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A small open-source toolkit for Actionable Experience Surveys — a survey method I designed to replace flat “lovely” scores with feedback you can act on.
Actionable Experience Surveys (AES) are a survey method I designed to replace flat “lovely” satisfaction scores with feedback you can actually act on. Every question uses an unbiased prompt, four or more real-sentence answer options, and a mapping to bands (Alarming → Concerning → Acceptable → Superior). The result is a headline number and a specific to-do list, from the same question.
AESurvey Studio is the small open-source toolkit that makes AES easy to run: a report analyser, a survey builder, and a browser-based take page. Everything runs client-side — no server, no login, no data touching anyone else’s infrastructure.
Full write-ups on the Lab: Why the method exists → · Why I built the tool →
1. Explore a report
Click Load sample data below to see what a completed AES report looks like — twelve respondents across four questions. Hover any band segment for the statement respondents picked, and expand a question’s comments to read what they said. Or drop in your own response files.
2. Build your own survey
Write the questions, tag each statement to a band, and get a shareable link. Send that link to your respondents — they take the survey in their browser and email you their responses, or copy a link that opens the report above with their single answer pre-loaded. No server, no login, no data on anyone else’s infrastructure.
Click Load demo inside the builder to see how the example above is put together.
3. Deploy in your own LMS
A ready-to-upload example AES survey — a short post-workshop reflection on giving effective feedback. It records each respondent’s band, the exact statement they picked, and any free-text comment as SCORM interactions, so you can export the responses (as a Track-details CSV from Totara, or the equivalent from any modern LMS) and drop them into the report above.
Download the SCORM package
- SCORM 2004 (.zip) — for most modern LMSs (Totara, Moodle, SCORM Cloud, etc.)
- SCORM 1.2 (.zip) — for older LMSs that don’t support 2004