Xblock Openedx-Surveymonkey

The Openedx-Surveymonkey Xblock allows to embed a survey link inside a unit, also, allows to include the survey description and title. The xblock allows you to include the user anonymous id as a custom variable, that is a logic feature that allows you to track data about respondents by passing one or more values through a survey link and into your survey results.

Installation

Install the requirements into the Python virtual environment of your edx-platform installation by running the following command from the root folder:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Enabling in Studio

After successful installation, you can activate this component for a course following these steps:

• From the main page of a specific course, navigate to Settings -> Advanced Settings from the top menu.
• Check for the Advanced Module List policy key, and Add "surveymonkey" to the policy value list.
• Click the "Save changes" button.

Usage

Course Author criteria

• I can add a “SurveyMonkey” Xblock.
• I can set in a SurveyMonkey-XBlock a survey URL.
• I can choose to make the survey trackable (i.e. pass user id across via URL) - or not.
• I can add some introductory text which is displayed to the student above the survey link.
• I can define the text used to link to the survey (or leave it blank to use the default).
• I can define the text used in the xblock title

Student view criteria

• Clicking over the link opens the survey in a new browser tab.
• If user tracking is selected, then the survey URL includes a user_anonymous_id custom var with the student's anonymous user id

About this XBlock

The Openedx-Surveymonkey XBlock was built by eduNEXT, a company specialized in open edX development and open edX cloud services.

How to contribute

• Fork this repository.
• Commit your changes on a new branch
• Make a pull request to the master branch
• Wait for the code review and merge process