When faculty design a knowledge survey, their goal is to prepare a comprehensive set of questions that thoroughly addresses the content learning and skills to be communicated during the enactment of a course. Thus, Knowledge Surveyor assumes that many knowledge survey questions will be used year after year. It also assumes that, in classes with multiple instructors (e.g. multiple sections), many faculty would spontaneously assemble a comparable set of questions. Consequently, Knowledge Surveyor places contributed questions into a permanent Question Bank that serves as a community resource from which all teachers of a class are free to choose.

• Contributed questions are filed according to course topic, and can be cross-listed.
• Questions can be flagged with the levels of reasoning (Bloom levels) the teacher intends to elicit from the students.
• Audio and visual aids (e.g. music clips, language samples, photographs, and diagrams) can be uploaded and inserted into a contributed question.