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Demographics

On this screen you can view the current demographic surveys and create a new one. Demographic questions are presented to a student who submits work for the first time. Demographic questions are an essential part of the assessment process, as reports generated later will be filtered by sets of survey responses.

The demographic survey tool has a very powerful branching facility built into it, where the responses determine the subsequent questions asked.

The main demographic screen:

The survey is broken down into Topics, or groups of questions that are usually related. By linking topics to Departments, you can make sure that students in different departments aren't asked irrelevant questions.

In the example below, there are three topics, starting with Identification. Questions grouped under this topic are asked to those in all departments that are students, but not assessors. There are five questions, which can be seen by clicking the Edit tool. When they have been answered, the survey will ask the questions listed in the next suitable topic; for example, if the students are in the Education department, they will be asked the three questions in the Program Intervention topic

Actions for each topic:

At the bottom of the page shown above, you can get feedback relating to the survey generally.

• Add Topic - presents you with a form to add sectional topics to your survey to which you can later link your questions. More...
  
  
• Test Demographics - Gives a preview of how the demographic questionnaire will appear when it is being completed. It is highly recommended that you test the survey, especially where branching is involved. Test the survey at all branching points to topics to ensure that users will transit the survey as you intended.

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What do you want to do on this page?

Work with topics

• Create new topics - The first step in creating a survey, a topic is a theme that a series of questions have in common, such as which faculty they relate to, or what part of the course they reference. You must create a topic before you can add questions.
• Edit a topic - When changes need to be made to a topic that has already been entered.
  
  

Work with questions

• Create a question - Design new questions to either ask everyone, or only those in a particular department.
• Create branching questions - Decide how the answers given in a survey determine which subsequent questions will be asked.
• Edit a question- Make changes to existing questions.

Other

• Assign questions to a department- Get demographic information from specific groups of people.