Introduction

When you enable learning evaluation for courses, questionnaires will be sent learners via email or in-platform notifications. You can also choose to set the learner initial questionnaire as a training material of a course. 

Adding the questionnaire as training material in the course can greatly enhance your response rates, we strongly recommend using this option. 

This article will guide you through the configuration of initial learning evaluation questionnaires as xAPI (formerly Tin Can API) training material. 

Requirements & limitations 

When setting up initial learning evaluation questionnaires as training material in your platform, please remember that: 

• Initial learning evaluation questionnaires are assigned to courses as xAPI (formerly Tin Can API) training material
• You can set initial learning evaluation questionnaires as training material only for the courses where Learning evaluation is enabled, as described in the article Enabling evaluation for courses.
• You cannot set follow-up questionnaires as training material
• The management of initial learning evaluation questionnaires as training material in the Central repository of the platform is not supported

• The following rules apply when learners answer learning evaluation questionnaires set as training material in a course: 

  •  If the learner’s status in a course is set to In Progress, and they answer the learning evaluation questionnaire set as training material, then they will not receive either of the email notifications sent for the Initial evaluation and the Follow-up evaluation. 

  • If the learner’s status is set to Completed and they answer the learning evaluation questionnaire set as training material, then they will not receive the email notification for the Initial evaluation but they will receive the email notification for the Follow-up Evaluation. 

Setting up questionnaires as training material

Before you start setting up the questionnaire as training material, make sure that you enable the option Add an extended list of parameters to xAPI (TinCan) launch URL by following these steps:

1. Access the Admin menu from the gear icon in the top right corner of your platform
2. Reach the Advanced settings area
3. Go to the Advanced options tab
4. Reach the xAPI/TinCan section
5. Enable the option Add an extended list of parameters to xAPI (TinCan) launch URL by selecting the corresponding checkbox 
6. Click on Save at the bottom of the page 

Then, follow these steps to set up your learning evaluation questionnaire as an xAPI training material in a course:

1. Reach the Course management area from the gear icon in the top right corner of the platform
2. Access a course by clicking on its description
3. Go to the Training material tab
4. Click on Add training material and choose Feedback questionnaire from the drop-down menu
5. Add the questionnaire title and description and click on Save changes

Best practices

In order to get the best out of the questionnaire experience, we strongly recommend you:

• Set the questionnaire as the last training material in the course  
• Set the training material view mode to either Inline or Theater mode
• Set the course navigation policy as Final training material Locked, so that learners must complete all of the training materials in the course in order to unlock the questionnaire, which should be made a required item for completion credit