

26. Step 2 – Start new survey Now you have a template… Select your template and configure the settings Click Start new survey Add a survey title and instructions Select your template On the next page, set the start, closing dates, notifications, etc.

27. Create a new survey (a) 2 Select your template

28. Create a new survey (b) 2 All three dates must be entered Use ‘Login’ if survey respondents have a WebLearn account email notifications Set email reminders Insert a suitable email address

29. Three steps in creating a survey MT 2010 TT 2010 HT 2010  master list 1 Create a template – Create new questionnaire questions…  2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings and specifications… 3 Assign the survey to a group of recipients

30. Assign respondents Now you have a survey… 3

31. Assign respondents 3 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 They can only take the survey via the link that is generated in the email notification For a public survey, just click “Next’ without choosing respondents

32. Three steps in creating a survey MT 2010 TT 2010 HT 2010  master list 1 Create a template – Create new template questions…  2 Start new survey – Configure the survey settings and specifications… 3 Assign the survey to a group of respondents 

33. Exercise 2: Create new survey Assign to participants

34. Example: Masters in EBHC Course evaluation Survey results

35. Course Evaluation Questionnaire Course Evaluation List of available surveys - links Surveys tool in the site

36. Respondents’ view of survey Optional text field for name Scale question with a comment box

37. My surveys page View partial results View final results

38. My surveys page View partial results View final results

39. My surveys page

40. Survey results If the survey respondents where required to login

41. Example of PDF summary report

42. Summary Questions