# Monitor

### Summary

The Summary view gives you an immediate, **high-level overview of how students have responded**.

### How this supports your teaching

The monitoring interface allows you to:

* **Quickly assess understanding and trends**
* Identify **gaps, misconceptions, or strong insights**
* Use real data to **drive class discussions**
* Track **student participation and engagement**
* Collect evidence for **evaluation or research**

Let's look at the interface

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#### Aggregated Results (per question)

For each question, you can view:

**Response distribution**

* A **horizontal bar chart** showing how many students selected each option
* A **percentage breakdown** for quick interpretation

This helps you instantly identify:

* **Most common choices**
* **Outliers or minority responses**
* **Patterns in student thinking**

#### Charts

Each structured question includes a **pie chart visualisation**.

* Makes it easier to **spot trends at a glance**
* Useful for **live class discussion or debriefing**

#### **Open response count**

For open-ended questions, you will see:

* The **number of responses submitted**

#### **View all responses**

Click “<kbd>View all responses”</kbd> to access:

* The **full list of student answers**
* Detailed qualitative insights into **student reasoning and reflection**

This is particularly valuable for:

* Identifying **misconceptions**
* Highlighting **excellent answers for discussion**
* Understanding **how students are thinking**, not just what they selected

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#### Practical Tip

Use the **Summary view during or immediately after the activity** to:

* Prompt discussion, e.g. *“Why do you think most of you chose a truss design?”*
* Highlight contrasting approaches
* Encourage students to **justify and debate their decisions**

This turns Survey monitoring into a **live teaching tool,** not just a reporting dashboard.
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#### **Export Report**

You can export all survey data for further analysis.

* Typically **exported in MS Excel** so you can use with analytical tools like R, Power-BI, SPSS.
* Useful for:
  * **Deeper analysis**
  * **Research purposes**
  * **Record keeping**

### Analytics

This section provides a quick overview of participation.

* **Session name** → Identifies the group of learners (in case your survey is grouped)
* **# of students** → Total number of participants who have engaged with the Survey

This helps you monitor:

* **Engagement levels**
* **Whether all expected students have responded**

### Restrict access&#x20;

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The **Deadline** setting allows you to **define a specific date and time after which students can no longer access the activity**.

Once the deadline is reached, the activity becomes unavailable to all students, ensuring that activity are completed within the intended timeframe. This is particularly useful for timed activities where fairness and consistency in access are important.

**How it works:**

* You select a date and time using the calendar and time picker
* The system enforces this as a **hard cut-off point**
* After this moment, **students cannot enter or continue** the activity

**Why use a Deadline:**

* Ensures all students complete the activity within the same timeframe
* Supports fair and controlled conditions
* Helps manage pacing in both synchronous and asynchronous lessons
* Reduces the need for manual intervention to close access

This feature gives you precise control over activity availability, helping you maintain structure and integrity it.

This option enables the teachers to set the **deadline** for students after which they will not be allowed to submit the activity.

### Advanced Settings

Displays the active configuration you set when creating the survey.

#### Live-Edit Activity

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**Survey cannot be edited if at least one student has submitted a survey response**
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You are only able to change or modify the questions and/or the content of the survey if no student has already started the survey. If at least ***one student*** has started, then no changes to the survey can be made.

Otherwise, when editing the survey, you will have the same feature that you use when creating it and there are no limitations as to what you will be able to change.


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