You can invite others to give feedback on your survey design by opening a review session. Once you collect survey responses, you can use a shared data page to invite others to give feedback on your survey results.
You can share your survey preview by starting a review session and copying the preview link. Anyone, with or without an account, can test your survey and post a comment. Only the survey owner can invite people to a review session and turn commenting on or off to gather feedback.
To share your survey preview:
If you’re on a team plan, you can tag teammates in comments by @mentions.
When you share a review session link with someone with a SurveyMonkey account, the survey is shared with them.
TIP! Reach out to the survey owner to extend your review session access.
When you open a review session, you can share out the link to anyone—even those who don't own a SurveyMonkey account (Guests). The level of survey access someone has depends on whether you're both on the same team, or if you, or they have their own account.
| Who | Access permissions | Is the survey shared? |
| Guest | Comment only | No |
| Logged in | Comment only | ✅ |
| Team member | Comment only* | ✅ |
*Team users are able to change survey access permissions for others on your team.
Guests will be asked for their name when opening the review session link. Everyone with access to the preview session can see comments made, and are able to reply to them.
Once you have survey responses, you can create a dashboard or shared data page so others can view your data and give feedback on survey results. When commenting is turned on, reviewers can post comments on the results of each survey question. Only the survey owner can invite people to the shared data page by email and turn commenting on or off to gather feedback.
To create and share a dashboard, read our article about Results Dashboards.
To invite people to your shared data page:
If you're on a team plan, you can share surveys with others and give them permission to create their own shared data page and export results.
When you select Invite in the dropdown, commenting automatically turns on. If you don't want people to comment, click the invite dropdown and turn commenting off after sharing your survey results.
You need a SurveyMonkey account to post comments on a survey preview, results dashboard, or shared data page. If you don’t have one already, you can sign up for free.
To post a comment:
Anyone can reply to comments on the survey preview or shared data page, as long as commenting is on.
Survey takers won’t see comments when they’re taking the live survey.
TIP! Collaborate on your survey design by tagging teammates directly in comments.
Anyone can view your survey preview or the shared data page, but needs to sign in to a SurveyMonkey account to view comments.
Click on the Comment icon next to any question to display comments for that question.
TIP! If you aren't the survey owner, you may need to take the survey preview to see comments to questions that aren’t on the first page.
Anyone can reply to comments, or edit and delete their own comments from the survey preview or shared data page.
Only survey owners can delete, resolve, or unresolve other people's comments—expand a section to learn more about managing comments.
| Action | Description |
| + Comment | Anyone can add a comment to a survey preview. Anyone logged into a SurveyMonkey account can add a comment on survey results. |
| Edit | Anyone can change and resave their own comments. |
| Delete | Anyone can delete their own comments. Survey owners can delete any comment.It isn't possible to delete a comment that's marked Resolved. To delete it, click Resolved to unresolve it first. |
| Resolved | Survey owners can click Unresolved to change the comment’s status to Resolved. This status can help survey owners to keep track of which comments have already been reviewed and acted on. |
| Unresolved | Survey owners can click Resolved to change the comment’s status to Unresolved. |
| Tag others [Teams only] | Team members can type @ and select a user on their team for commenting on Survey designs. |
You'll get an email notification for each new comment or reply to a comment on your survey or your shared data page.
You’ll receive an email notification when you’re invited to comment via email, or tagged by @mentions if you’re on a team plan. After you post a comment, you’ll get an email when people reply to comments you've left or if your comment is resolved by the survey owner.
TIP! Check out the Notification Center to see collaboration messages from the last 30 days.