I brought this up before, but can't find the thread now.

Whether using Survey Maker to create simple content pages or for actual surveys, the page must be ACTIVE for anyone to access it. That's intuitive, but I'd like to test some surveys among our reunion team and don't want to make the survey active yet.

Just distributing the URL for the survey page (I turned it on, captured the URL, then turned it off) leads to a blank page.

This "access only by URL" might allow me to place the link to the survey about the 2011 reunion on a page that describes the events being planned so that those taking the survey would be informed of the details as we know them.

Note that with Announcements, it's possible to share the URL of an inactive announcement -- is that because there's a PREVIEW function? Is that a way to make something similar happen to Survey pages?

Yes we can do this on our next Survey Maker update.

Do you have any idea when the next Survey Maker update will occur? I would like to clean up our navigation panel by just having one link to our many surveys which would be at levels 2, 3 etc. Thanks.

The Survey Maker update will be after ClassCreator 3.0 is release, We have no estimate when this will be completed.

Couldn't you just copy the source from a survey and then create a Gallery and paste the data into that? Do that for each survey by adding to the same Gallery - via another sub-gallery. You don't need pictures.

If you skip the main gallery description you can then put links on first gallery page that points to all the other sub-gallery pages with your surveys.

Trying to keep it short, but that's the idea. Galleries are very flexible and somewhat under-utilized on CC.