I've manually created a survey in D2L for my students (I am not using the question library). However, I can’t find the setting to make one of my survey questions non-mandatory (ie optional) for my students…
Any ideas, folks? Thanks in advance!
James
Hi @James.R.233 ,
To make a Survey question Optional, go into the Survey Question Editor > Click on Edit Values >
Uncheck the box next to the question under Type Mandatory > Save and Close
Hope that helps!
Janet
Thanks for the reply, Janet! I knew about the edit values option, and I tried that before posting here, but even with that option unchecked, my students were still getting the "you have X unanswered questions" error in bold red font after they hit "submit".
It was only after some digging that I found that the "error" in the red font about not completing a mandatory question was not an error at all but was an FYI that a question was "missed". Students could ignore the red font completely and just hit "submit" a second time.
This is an example of a poor user experience, in my opinion. Why would D2L remind students they missed a non-mandatory question? Seems and odd setting to me.
Anyway, thanks again for your reply!
agreed, @James.R.233.
Yet another instance in the course where I have too add MORE explanatory text and directions to explain shortcomings of the platform, which is not ideal for an online course.
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