---
title: "Feedback activity settings"
slug: "feedback-activity-settings"
tags: ["Totara Learn", "Reference", "Content Creator"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:31Z
canonical: "totara.help/feedback-activity-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://totara.help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Feedback activity settings

## Feedback settings

When [setting up a feedback activity](/19/docs/set-up-a-feedback-activity), you can configure the following settings.

| **Setting** | **Description** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Name | Give your feedback resource a title. | - |
| Description | Text will be displayed to users before they enter the feedback. | - |
| Display description on course page | If enabled, the description above will be displayed on the course page just below the link to the activity or resource. | - |
| Allow answers from and to | This allows you to set a time period during which the feedback will be available to responses. | - |
| Record user names | Choose from the following options: - Anonymous - Users' names will be logged and shown with answers | Note that feedback will not be timestamped if this setting is set to **Anonymous**. |
| Allow multiple submissions | Anonymous polls allow unlimited answers for every user, for polls where the username is logged this allow users to resubmit their answers. | - |
| Enable notification of submissions | Notifications will be sent to Trainers and Editing Trainers upon the submission. | - |
| Auto number questions | If you choose **Yes** the feedback questions will be automatically numbered. | - |
| Show analysis page | The summary results can be shown to respondents, or shown only to Trainers. | - |
| Completion message | Allows you to write a comment/statement the learner sees after completing the feedback activity. | - |
| Link to next activity | After submitting the feedback, a continue button is displayed, which links to the course page. Alternatively, it may link to the next activity if the URL of the activity is entered here. | - |
| Common module settings | See [common module settings](/19/docs/common-module-settings) to learn more. | - |
| Activity completion | See [activity completion](/19/docs/activity-completion) to learn more. | - |
| Restrict access | See [restricting access](/19/docs/restricting-access-to-course-activities) to learn more. | - |
| Tags | See [tags](/19/docs/what-are-tags) to learn more. | - |

## Plugin settings

As well as the configurable settings within each individual feedback activity, Site Administrators can also configure site-wide settings for the feedback by going to *Quick-access menu >* *Plugins > Activity modules > Feedback*.

| **Setting** | **Description** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allow full anonymous | If set to **yes**, users can complete a feedback activity on the front page without being required to log in. | - |
| Maximum days since completion | Course or activity completions older than this will not be considered when sending out feedback reminders. Zero or an empty value represents no limit. | - |

![Course badge](https://cdn.document360.io/a007399b-031e-436b-999a-528240e16f58/Images/Documentation/course-badge_feedback-and-choice.svg?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-06T06%3A35%3A29Z&se=2026-11-06T07%3A35%3A29Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=SSHAjlVWW334vPTKo6uMGQD6Muo5Jwvxz%2Fn1BcAAS9s%3D)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using [Feedback and choice](https://totara.community/course/view.php?id=308) activities in Totara Learn. Here you can learn more on how to use these tools, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.

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