Commenting on Surveys and Results
You can invite people to comment on both your survey design in preview mode and your survey results via a shared data page. This way you can work together on surveys in SurveyMonkey, instead of sending feedback back-and-forth via email.
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Inviting People to Comment |
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When you invite someone to comment on your survey design, you're sharing your survey preview. When you invite someone to comment on your survey results, you’re sharing a shared data page. Survey Preview
Preview mode lets people test out the survey design and comment on questions. Survey responses aren't recorded in preview mode. If you're on a team, only the survey owner can invite people to comment by email. Even if you have full editing access to a shared survey, you can't invite others to comment by email. To invite someone to comment on your survey design by email:
You can also copy the URL from the address bar to share your preview with others. Anyone with the preview link can see comments, and anyone with the link who's also signed into a SurveyMonkey account can leave comments. TIP! If you're in a team, you can share surveys with others and give them full editing access to your survey.
Shared Data Page
When you invite someone to comment on your survey results, you’re sharing your results in a shared data page. To invite someone to comment on your surveys results by email:
When commenting is turned on, you can also copy and share the URL to your shared data page. Anyone with the link can see and leave comments on your survey results. If you'd like to restrict access, you can make your page Password Restricted or turn sharing off. You can create multiple shared data pages and share them intentionally. For example, create a page for getting feedback and another with comments restricted. |
Turning Commenting On or Off |
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You can turn commenting on or off at any time. This either allows or restricts people from commenting, deleting, and resolving comments. If you're on a team, only survey owners can turn commenting on or off. If you have full editing access to a shared survey, you can't turn commenting on or off. Survey Preview
To turn commenting on or off:
Shared Data Page
To turn commenting on or off:
Any unresolved or undeleted comments display on a shared data page even if commenting has been turned off. |
Leaving Comments |
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You can comment on a survey preview or a shared data page if you're invited by the survey owner via email, or if someone shared a direct URL with you. You’ll need a SurveyMonkey account to leave comments. If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up for free. To view or make comments:
Survey owners and commenters can see all comments, write new comments, reply to comments, edit or delete their own comments, or delete comment threads they started. Only survey owners can resolve comment threads or delete any comments. TIP! If your account is linked with Microsoft 365, you can
@mention in comments to notify an Microsoft 365 contact. |
Email Notifications |
Survey OwnersIf you have daily summary notification turned on, you'll get an email notification for each comment, reply to a comment, or deleted comment on your survey or your shared data page. CommentersIf you're invited to comment by email, click Open Survey and log in or sign up for an account to comment. Make sure the account email address matches the email address your invitation was sent to. You'll get an email notification when people reply to comments you've left, leave comments on threads you're part of, or if your comment is resolved or deleted by the survey owner. Opting OutYou can opt out of commenting alerts directly from one of the email notifications—just click the link to manage alerts for this survey. If you want to opt back in later, the same link in the email notification will allow you to re-activate commenting notifications for that survey. |