[Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluation layout

[Stephen Marquard]

Hi Brian,

Your "other" option is as graceful as it gets. Are you using a recent enough version that it has the "Add a comment" option?

You can't split the evaluation onto multiple pages. You could try splitting up the page using text headers with a large font size.

You could hide the question numbers by editing the html templates for the various question types. That would be a global change for all surveys though. There might also be a CSS solution.

We used the evaluation tool for our own institutional survey, though it wasn't as long. We did some usability testing inter alia to establish how long it would take people to complete, and told them upfront (max 20 min - median response time was 11 minutes).

Regards
Stephen
 
>>> Brian Dashew <Brian.Dashew at marist.edu> 03/25/09 8:42 PM >>> 
Hello: 

Marist is trying to use the evaluation system tool to roll out the 2009 
Multi-Institutional Survey Initative from the Data Analysis working group. 
We've just done a test run which seemed to work pretty well, but we do 
have a few questions we're hoping somebody out there can help us with: 

- Is there a graceful way to add an "other" option to a multiple choice 
question? Currently I've just added a comment box and made the last option 
"other (please explain in the comment box below)" 
- Is there a way to split up the evaluation onto multiple pages? I'm 
thinking of what exists in the Tests and Quizzes tool where I can set each 
part of a test to appear on its own page; I'd like to do the same thing 
for parts of this (very long) survey
- Is there a way to hide the question number? As I said...it's a long 
survey...almost 100 questions...and I'm a bit worried that people are 
going to scroll down, see the number and exit the survey before they even 
look at the content. Can these be easily hidden? 

Please let me know if there's anything you can suggest to help us through 
these questions/issues. 

Thank you,
Brian
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Brian Dashew
Instructional Designer, Academic Technology & eLearning
Marist College
Library 317
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 575-3303
Email: Brian.Dashew at marist.edu