At Restrictions you can set up:

  • When a survey becomes available (status and data)
  • The maximum amount of attempts
  • If and which students have special access to the survey
  1. On the homepage of the course, click on ‘Course Management’ in the navigation bar.
  2. Then click on ‘Course Admin’.

3. In the new screen, click on ‘Surveys’ under ‘Assessment

4. Click on ‘Edit’ in the dropdown menu next to the survey or create a new survey by clicking on ‘New Survey’.

5. In the new screen, click on ‘Restrictions’ next to ‘Properties

  1. Tick ‘Hide from Users’ if you want the survey to be invisible to users.
  2. Below ‘Availability’:
  • Has Start Date: decide from which date the survey is visible to users.
  • Has End Date: decide until which date the survey is visible to users.
  • Tick ‘Calendar’ if you want the survey to appear in the calendar on the specified date.

3. Below ‘Additional Release Conditions’:

  • Click on ‘Attach Existing’ to add already existing release conditions.
  • Click on ‘Create and Attach’ to create new release conditions.
  • Click on ‘Remove All Conditions’ to delete all attached release conditions.

4. Below ‘User Responses’, decide how many times users are allowed to take the survey:

  • Unlimited – The user can take the survey as many times as they like. Brightspace will save each attempt separately.
  • Single attempt that is editable – The user can only fill in the survey once but has access to the survey to edit their answers until the end date.
  • Limited – The user can only have a limited amount of attempts. Brightspace will save each attempt separately.
  • Fill under ‘Number of attempts’ in the amount of attempts each users have.

5. Below ‘Special Access’ customise the access of the survey for individual users:

  • Allow selected users special access to this survey
  • Allow only users with special access to see this survey
  • Add users with special access by clicking on ‘Add Users to Special Access

6. Click on ‘Save and close’ to save the restrictions to the survey.