Hi Mark,

We have just had Community System licence this week and I tried the
community poll on a 7.1 test server. I found that with Opinion Poll
(sorry I made mistake in referring it as option poll in my previous
message), a respondent can see all the opinions being submitted before
taking his/her poll. If it is Multiple Question Poll, then the
respondent can only see the voting result after submit his/her vote.  We
thought that revealing survey result before survey is closed could have
undue influence on the survey process, even if the result is revealed to
individual respondents after voting because the rolling result can be
passed to other voters who are still to cast their votes. 

The problem with only one poll in a module is that the respondent will
need to click submit/Ok button for each survey question. We thought this
might reduce the rate of successful submission besides being user
unfriendly.

Jie

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My (limited) experience with the survey module in the Community System
is that a user does not see the results until they have submitted their
choice.
So I don't think your point 2 is a concern (unless it's changed in
latest versions that I haven't tried).

Point 1 is still the case I believe, if that is a problem for you.

Regards


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On 8/4/06 4:14 AM, "Shen, Dr J." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone done surveys within Blackboard to get responses from all 
> students in an institution?
> 
> We have looked at option/MC poll within Community System and can see 
> two shortcomings. 1) There can only be one question in a module. 2) 
> The results cannot be hidden before (option poll)/after (MC poll) 
> users submit a response. This might influence how people respond to 
> survey questions.
> 
> We have also considered to enrol every student into a course site and 
> do a survey there. However with thousands of students within a course 
> site, I am not sure if the survey results can be downloaded. We 
> currently have a course site with over 2000 students and had problem 
> to download tracking stats because timeout ticked in.
> 
> Much appreciated for any insight if you have tried any way to get 
> around these problems.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jie Shen
> University of Leicester