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Adjust course survey via Canvas

Before the course survey is sent out, you as the course manager have the opportunity to add questions and adjust the dates for when the survey is sent out. On this page you will find guidance on how to find the survey in Canvas and make these adjustments.

Testing in progress

Only pilot courses have access

Currently, a pilot test of the system is underway with a few courses from period 2. The plan is for all courses to use the system from the end of period 3.

Find the survey

You can find the survey by going to the course room in Canvas and clicking on "Course Evaluation" in the course menu. A pop-up window may appear asking you to authorize the feature to access your account. If so, click on "Authorize". After that, a view will appear where you can see your course evaluation, the survey’s status, and the dates it will be open. The default language of the survey is the teaching language of the course instance. 

In the survey view, the name of the course evaluation, the status, and the survey’s dates are displa

Adjust survey send date

If you click on your survey, you will be taken to a settings view where you can adjust the send date of the survey. By default, the survey is set to be sent out on the Monday after the course’s end date, but you can change this to up to 35 days earlier or up to 7 days later. To change the date, select a date in the date picker under "The survey opens". The closing date of the survey is locked to 11 days after your selected start date.

In the field for "The survey opens", you can select a date using a date picker.

Click "Save" to save your chosen date. Note: If you select today’s date, the survey will not be published immediately but during the next sync, which occurs overnight.

Add questions

To add questions, go to the "Content" tab in the survey. At the bottom of the common questions, there is a green "+" button. Click it to add a question. A box will then appear where you can choose which question type you want. You can add questions in the formats of Yes/No, radio buttons or free text. For free text, the type "Field" is a smaller text box, and "Memo" is a bigger text box. 

Box to pick question type

Once you add a question, it is automatically saved.

Note! Translate custom questions

The students can view the survey in both Swedish and English, so it is a good idea to translate the questions you create yourself. You can do this by clicking on the pen icon to the right of the question and then switching languages at the top of the editing box that appears. If you do not add a translation, the question will be displayed in the language in which you originally entered it.

Next to the question there is a button called "Advanced editing"
At the top of the advanced question editor, select the language in which you want to edit the questi

Do you have questions?

If you are experiencing technical issues, please contact it-support@kth.se .

If you have any questions about the course evaluation, course analysis, or KTH's quality assurance processes, please contact kvalitetssamordning@kth.se .