Edit question - Question Name

You can optionally enter a Question Name for each question.

The Question Name is only used when you export responses to CSV/Excel format. If you never export to CSV, then you needn't worry about Question names at all. If you plan to regularly export your questionnaire data to CSV, then you have a choice of two options for question naming.

Option 1: significant names

In the Question Name box, enter meaningful, short and different question names for all of the questions within one questionnaire. In the CSV export file, all those question names will be prefixed with the question's actual number (= position) in the quiz. Examples:

question number (position) in the questionnaire	question name entered by teacher	field header in csv export
5	favorite colors	Q05_favorite colors
6	why_use_Moodle	Q06_why_use_moodle
7	user-friendliness (rate question with 3 possible answers: Moodle, WebCT and Blackboard)	Q07_user-friendliness->Moodle Q07_user-friendliness->WebCT Q07_user-friendliness->Blackboard

Option 2: leave the Question Name boxes blank

For each un-named question, CSV export will automatically generate a question name. This is required for table header fields in the CSV and subsequent Excel tables or any statistics package you might be using. The question name generated will be based on the question number in the actual Quiz (excluding Section Text pseudo-questions, of course) e.g. Q01, Q02, ... Q99. For questions with multiple answers, such as rate-type or Likert type questions, a sub-question number will be generated (Q02_1, Q02_2, Q02_3, etc.). This type of "short-name" naming scheme is advisable for exporting your data to a statistics software. Of course, it's up to you to have your own system for remembering which abbreviated question name corresponds to which question in your questionnaire!

question number (position) in the questionnaire	question name entered by teacher	field header in csv export
5		Q05
6		Q06
7		Q07_1 Q07_2 Q07_3

It is quite possible (but maybe not advisable) to mix the two systems, and have within one questionnaire both named and un-named questions.

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Updated by JR on 21/11/08