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Student Surveys

  1. Student Surveys
    1. Authorisation for survey creation and modification
    2. Survey creation and modification
    3. Survey results
      1. Mentor surveys results
          1. Support

Student surveys are provided by a [WWW]Zope server running on surveys.

This server provides surveys at:

for anonymous surveys, and

for authenticated (non-anonymous) surveys - usually to enable restriction to one response per user.

Clicking on one of the surveys takes you to a specific survey page.

Authorisation for survey creation and modification

In order to create or modify a survey, you must be authorised as a surveyor on the Zope server.

This must be done either by a Zope manager, or the survey owner. See ZopeAdmin Enabling Staff to Create and Manage Surveys for instructions.

Survey creation and modification

Once authorised, go to the following URL:

(or )

and click on any survey to edit it (or click the "View" tab at the top).

(You will be asked for authentication - please provide the password you use to log in to our ugrad servers, if it's different from your staff one.)

If the survey you expect isn't available, you may need to create a new one - in which case, log into the site using the URL:

(or - note the capital C)

which will log you into a page allowing you to create a new survey (note that you can `clone' an equivalent one - which often saves a bit ot typing.)

You may also go directly to the edit page for any survey if you know its id by using the url:

Note also, that once you are authenticated, if you visit the page:

You will see all surveys listed together with the management links: "results" "graphs" and "edit"

Survey results

Survey results are available in bar-graph form by viewing the URL

However, these results assume that each question can be processed independantly.

Jeff Kingston has written some scripts that process the survey results into other forms.

His code uses a program in

that grabs the survey data for a particular survey.

Note that to obtain access to the data the invoker must be a member of the group zope, so just add would-be new invokers to that group in /etc/group on staff. (Jeff's code currently resides somewhere in the account timetbl.)

Mentor surveys results

For the mentor survey results, one can use the extract program invoked by:

which, for a previously specified list of mentor surveys, extracts the mentor-specific results sorted by mentor, and writes them to a file named after each survey (as in: survey_id.results).

for more details.

You may need to edit the program, as it has to know about the idiosyncrasies of each survey in the cases where the survey creator departed from the standard template.

Support

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