Moodle’s surveys can give feedback on how useful certain aspects of coursework are. There are currently only five pre-designed surveys to choose from; you cannot write your own survey at present.

Types of surveys:

• ATTLS: The Attitudes Toward Thinking and Learning Survey (ATTLS) is a twenty-question survey that gives an idea of the learning attitudes of students. It distinguishes between “connected knowers” and “separate knowers”, where connected knowers favor interaction and cooperation but separate knowers prefer argumentative learning.
• Critical Incidents: The critical incidents survey provides five free-response questions about what was effective and ineffective in class and in forums.
• Colles: The Constructive On-Line Learning Environment Survey (Colles) provides feedback on the effectiveness of certain aspects of on-line learning. Each of the three versions has the same 24 questions divided into six categories.
  • Colles (Actual): This version of Colles asks students about what actually happened.
  • Colles (Preferred and Actual): This version of Colles asks students each question twice, the first time to find out what the student wanted and the second to find out what actually happened.
  • Colles (Preferred): This version of Colles asks students what they want to get out of an on-line unit.

Creating a survey:

• To create a new survey, hit the “Turn editing on” button in the upper right corner of Moodle.

• Then go to the “Add an activity” pull-down menu and select “Survey.”

• Give the survey a title and select the type of survey from the drop-down menu.

• Give a complete and detailed description of the survey if you put anything into the custom intro box, otherwise leave it blank and Moodle will provide its own detailed description.
• Groups: If you are using groups, you can select either visible or separate groups, and the results can then be viewed in smaller groups in addition to as an entire class.

• Click “Save and display.” The survey will appear, and you can return to the course window using the navigation panel at the upper left.

Viewing the results of a survey:

• Click “Surveys” in the “Activities” section of the left column.
• Click on the survey name.
• If you have completed the survey:
  • Your results will be displayed. To see the whole class’s results, click the “View (#) survey responses” in the upper right corner.
• If you have not completed the survey:
  • The survey will be displayed. To see the class’s results, click the “View (#) survey responses” in the upper right corner.

• There are several presentations of the results of the survey. View each one by clicking on it at the top of the screen:

• Summary: Shows the class’s average overall results.
• Scales: Shows the class’s average results to each question.
• Questions: Shows all responses to each question.
• Students: By clicking on a students name, you can see the summary and scales charts with that person’s responses compared to the class average.
• Download: This allows you to download the raw data for analysis in other programs.

Note: Students are forced to answer all multiple choice questions if they take a survey, even if there is no “does not apply” answer choice.