Create a Poll or Survey for a Course

Environment

Canvas

Issue

What are the different ways I can setup a poll or survey for my course?

Resolution

How do you want to present the poll or survey?

• A survey using classic quizzes in Canvas
  • Surveys can be graded or ungraded
  • Graded surveys appear in the Syllabus, Gradebook, Calendar, and To Do Lists 
  • Can require students use an access code to take the quiz
  • See the Instructure Community How do I create a survey in my course? article
  • To view results of a survey, see the Instructor Community How do I view survey results in a course? article
• A New Quizzes quiz in Canvas
  • Note: New Quizzes does not have a survey quiz type like classic quizzes. There are some workarounds to creating a survey within New Quizzes.
  • For an ungraded survey, be sure to make the quiz worth 0 points and "do not display in gradebook or student's grade page" (this will also make the quiz not count towards the final grade)
  • Make sure that Student Result View in the Settings are restricted, so students do not see “answers” for the survey
  • Some recommend question types for surveys in New Quizzes:
    • Multiple Answer
    • Essay (can also be used for short answer/response)
    • True/False
    • File Upload
    • Fill in the Blank (free response)
  • See the Instructure Community How do I create a quiz using New Quizzes article
  • Results can be viewed in Speedgrader 
• Polling in a Zoom meeting 
  • Pre-create polls for a Zoom course meeting that can be used while running a class
  • See the Adding a File with Poll Questions to a Zoom Course Meeting article
  • To pull a report with poll results see the Attendance and Poll Reports for Zoom in Canvas article
• IVQ (Interactive Video Quiz) embedded into a MiVideo video 
  • IVQs can be published to the Canvas course Media Gallery or embedded into Canvas course content
  • See the Create and Publish IVQ article
  • To gather IVQ results (analytics) see the IVQ Analytics in MiVideo and Canvas article
• The School of Public Health has a Poll Everywhere license
  • An LTI tool integrated with Canvas
  • Only available for courses in the SPH account
  • See the Poll Everywhere Instructor Guide
• A Qualtrics survey 
  • An online survey platform that can be integrated with Canvas using the Qualtrics Connector, see the Qualtrics Connector articles
  • Features include survey creation, distribution, analysis, and storage
  • See the Getting Started with Qualtrics article
• Google Forms
  • Not integrated with Canvas
  • See Google's Get Started with Forms guide

Additional Information

• Check out the new Academic Technology@Michigan website for course planning resources from across U-M
• Visit the Canvas @ Michigan site for faculty including the U-M Instructor Guide with links to additional support resources from across campus
• Check out the Canvas and MiVideo tutorials

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center