{"id":1185,"date":"2019-05-13T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:24:14","slug":"questionnaires-moodle-or-online-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/1185","title":{"rendered":"Questionnaires: Moodle vs Online Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am designing questionnaires to gather feedback about student and staff experience of Zoom technology. So I first thought it would be easier to use Moodle<\/a> Questionnaire as this will sit on the same VLE system and will not require participants to be sent to a different site. So I created the questionnaire on Moodle. I must admit, even though I have had experience creating questionnaires on Moodle, they were all fairly straight forward questions that did not have branching. In this case the questionnaire I was creating had quite a few questions branching out. It gave me the opportunity to learn setting dependencies in a Moodle questionnaire. This Questionnaire Conditional branching<\/a>\u00a0 Moodle documentation is a good resource to learn how to setup branching questionnaires.<\/p>\n

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Questionnaire with page breaks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, what was apparent when I started creating the questions was that for each branching question Moodle required a new page. So in the end, I ended up with a 12 page questionnaire!<\/p>\n

I didn’t fully appreciate the effect this may have on participants until I asked my colleagues to comment on the questionnaire. The first feedback was “seeing page 2 of 12 could be a bit overwhelming”. I am really glad I got my colleagues to give feedback because I am sure anyone looking at a questionnaire with 12 pages would not want to do it unless it is compulsory or provides a reward. I certainly would not click through to 12 pages!<\/p>\n

This meant that I needed to look for an alternative. We used to use SurveyMonkey for feedback surveys but we no longer use it at UCEM. We have access to Online Surveys<\/a> tool (which used to be Bristol Online Survey a while back) and I thought to give it a go. I used Bristol Online Survey tool almost a decade back as a PhD student and I really liked the flexibility it gave me. My initial issue of branching questions taking a whole page was no longer a problem with Online Survey tool. It dynamically crates the questionnaire on the page depending on the options you select.
\nFor example here I have shown how the questionnaire behaves depending on the options you select.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Questionnaire<\/a>
Questionnaire initial view<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"On<\/a>
On selecting YES option<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"On<\/a>
On selecting No option<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In this instance, I decided that it is best to go with Online Surveys because when a participant starts the answering the questionnaire I didn’t want them to quit thinking it is going to take long as there are 12 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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