Pre and Post Survey Comparisons

Owned by Luc Richard
Last updated: Dec 09, 2022
2 min read

Audience: Instructors, Administrators

Location: Course Administration > Reports > Pre and Post Survey Comparisons

Asynchronous: No

Description: This report, as its name implies, aggregates data from a survey completed before the start of the course with the data from a survey completed after the end of the course. It allows you to compare a learner's answers before and after they take your course. 

In order for this report to aggregate the information, certain rules are required:

  1. The report works with the "Feedback" activity only, which is an activity designed to make surveys. 

  2. The feedback activities must be named essentially the same, with the exception of a prefix or suffix, which by default must be "Pre" and "Post". For example, the report can aggregate data from two feedback activities called "Pre-Survey" and "Post-Survey" but not from two activities called "Pre-Quiz" and "Final Assessment" because the names do not match.

  3. The report only aggregates data for identical questions. For example, the report can aggregate data from two identical questions that ask "How did you like this course?", but not it won't aggregate the data if the question in the first activity asks "How did you like this course?" and the question from the second activity asks "Tell us how you liked this course?". 

In order to set up a feedback activity so it can be aggregated in the "Pre and Post Survey Comparisons" report, we suggest you follow these simple steps:

  1. Add a feedback activity and put the word "Pre" in its full name, such as "Pre-Survey".

  2. Add all your questions to the activity and test it carefully to make sure it works as intended.

  3. While in editing mode, duplicate the activity by going to Edit > Duplicate in the course outline page.

  4. Rename the duplicate activity so that the new name has the word "Post" in it, such as "Post-Survey".

  5. While this last step is mandatory, we usually recommend that you set the restrictions in the post-survey such that a learner cannot answer the post-survey until he/she has completed the pre-survey and all the mandatory activities in the course. You may also set other restriction such as a date or time-lapse.