--- title: 5 Best practices for surveys in Canvas description: You can use surveys to receive feedback from your students or give them some extra points by responding to a survey. Thomas is sharing 5 best practices. image: https://blog.drieam.com/hubfs/Business%20man%20pointing%20to%20transparent%20board%20with%20text%20Lessons%20Learned.jpeg --- [Skip to content](https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas#main-content) ![Drieam](https://blog.drieam.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Drieam-colored.png?width=3128&height=656&name=Drieam-colored.png) - Home - Products - Pricing - Blog - Company Open main navigation Close main navigation - Home - Products - Pricing - Blog - Company - Contact Contact May 26, 2022, 2:15:36 PM # 5 Best practices for surveys in Canvas ![Picture of Rob Stolzenbach](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/310b2879b1e0d1e8a366a464997f163f) [Rob Stolzenbach](https://blog.drieam.com/author/rob-stolzenbach) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas) [Twitter icon](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas) [pinterest-p icon](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://blog.drieam.com/5-best-practices-for-surveys-in-canvas) ### You can use surveys to receive feedback from your students or give them some extra points by responding to a survey but there are a lot of ways to use surveys and benefit from the response. With numerous options in surveys and quizzes let's start off bij explaining the difference; Quizzes and Survey uses the same technology except that Surveys do not have right or wrong answers and can be submitted anonymously. Quizzes are automatically scored by Canvas (except for text answers) and can be used to assess students' understanding. Feedback from your students is one of the most important ways to know if your courses are meeting their expectations. But, getting them to fill in surveys - and do so fully and correctly - is a major challenge.  It’s why we’ve drawn up a list of seven proven ways in which universities, colleges and business schools are successful in not only boosting survey response rates, but also ensuring data quality is of the highest level. After all, any data is only as good and useful as its initial quality.  Thomas will guide you through our best practices! So what are your next best actions when it comes to Continuing Education? How are you planning (or practicing) on subjects like student ownership, scaffolding, programatic assessments and lot's of other different topics.... We would love to have [a virtual coffee](https://meetings.hubspot.com/thomas-ohlenforst/blog-virtual-coffee) to get in to the subject and help you out. Or maybe you would rather get into more specific topics? On our [resources page](https://drieam.com/resources/) on our website you'll find more video's and articles that could help you out. 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