Creating a survey involves a series of steps. After you name a survey, you can define its general properties, restrictions, learning objectives, reports, and layout/questions.
Category Group your survey under an existing category or create a new category. Categories are useful for organizing surveys with similar or related content.
Feedback Users receive feedback immediately after answering a question.
Anonymous Hides user data in survey results. The responses to survey questions are available for all users, but the system does not report who made what response.
Create a description and submission message for your survey. Manage visibility options by selecting on or off.
Description Create a description at the start of the survey. Users will see the description at the top of the page before the first question.
Submission Message Display a message to users immediately after they submit the survey.
Add information or instructions to the bottom of the survey page. Change page footer visibility by selecting on or off.
Add a rubric to your survey if you want to evaluate the overall quality of survey responses.
Setting your survey status to Active allows users to see and take the survey. You can specify a date or date range that your survey becomes available to users. You can also add surveys associated with a date to your course calendar.
Create new, or attach existing release conditions if you want a survey to be available to users only after they fulfill other specified tasks. Examples of release conditions include completing a dropbox submission, scoring a specified grade in a particular quiz, completing a self assessment, and being enrolled in a particular section. You can edit and change release conditions by clicking the 
Remove icon or Remove All Conditions.
Set a response type to specify the number of survey attempts users are allowed.
Unlimited Users can answer and submit a survey as many times as they want.
Single attempt that is editable Allows users a single survey attempt. They can re-access and edit responses as long as the survey is still available.
Limited Sets a number of permissible survey attempts.
You can search and assign specific users a different set of survey availability dates. Special access properties enable you to increase the time limit for special-needs users and allow different start and end dates for individual users.
Associate a survey with learning objectives that you want users to master. See Associating surveys with learning objectives for more information.
Use survey reports to gather information on survey data. Survey reports are different from survey results; they collect and present more types of information than is available through results. Choose a report type to display question statistics, question details, users statistics, attempt details, or user attempts. You can also select a release date and choose which roles have permission to view each report.
Click Add/Edit Questions to create survey questions.
Once you add questions to your survey, you can enter a value in the text field to indicate how many questions to display per page. Limiting the amount of questions available at a time is less overwhelming than placing an entire survey on one page. You can also choose to prevent users from moving backwards through pages once they have left a page of questions.
Click on a question from the Survey Layout section to preview it. Click Edit Values then select or clear the check box beside each question to modify their "Mandatory" answer status. Click Add/Edit Questions to create new questions, sections, information, and manage other question properties.
Note You can also edit values and preview questions in the Add/Edit Questions area.
