Overview

Build a questionnaire as a test for individualized responses, or a survey for anonymous, collective responses.

Overview

Just like faculty, each student has a unique history of experiences and opportunities that contribute to their engagement and success in the online classroom. It makes sense that each one is at a different stage and will develop at a rate that is consistent with their interests, motivations, personal challenges, and environment. Consider having your students complete a confidential Getting to Know You Survey in the first week of class. This will help you identify your high-need students and help you connect with them. 

• The Canvas Graded Survey option is used when you want to credit students for completion. Individual questions are not scored.

  • How do I create a survey in my course? 

• In order to see individual responses, remember to leave the option to Keep Submissions Anonymous unchecked.

• Using question numbers facilitates the sequence of questions; abc are used to re

• A lengthy question bank follows. Please review, select and adapt the instructions, questions, and survey length based on activities and content that are most relevant to your course.

Sample Survey Instructions

Please complete this questionnaire so that I can get to know you better and learn about your goals for this course. Answer each question as honestly as possible - not with answers you think I might be looking for, but with what really describes you.

After submitting the questionnaire, you will see a summary of the interaction. You won't actually have any results to see, and scoring will not really matter. Needs Grading indicates that your responses are available for me to view. There are no right or wrong answers here, but the system functionality means that Correct/Incorrect Answer wording may appear.

QUESTION 1 - What name do you prefer to go by?

QUESTION 2 - What phone number may I use if I need to reach you? When is the best time to reach you?

QUESTION 3 - What I know some of these questions are very personal, and we don’t know each other (yet). I am asking you these questions because I care and want to be able to support you in your learning as best as I can. You may choose to skip any questions you do not feel comfortable answering. Your information will not be shared outside of this course. 

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Sample Survey Question Bank

01 - Just Name: What name do you use?

02 - Just Pronouns: What name and pronouns do you use?

03 - Name AND Pronouns: What name and pronouns do you use?

04 - Faculty-Student communication: What is the best way to reach you? (If email, text, or phone, please provide). When is the best time to reach you? 

05 - Voice communications: This semester, I may communicate with you through voice or video messages.

06 - Student's descriptors: Which of the following describes you? (select all that apply).

07 - For International students: How many semesters have you studied in the US?

08 - Experience with citations: How familiar to you are these MLA / APA formatting guidelines? Do you feel you can use them today or would you like support? (add a link to your preferred guidelines).

09 - Experience with citations: How comfortable are you building another person's quote into your own sentence in order to cite it? Would sentence frames help you do this?

10 - Prior experience: What prior experience do you have with the topics described in the syllabus for this course, both personal and academic?

QUESTION 4 - What 11 - Course goals: What are your goals for this course? What do you want to learn in this class?

QUESTION 5 - What are your professional ambitions?

QUESTION 6 - What 12 - Course content: Which of the assigned papers are you least (or most) looking forward to writing, and why?

13 - Why this course: Why are you taking this course?

14 - Feelings about the course: In one word, describe how you are feeling about this class.

15 - Topic discussion experience: Please indicate your experience in discussing topics associated with the topic of this course.

16 - Course content: Which of the learning outcomes for this course are most important to you personally, and why?

17 - Current job: Do you have a job aside from being a student? If so, where do you work and what do you do?

18 - Professional ambitions: What is your professional ambition, at this time?

19 - Hobbies / Interests: What are your hobbies and interests?QUESTION

7 - What prior experience do you have in using Canvas? Were you able to complete the Canvas tasks assigned and locate what you are 20 - Possible interference: What's the one thing that is most likely to interfere with your success in this course? Is there anything you could do to address it?

21 - Internet concerns: Do you have any concerns about having persistent computer or internet access this semester?

22 - Canvas: How many asynchronous online courses have you previously completed? Did you encounter any difficulty completing the Canvas tasks assigned in this module, or locating what you were looking for in this course, so far? 

QUESTION 8 - Think 23 - Working in a group: Think about your experience working in groups. Please select the one response that best suits your experience.

• I enjoy working in groups because my group members usually help me understand the material and tasks and therefore I can perform better.

• I question the value of group work for me, because I usually end up doing more than my fair share of the work.

• I have little or no experience working in groups.

• I have a different experience than the choices given above. Please describe your experience working in groups in the Comments section at the end of this page.

QUESTION 9 - Please indicate your experience in discussing topics related to __________________.

• No experience

• Beginner - for example, experience discussing ___________ facilitated by an instructor

• Intermediate - for example, some experience discussing __________ with others in a social setting, in addition to instructor facilitated experience

• Expert - for example, experience skillfully discussing _________ with others in academic and social settings

QUESTION 10 - Please 24 - Google Meet or Zoom: Please indicate your level of familiarity with using online video conferencing software such as Zoom, Google Meet, or Skype to meet with someone online in real-time.

25 - Google Docs Experience: Please indicate your level of experience using Google Docs to type, edit, and format documents.

• No experience

• Beginner - Typing and editing content.

• Intermediate - Beginner experience plus collaborative discussion and editing with multiple writers.

• Expert - Intermediate experience plus setting up Sharing, and/or using Suggesting to track document changes.

QUESTION 11 - Please 26 - Google Drive: Please indicate your level of familiarity in with using Google Docs and Google Drive for collaborative writing and document-sharing activities. For example:

• Have you used Google docs to co-author a document?

• Have you created or uploaded a file in Google Drive and shared a link with others to view the file in your Drive?

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• No experience

• Beginner - able to create a new Google document and find it again on My Drive.

• Intermediate - Beginner experience plus able to find Share link and give others access to a document; also able to change document settings to allow others to Edit or Comment, and upload documents into Drive.

• Expert - Intermediate experience plus able to help others accomplish these tasks. Also able to create folders and organize or move documents in folders on Drive.

QUESTION 12 - Please 27 - Blogging: Please indicate your level of familiarity with writing and/or contributing to a blog.

28 - YouTube or Panopto experience: Please indicate your level of success in uploading a video to YouTube or another video hosting site like Panopto, changing YouTube video privacy settings to Unlisted, and finding copying the YouTube link to share your video with others.

• No experience

• Beginner - have done it or am confident I could do it with direct help

• Intermediate - have done it or am confident I could do it using step-by-step instructions

• Expert - have done it and could help others do it

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• No experience

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Expert

QUESTION 14 - Please indicate your level of familiarity with writing and/or contributing to a blog.

• No experience

• Beginner

• Intermediate

• Expert

QUESTION 15 - How 29 - Credit hours: How many course credit hours are you taking this term?

• 3 (this is my only course)

• 4-6

• 7-9

• 10 or more

QUESTION 16 - How 30 - Extracurricular activities: How many hours each week are will you likely to engage in be occupied in extracurricular activities such as paid or unpaid (caregiver or volunteer) work, or scheduled activities associated with a club or sport over the term?

• 0-4 hours per week

• 5-8 hours per week

• 9-12 hours per week

• 13-16 hours per week

• 17-20 hours per week

• more than 20 hours per week

QUESTION 17 - Additional Comments.  Do you have any concerns, or are there any special situations/circumstances that might influence your full participation in this class? Is 31- Planning your weekly schedule INSTRUCTOR: REVIEW DATES AND HOURS: Knowing that the due dates for this course will fall on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, what is your proposed weekly schedule for the 7.5-9 hours for this course?

32 - Invitation to contact the instructor: Is there anything else you'd like to share with me? After answering this question, single-click Submit to send in your answers. Thank you!Please contact me using the method outlined in the syllabus so I am sure to receive this information.

Thank you for sharing your responses to my questions. This information helps me get to know you better and learn about your goals for this course so I can better address them.

Adapted from Sample Student Info Form by Michelle Pacansky-Brock