Poll & Survey User Stories
- Matthew Harrington
The following user stories are relevant to polling and surveying learners:
As a learner, I want to select an answer from a predefined list of options to indicate my answer to a stated question.
As a learner, I want to see how the other learners in the course answered the question, so that I can see how my opinion or understanding aligns with other learners.
As a learner, I want to see how many other people have answered the poll to feel a part of a larger learner cohort.
As a course author, I want to be able to choose whether learners can see results or not, in order to use polls as both instructional tools and data gathering tools.
As a course author, I want the results of the poll to be visualised to convey response data to my learners.
As a course author, I want to be able to create questions using a variety of media, WYSIWYG formatting options and templates to ensure that my poll is as visually engaging as possible.
As a course author, I want to be able to make discussion participation and overall progress reliant on poll participation to ensure learners participate in the poll.
As a course author, I want to be able to make polls anonymous or identifiable so that I can tie polling data to other data from learners.
As a course author, I want to be able to easily view and access poll results in-app to quickly make use of the data I gather.
As a course author, I want to be able to download and export poll results for deeper analysis in external tools.
As a course author, I want to be able to temporarily seed polls with responses until a specific volume is met, in order to remove the fear that learners have of being the first respondent, while removing those results from the overall data.
As a course author, I want to be able to schedule the poll to open and close in a specific date range in order to capture a time-bound snapshot of data.
As a course author, I want to be able to ask polling questions in multiple different formats, such as multiple choice, scales, and scoring.
As a course author, I want to be able to flexibly insert polls into content and choose whether learner participation should award a grade, in order to incentivise participation.
As a course author, I want to be able to include contextualising information alongside the poll to help learners to understand the question being asked.
This list is incomplete and is a potential area where pedagogic research into the value that can be added by polls in online courses may be desirable.