Create a survey

In this article we cover:

• How to create a survey
• Creating multiple surveys
• Shuffle the question order
• Set a start and end time for your survey

How to create a survey:

Creating a survey works much the same way as creating polls. 

Create a session. (Start your session if you have not already done so). 
Select 'Surveys' from the navigation menu.
Press the '+ Create new' button.

Click on the word 'New survey' to give your survey a name and click on the check mark to confirm it.

Select 'Advanced Settings' to modify the default survey description visible to participants before they begin. You can personalize this with specific instructions.
Now select the 'Save' button 
The next step is to add some questions. Adding questions to a survey works the same way as creating live polls. Press the '+ Add Question' button.

Select the type of question you would like to create. In surveys, you can choose between multichoice, ranking, rating, text & numeric, Latex question types and adding images to those questions. (Word cloud, XY plot, demographic polls and before and after comparisons questions are not available in surveys.) 
Enter the title of your question.
If relevant, enter the answer choices and select the correct answer for the question. (Setting a correct answer will turn this survey into a self-paced quiz, and participants will see their individual score on their devices at the end. Learn more about this here.) You can also add an explanation for the correct answer and adjust how many options participants can select.

Press 'Create' to save your question. Repeat this process to add multiple questions to your survey.

You can also add questions from the question library including questions from: 

1. My previous questions
2. Vevox sample content
3. Account collections or
4. AI generated questions or
5. Import questions

Creating multiple surveys

When you want to create additional surveys, follow the same steps outlined above. Each new survey will be listed separately and will appear below any previously created ones. All surveys within the same session share the same 9-digit Session ID.

Surveys will appear in the participant app in the same order as they are listed in the dashboard. Participants cannot be required to complete one survey before starting another.

In this example, the “ANTH 101 Student Survey” and “Lecturer Survey” have been opened, but the “Freshman” and “Student Council” surveys have not yet been made visible.

In the example above, the participant can see two available surveys opened by the host/lecturer — “ANTH 101 Student Survey” and “Lecturer Survey.” The participant has already completed and submitted the first survey (indicated by the “Submitted” label next to the name) but has not yet responded to the “Lecturer Feedback” survey.

Shuffle the question order

When turning on the shuffle question order, the system will automatically randomize the order of the questions for each participant, preventing any bias created by the order and limiting assessment cheating. 

To turn the shuffle question order on, select the tick box in the 'Advance Settings'. 

Set a start and end time for your survey

You can schedule when your survey becomes available by setting a start and/or end time. Once the start time arrives, the survey will automatically open for participants and remain available until the end time (if set).

If you leave the end time blank, the survey will stay open indefinitely until you close it manually.
If no schedule is set, you can open and close the survey manually using the ‘Open Survey / Close Survey’ buttons.

The survey will open automatically appearing in the participant app and then close again by itself.

You can confirm your local time zone under Settings. The session set up will only show the scheduled start time of the survey. The end time is confirmed in the Survey Advanced settings.