You can invite others to give feedback on your survey design by opening a review session, sharing your survey preview link or sending an invite to comment. 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 a preview of your survey’s design by copying and sharing the preview link or opening a review session. 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.
Teams and Enterprise users can also tag teammates in comments using @mentions or share surveys with others to collaborate on the survey’s design.
You can share your survey preview by copying the preview link or sending an email invitation asking for feedback. Anyone can test your survey and those signed into a SurveyMonkey account may be able to post comments. Only the survey owner can invite people to the preview by email and turn commenting on or off to gather feedback.
To close the Review Session early and remove all guest access, turn the toggle off.
When a review session is opened or expires, collaborators are given varying levels of view, edit and sharing permissions based on your plan type, survey settings and whether or not they have a SurveyMonkey account. Choose your
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.
Note: Guests will be asked for their name when opening the review session link. Everyone with access to the review session can see comments made, and are able to reply to them.
Only the survey owner can share their preview link. Guests and other users can preview and comment on the survey, but will not be able to share the link.
While review session is active:
After review session ends:
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.
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.
[Teams only] Anyone, with or without a SurveyMonkey account, can post a comment in a review session.
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.
Anyone can view your survey preview or the shared data page. However, viewers need to sign in to a SurveyMonkey account to view comments on a survey preview or shared data page.
[Teams only] Everyone with access to the review session can see comments made, and are able to reply to them.
Click the Comment icon next to any question to display comments for that question.
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. Survey owners can then share their survey with those tagged members. |
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.