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3:40
July 23, 2008
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Maddie Regan
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I am using a survey to produce student evaluations from a summer academic program. What I am trying to do is enable a faculty member to select their name, select their class, and then select the student.
I have created separate drop down boxes with the facutly, classes, and students. Once the faculty has selected their name, I would like to only have the classes they teach appear, and once they have selected the class, have only the students in that class appear.
Any ideas?
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4:27
July 23, 2008
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Mario
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Maddie,
Within SurveyGizmo, since you have over 100 classes, you would have to make a separate page for every class. You would use simple page jumping to send teachers to their particular page that has the list of their classes. From that page, you would need to jump to the individual class’ page, which would jump to the end of the survey when it was filled out. Needless to say, it would be tedious, a mess, and prone to mistakes/errors/problems.
Your current method of 3 drop-downs containing all of the members of the appropriate category is the best method to use purely surveygizmo.
I did come up with one other workaround, which is to do the processing you mentioned on your own website (a web developer could do this without too much issue since it is basically a relational database situation), then pass the variables (teacher, class, student) through to the survey in the Query String which the survey would capture and then would only ask the questions about that student, but would have stored all of the variables. If all of that seems overwhelming, I would ignore it and just stick to your current method. :)
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4:39
July 23, 2008
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Maddie Regan
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Hi Mario,
Thanks for the information. While I understand *most* of what you said, I’m still a bit confused. This survey was actually created last year by the person who had the job I now have and I was just trying to update it. He actually got the drop down list options to vary depending on the selection made in the previous drop down box. This limited survey-user error (teachers accidentally selecting the wrong student, etc). So I was hoping to replicate that.
I am using the survey to gather information for an access database which already has all of these relationships defined in it, so maybe there’s a smarter way for me to go about this…
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4:45
July 23, 2008
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Mario
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I’ve looked at the surveys and I don’t see anything dynamic as we’ve described.. what is the exact name of the survey you are updating?
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4:49
July 23, 2008
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Maddie Regan
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In the survey “CMU Precollege Student Evaluations” when you first preview the survey, if you click on the classes drop down box all of the classes are listed. If you then go up and select a faculty member, and then click on the classes drop down box, only the classes they teach appear.
Though, now that I have updated the list of classes, the correct classes are not appearing for each teacher, but there is something happening.
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5:24
July 23, 2008
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Mario
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So I just took a look at it in preview because the survey itself didn’t show any signs of this… and after about 15 minutes of digging, found the very large amount of custom javascript code that was causing the effect we’re seeing. Judging by the way it was added in, it was probably done as a custom professional service by our CTO and one of our co-founders. I talked to the gentleman who does professional services, and he thinks he could create the same effect assuming he had all the info about the teacher > class and class > student relationships, but it would have to be hired professional services.
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For a few minutes there we were going to call it magic because we couldn’t find where the effect was coming from… eventually realizing it was done somewhere in the system specific to this survey but not WITHIN this survey.
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5:52
July 23, 2008
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Maddie Regan
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Amazing. Thank you so much for your help. At this point it sounds like “if I throw money at it the problem will get solved,” and that is perfectly fine.
Thank you again.
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7:18
July 23, 2008
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Mario
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