Survey Questions - Mandatory vs Optional?

James.R.233
James.R.233 Posts: 7 🌱
edited February 10 in Higher Ed / Postsecondary

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

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  • Janet.W.813
    Janet.W.813 Posts: 79

    Hi @James.R.233 ,

    To make a Survey question Optional, go into the Survey Question Editor > Click on Edit Values >

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    Uncheck the box next to the question under Type Mandatory > Save and Close

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    Hope that helps!

    Janet

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  • James.R.233
    James.R.233 Posts: 7 🌱

    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!

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