Add Restrictions to a Survey

Restrictions allow you to determine when and to whom your survey will be released. Some key settings include:

• Visibility: Choose to hide your survey or make it visible to students.
• Availability: Specify a date range that the survey becomes available to students. Surveys associated with a date can also be added to your course calendar.
• Release Conditions: Use release conditions to require that students meet certain criteria, such as completing an assignment, before gaining access to a survey. You can also use release conditions to restrict survey availability to students enrolled in a particular section, or based on a particular role.
• User Responses: Specify the number of survey attempts allowed.
• Special Access: Special access permissions allow instructors to set alternative access dates for individual students. You can also use special access permissions to make the survey available to a subset of students if desired.

Add Restrictions to a Survey

1. On the navbar, click the Activities menu, then select Surveys.
   
2. On the Manage Surveys page, click the survey name.
   
3. Click on the Restrictions tab.
   
4. Update the visibility of the Survey by selecting or unselecting Hide from Users.
   
5. Update the Availability by selecting Has Start Date and/or Has End Date, and specify the dates and times when the survey is available to students.
   
6. To display the survey in the Calendar tool, select Display in Calendar.
   
7. In the Additional Release Conditions area choose one of the following:
   • Click on Attach Existing to reuse a previously created release condition.
   • Click on Create and Attach to create a new release condition.
8. From the drop-down list, select if All conditions must be met or Any condition must be met to access the grade item or category.
   
9. In the User Responses area, set the Attempts Allowed drop-down list to one of the following:
   • Unlimited – Users can answer and submit a survey as many times as they want.
   • Single attempt that is editable – Allows users a single survey attempt. They can re-access and edit responses as long as the survey is still available.
   • Limited – Sets a number of permissible survey attempts.
     
10. In the Special Access area, select your Type of Access.
    • To set special access for selected students, choose Allow selected users special access to this survey.
    • To restrict the survey only to students with special access, choose Allow only users with special access to see this survey.
      
11. Click Add Users to Special Access.
12. If the students with special access have different Start and End Dates and Times, update the information.
    
13. Search for students and select the check boxes beside the names of students you want to assign special access to.
    
14. Click Add Special Access.
    
15. Click Save and Close.