Demographics Page- Editing Topics

Demographics Page- Editing Topics

After you have created a topic, you may need to edit it to control which questions are asked in a topic and their placement in a survey. Use the Edit tool, found on the main Demographics Tab:

This take you to the Edit Topic screen (shown below):

The sections of the Edit Topic screen are as follows:

Topic Name- The name given to this particular topic.
Department list- Choose the department you want to have linked to the topic area. Only the students submitting assessment in that department will see those questions. This can therefore be used instead of having to specify branching questions to an entire department . Demographic topics that are not assigned to a department will still be shown to all students.
Place Before list- A list of existing topics that allows you to choose where the new topic should appear relative to the others. If you leave it blank, the new topic will automatically appear as the last in the list.
On Completion list- decide what will happen after all the questions in the current topic have been asked. This menu controls whether the user is moved to the questions in the next topic, goes to another topic that already exists, or terminates the survey. It therefore provides another way of topic branching. If this question is to use branching, the On Completion list must be set to Continue to Next Topic.
Applies To check boxes- Decide whether this question will be asked to Students, Assessors, or both by putting check marks in the appropriate boxes next to the Applies To section.
Trigger re-application of these questions now- Checking this option will make sure that the students are asked these questions again next time they log in or submit work.This is often used when you want to have users update their demographics prior to a reporting period for topics in which their answers may have changed.
Demographics (include these questions in demographic filters)- If this is checked, the questions in this topic will be included in the demographic filters used for creating detailed reports on the results tab. If unchecked, the topic questions will be presented when students take the survey, but the responses will not appear as demographic filters.

Using questions in demographic filters: This is one way in which you can easily ask students about matters that are not necessarily related to performance but are of interest to you, and tabulate the results using the "Show Counts" and "Cross tabs" links. When combined with the "Trigger" feature you can initiate recurrent presentation of these same non-performance topics at important intervals (course or program evaluations, opinion surveys, questions about future course or program selection, etc.).

After you have added questions to a topic, tools to manage questions become available. Each question in the survey is represented by five columns of information about it, the first three letting you see: the full question; an abbreviated reference word or phrase; and possible answers that may be given. The Special column indicates any unusual events pertaining to that question- such as if the question has been temporarily removed from surveys by un-checking the "Include in future surveys" box (see Edit a question).

The Actions column at the end of each topic provide the following tools that give control over how the questions presented:

Actions for each question:

	Action	Description
	Edit	Amend the wording, response possibilities and whether or not to include this question in a survey.
	Move Up	Makes a question be asked earlier in the survey.
	Move Down	Makes a question be asked later in the survey.
	Delete	Remove the question permanently. You will be prompted to be sure you actually want to do this because by editing a question, it is possible to not include a question in new surveys.

The Add Question link at the bottom of this screen presents you with a form to create a new question, possible answers, branches to topic sections for each response.

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