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1. TIM Tools Administrative Center<\/strong> Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n Getting Started<\/strong><\/p>\n Customization<\/strong><\/p>\n Managing Members<\/strong><\/p>\n Working with Data<\/strong><\/p>\n 2. TUPS<\/strong> 3. TIM-O \/ TIM-LP \/ TIM-R<\/strong> Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-O<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-R<\/strong><\/p>\n TIM-LP<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. ARTI<\/strong> 5. Report Tool<\/strong> 6. Survey Tool<\/strong> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ specialty_columns=”3″][et_pb_row_inner admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column_inner type=”4_4″ saved_specialty_column_type=”3_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”TTAG Header Blurb Text” _builder_version=”3.17.1″ saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”15999″ custom_padding=”||0px|”]<\/p>\n \n \n<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text Body” _builder_version=”3.17.1″]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This page describes customizing an existing Library Survey. If you’d rather build a survey from scratch, please see Creating a New Internal Survey<\/a> or Creating a New Public Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each TIM Tools instance comes with a starter collection of surveys created by FCIT with topics such as school volunteers, end-of-year tech checklist, cyberbullying, workshop evaluations, or home technology use. These surveys can be immediately used just as they are or they can be easily edited to customize them specifically for your school or district. Many of the surveys include some notes to the survey creator regarding customization right in the Introduction text.<\/a> You\u2019ll want to delete the customization notes before publishing the survey, of course.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Select a Survey to Customize<\/strong><\/p>\n From the main menu, select Survey Tool > Survey Maker > TIM Tools Survey Library<\/strong>. You will see a list of titles and descriptions of surveys in the library. Use the Preview Survey<\/strong> button to view any of the surveys that you are interested in. Once you have found a survey that you would like to customize, click the Clone Survey<\/strong> button. A copy of the selected survey will be added to the Internal Survey Builder<\/strong> tab where you can begin editing it. All cloned surveys will have “Shared Survey:” appended to the title to indicate that it has been shared from the Survey Library. You can rename the survey to anything you wish once you open it in the editor.<\/p>\n <\/a>In the Internal Survey Builder<\/strong> window, click the Edit Survey<\/strong> button for the survey you have just cloned.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Settings Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n When you select the “Edit Survey” button, the Settings<\/strong> panel for that survey will open. Here you can enter a short description for your survey, make the survey live, select notifications, and choose respondents.<\/p>\n Survey Title.<\/strong> The Survey Title<\/strong> will be the same as you saw in the Library, but with “Shared Survey:” appended to the front to distinguish it. You can edit the title if you wish. In any case, you’ll probably want to delete the “Shared Survey:” part now that you are customizing it yourself.<\/p>\n Short Description.<\/strong> The Short Description<\/strong> will appear next to your survey title in the Available Surveys list. You can edit this if your wish.<\/p>\n Live Survey.<\/strong> Changing the Live Survey<\/strong> setting to Yes will make it available to the indicated respondents. When set to No, it will be available only for editing purposes.<\/p>\n Notifications.<\/strong> The Notifications<\/strong> box allows you to add one or more email addresses when you want alerts to be sent at the time of each submission. You probably wouldn’t want to receive notification every time someone submits a general survey, but you might want to use this feature when creating a form such as a help request or bullying report.<\/p>\n Respondents.<\/strong> You can set Respondents<\/strong> to either “Public – ENTRY CODES” or to “Public – SELF-ENROL” or to any combination of member roles. Any survey taken by a member of the public will be tagged with their IP address to allow the filtering of duplicate responses if desired. Surveys taken by members will be tagged with their member ID.<\/p>\n \u2022 Public – Entry Codes.<\/strong> The title of a survey with this option will be visible to anyone who knows the URL of your TIM Tools public home page. However, only persons with a special code set by the survey creater will be able to enter the survey. You can create as many different codes for a survey as you would like. For example, you might distribute various codes to parents according to the school of their child. Or you may use different codes to identify groups of non-teaching staff that are not entered into your TIM Tools instance. You could distribute one code to custodial staff, another to office staff, another to bus drivers, etc. <\/p>\n If you select “Public – ENTRY CODES,” an additional option for Role and Entry Codes will appear below.<\/p>\n \u2022 Public – Self-Enroll.<\/strong> Anyone who knows the URL of your TIM Tools public home page will be able to participate in a survey with this option. Participants create their own unique code for entry into survey, which allows the particpant to return multiple times until the survey is submitted. <\/p>\n If you select either of the public options, the next time you return to edit the survey, you’ll find that it has been moved to the Public Survey Builder so that members with access only to internal surveys cannot edit or view responses from it.<\/p>\n \u2022 Member Roles.<\/strong> If you intend for this to be an internal survey, then select the member role or roles you wish to include. Once you have selected at least one internal role in the Respondents selector, an additional option for Targets will appear below.<\/p>\n Targets.<\/strong> When the Targets<\/strong> option appears, you can select whatever combination of schools or zones where you want the members to respond to the survey. If you have set up zones in your instance, the schools will be arranged alphabetically within each zone. If you have only the one default zone, the schools will appear as a single alphabetical list.<\/p>\n <\/a>When you have completed this panel, click the Save Changes to Settings<\/strong> button to save your work and then select Introduction and Closing Statement<\/strong> in the from the Survey Editor menu.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. Survey Introduction and Closing Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n The first screen participants will see is the Introduction<\/strong> screen. Make any changes you’d like to the Introduction text.<\/p>\n NOTE: Many of the surveys from the Library have an “Administrator Note” at the top of the Introduction window. These notes suggest things to consider when customizing the survey. They appear as an obnoxious purple Comic Sans font in previews to remind you to delete the note. The suggestions are not intended for publication as a part of your edited survey.<\/p>\n You can also add any image that you\u2019ve uploaded to the Web by using standard HTML code: <IMG SRC=\u201dYourURL\u201d>. We\u2019ve already uploaded a nice collection of welcome, thank-you, and prompt images you can use in survey construction. View these images at https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/project\/survey-parts-and-pieces\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The final screen participants will see is the Closing<\/strong> screen. Make any changes you’d like to the existing closing statement. As with the Introduction screen, you can use standard HTML to mark up your text and add images.<\/p>\n <\/a>When you\u2019re finished with the Introduction and Closing Statements, click the Save Changes to Introduction<\/strong>button and then select Add Sections<\/strong> from the Survey Maker menu.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These surveys are currently included in the Survey Library:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Figure 6. 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\nThe Administrative Center provides for management of the TIM Tools suite of applications. <\/em><\/p>\n\n
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\nThe ARTI tool provides a framework for teachers to design and conduct their own action research projects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
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TIM Tools 6.0 Administration Guide<\/h1>\n
Customizing a Library Survey<\/h2>\n
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Figure 1. Portion of the included Survey Library.<\/i><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Library-Settings.jpg\")
Figure 2. Settings Panel.<\/i><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Public-3-Codes.png\")
\nFigure 3. Three different parent codes were created for the survey.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/SurveyTargets.png\")
Figure 4. Two high schools selected as targets for the survey.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fcit.usf.edu\/matrix\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Library-Preview.jpg\")
Figure 5. Previewing a survey. The ugly purple text contains suggestions for the survey editor. This section should be deleted before the survey is made live.<\/em><\/p>\nLibrary of Surveys<\/h3>\n
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