Qualtrics Survey Tool

Qualtrics Survey Tool#

You can administer Qualtrics surveys to your learners in your edX course. The Qualtrics survey appears in an iframe inside the course.

A Qualtrics survey with several responses filled in.

Course staff can view the overall results of the survey as well as responses from individual learners.

Note

To use a Qualtrics survey, you must have a Qualtrics license. Qualtrics licenses are available for a fee at the Qualtrics website. If you want to include a survey but you do not have a Qualtrics license, you can use the edX survey tool or a Google form.

For more information, see the following sections.

Be sure to review all supplemental materials to make sure that they are accessible before making them available through your course. For more information, see Accessibility Best Practices for Developing Course Content.

Add a Qualtrics Survey to Your Course #

To add a Qualtrics survey to your course, you must create the survey in Qualtrics, and then create a Text component in Studio.

Create the Qualtrics Survey#

Note

Because Qualtrics is a third-party tool, the following steps might change without notice. See the Qualtrics website for the most up-to-date Qualtrics documentation.

Using your Qualtrics account, create your survey.
Add the statements and options that you want the survey to include.
Add the user ID element. This element imports data from your course into Qualtrics.
1. At the top of the page, make sure the Edit Survey tab is selected, and then select Survey Flow.
2. In the upper left corner, select Add a New Element Here.
3. Select Embedded Data.
4. Under Set Embedded Data, replace Enter Embedded Data Field Name Here with uid.
5. Select Save Flow.
At the top of the page, make sure Edit Survey is selected, and then select Launch Survey.
On the page that opens, select Activate Survey in the upper right corner.
On the page that opens, locate the URL that is listed under Your Anonymous Survey Link. You will add this URL to the Text component for your survey in Studio.

Note

If you need to find this URL in the future, open your survey in Qualtrics, and then select the Distribute Survey tab at the top of the page.

Create the Text Component in Studio#

Open the unit where you want the survey to appear.
Under Add New Component, select Text, and then select IFrame Tool.
Select Edit to open the component editor, and then select HTML in the menu bar.
At the end of the instructions, locate the example iframe element, and replace the placeholder values with the values for your survey. The iframe element starts with the following text.

<iframe title="Euler Line Demo"

In the title attribute, replace Euler Line Demo with the title of your survey.

In the src attribute, replace the placeholder URL with the URL from step 6 in Create the Qualtrics Survey.

In the src attribute, add the following value to the end of the URL.

?uid=%%USER_ID%%

The resulting src attribute resembles the following example.

src="https://qtrial2015az1.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9N27VuruRdNcpHT?uid=%%USER_ID%%"

Replace the values in the width and height attributes with values that allow your survey to appear the way you want it to. For example, you might change width to 800 and height to 1000.

(Optional) If your survey might be taller than the value that you set for height, in the scrolling attribute, change the value to yes. If you do not change the value to yes and your survey is taller than the height value, learners cannot scroll down to respond to all the survey statements.

Leave the other default values, and then select OK at the bottom of the HTML source code editor to return to the component editor.

In the component editor, delete all of the default instructional text, or replace it with introductory text for your Qualtrics survey.
Select Save.