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This post is a continuation of an earlier one, Boost Your Student Engagement with Qualtrics: Part 1<\/a>. This post will describe the setup and use of a specific Qualtrics Survey used in a recent OSU Ecampus Course, Communications Security and Social Movements (Borradaile, 2021).<\/p>\n

In the survey example, I am going to share, an instructor had an assignment in which each student was to select from a list of social movement groups they wished to research and prepare a recorded lightning talk. The instructor didn\u2019t want any two students to be able to select the same group to research.<\/p>\n

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What the survey needed to do was eliminate each choice once it had been selected by a student. As the students take the survey, one by one, and select their group, the next students taking the survey should not see the choices previously selected.<\/p>\n

Qualtrics lets you add \u201cQuotas\u201d to a survey. Using quotas you can specify a number of actions that modify your survey\u2019s behavior once a condition has been met. That is how this design challenge was solved. Each option in the survey was given a quota of 1. Once that quota had been reached, because a student selected that social movement group, and then submitted their survey, the item would disappear from the list.<\/p>\n

This survey uses a combination of a Simple Logic Quota and Display logic. This is a bit more complex than setting up a normal survey, so let\u2019s walk through the steps.<\/p>\n

Design Your Survey<\/h2>\n

Do the following steps outside of Qualtrics.<\/p>\n

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  1. Identify a list of topics students can choose from.<\/li>\n
  2. Determine how many students should be able to select an individual answer (this number would not have to be the same for each option).<\/li>\n
  3. If the list is long, you will want to write out the list of choices in a text file. It will make the question creation a little faster, and if anything goes wrong, you can easily start over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Implement Your Survey in Qualtrics<\/h2>\n

    The following steps assume basic familiarity with creating surveys in Qualtrics. Where applicable, links to the Qualtrics documentation will be provided to go into more detail as needed.<\/p>\n

    Setup Your Survey and Survey Question<\/h3>\n
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    1. Create a new survey project in Qualtrics<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Create a multiple-choice question<\/a> to hold your list of choices.\n