Best way to poll students' preferences

[mwcampbe]

Hi Everyone,

I'm curious if Canvas has a function where I can poll my students to provide answers to an open-ended question. For example, I'm interested in getting all 70 students' suggestions on a film to watch. Is there a feature on Canvas that makes this easy? I don't mind sifting through the responses to find the most-popular answers, just curious what the best way to perform this function is. Many thanks in advance.

Malcolm

[kona · Accepted solution]

 @mwcampbe , greetings! What I do for things like this is use a survey (create a quiz in Canvas and then for type make it a non-graded survey). Once students reply you can download the results of the survey using the "Survey Statistics," which then makes it super easy to scroll through and review the replies to your question(s). 

To download the results, go to the Survey, click on "Survey Statistics" (on the upper right), and then click on the "Student Analysis" button. This will create a CSV download that you can open in Excel. 

Hope this helps! Kona

[mwcampbe]

Hi Kona - this helps a lot. Thank you so much!

Malcolm W. Campbell, MFA

Senior Lecturer, UNCC

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies

Cameron Hall #110 / (704) 576-0389

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:45 PM kona@richland.edu <instructure@jiveon.com>

[mwcampbe]

Kona,

I'm so appreciative -- it worked like a charm. Thanks again for everything.

Malcolm

Malcolm W. Campbell, MFA

Senior Lecturer, UNCC

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies

Cameron Hall #110 / (704) 576-0389

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 1:32 PM chofer@morainepark.edu <

[kona]

Yay! Glad it worked and thanks for letting us know!