Configure and publish Public Survey Reports
Last updated: October 28, 2026
Public Survey Reports allow you to share selected survey results with families, community members, and other stakeholders without requiring a Panorama account. Global Administrators can configure which results, comparisons, topics, and filters are available publicly, review the reports, and publish them when ready.
Who this is for: Global Administrators who manage public survey reporting. Only Global Administrators can configure, preview, publish, and unpublish Public Survey Reports.
How Public Survey Reports work
Public Survey Reports provide a dedicated public reporting experience for approved survey results. Public viewers can explore published results without signing in to Panorama.
Each Panorama client has one public reporting link. As you publish additional survey administrations, those results become available within the same public reporting experience rather than creating separate public links.
Public Survey Reports use the same underlying reporting behavior as Survey Reporting where applicable. This includes features such as existing scoring, response counts, confidentiality thresholds, benchmarks, change over time and organization groups configurations.
Public Survey Reports are configured separately from your internal Survey Reporting experience. This allows you to control what community members can access without changing what internal Panorama users see.
What information can be shared publicly?
Global Administrators can configure which eligible survey administrations and reporting levels are available publicly.
Depending on your organization's configuration, public reporting can include:
Student survey results
Teacher and staff survey results
Family survey results
Topic scores and visualizations
Response counts
Eligible demographic breakdowns
Configured comparisons
You can configure public reporting at supported organizational levels, including:
State, for applicable multi-district organizations
District
School
When you enable a reporting level, all eligible organizations at that level are included. You cannot select individual schools within an enabled reporting level.
Create a Public Survey Reports configuration
A configuration template determines how eligible survey administrations appear in your public reports. You can reuse a template across administrations that should have the same public reporting settings.
Public Reports configurations follow the Basics → Features → Filters → Review workflow. Use these steps to choose which information will be available to public viewers before assigning the configuration to survey administrations.
In Platform Admin, under Surveys, open Public Reports.
Under Configuration templates, select Create new configuration.
Enter a name that helps your team identify how the configuration will be used.
Under Report levels, select the reporting levels you want to make publicly available.
In Features, indicate whether to include Response Rates in the public report.
The Features step lets you configure reporting options such as Response Rates and comparisons before making results available publicly.
Configure comparisons
The Comparisons section allows you to control whether public viewers can compare survey results across eligible reporting levels.
Turn on Include comparisons to make eligible comparison options available in public reports.
Under Compare to District, enable For School reports if you want viewers to compare school-level results with district-level results.
Review any additional comparison options available for your organization.
State-level organizations may have additional comparison options, depending on their reporting structure and configuration.
Note: Comparison results appear only when the necessary Survey Permissions are enabled and the corresponding data is available.
Choose which survey topics appear publicly
The Survey content section allows you to control which topics appear in public reports without changing the topics available in internal Survey Reporting.
By default, Include all topics is enabled, so all eligible survey topics are included in your public reporting configuration.
To customize which topics are available:
In Features, select Show advanced options.
Under Survey content, turn off Include all topics.
In the Topic availability table, review the available survey topics.
Use Show for District and Show for School to select which topics appear at each reporting level.
Selected topics appear in the corresponding public reports. Topics that are not selected are hidden from that reporting level.
For example, you can make a topic available in district-level reports while excluding it from school-level reports.
Use the search field to find a specific topic.
Note: These settings control topic visibility in Public Survey Reports only. They do not change the topics available in internal Survey Reporting. Existing confidentiality protections continue to apply.
Configure demographic filters
In Filters, decide which demographic filters public viewers can use to explore published survey results.
Filters can be configured separately for supported reporting levels. Available filters depend on the demographic data included in each survey administration.
When a demographic filter is available publicly, it can also affect available View By options and question-level demographic breakdowns.
Review and save your configuration
Before saving, review the configuration to confirm which results and reporting options will be available publicly.
Select Next step to open Review.
Confirm your selections for reporting levels, features, comparisons, survey topics, and filters.
Select Save configuration.
The template will now be available to assign to eligible survey administrations.
Public Survey Reports follow existing Survey Reporting settings for scores, response counts, confidentiality thresholds, and hidden questions. Benchmarks and change-over-time results, when available, follow the underlying reporting configuration. Public report settings control what is shared externally without changing the internal Survey Reporting experience.
Note: Saving a configuration template does not publish survey results. You must assign the template to a survey administration and publish the report before results become publicly available.
Assign a configuration to survey administrations
Survey administrations need a configuration template before they can be previewed and published.
On the Public Reports page, locate the survey administration you want to configure.
Select Assign configuration template.
Choose the appropriate configuration template, then select Assign template.
Once a configuration has been assigned, the survey administration becomes available under Ready to publish, where you can review it before making the results public.
Preview Public Survey Reports before publishing
Previewing Public Survey Reports helps you confirm which results community members will see before publishing.
Use the Ready to publish preview experience to review reports awaiting publication alongside those that are already published.
Before publishing, review the following:
Are the right survey administrations published and unpublished?
Are all the reporting levels showing up as expected and as you set?
Are the right demographic filters showing up for each of your surveys and the appropriate reporting levels?
Are you seeing what you expect at the topic-level and question-level?
Are you seeing the expected confidentiality thresholds being upheld?
The preview can include reports that are already published alongside reports that are ready to publish. This helps you review how the combined public experience will appear.
Tip: Review reports from the perspective of a community member who does not use Panorama regularly. Confirm that the available information supports your organization's communication goals.
Publish Public Survey Reports
Publish a survey administration after you have reviewed its configuration and confirmed that the public experience is ready.
On the Public Reports page, locate the survey administration under Ready to publish.
Review the assigned configuration.
Select Publish.
After you confirm publication, the survey administration moves to Published and its results become available through your organization's public reporting link.
You can publish additional survey administrations over time. Newly published reports are added to the same public reporting experience.
Share your public reporting link
Your organization has one main public reporting link for all published Public Survey Reports.
You can find your organization's link in the Public Link section of the Public Reports page. Select Copy link to share the published reporting experience through channels such as:
Your district or school website
Newsletters
Family communications
Community reports
Other stakeholder communications
Public viewers do not need a Panorama username, password, or account.
Public reporting can also support links to more specific locations within the published experience, such as a particular survey, topic, project, or reporting page.
All Survey Results
The All Survey Results page provides an overview of the survey results available for the selected organization and project.
Viewers can explore published topics and use approved demographic filters when available.
When demographic filters are included in the public configuration, viewers can apply one filter at a time. Available filters determine which demographic breakdowns can be explored in the published results.
Only topics included in the public reporting configuration will appear, subject to the applicable confidentiality and reporting rules.
Topic Reports
Viewers can select a topic to explore more detailed results, including question-level information when available.
Question-level confidentiality continues to apply throughout Topic Reports.
Compare Schools and Groups
When available, viewers can compare published results across eligible schools and groups.
The available View By options and filters are determined by the public reporting configuration.
Available comparisons also depend on the comparison settings selected in the configuration template and the corresponding report data.
Change or unpublish a report
You can update your public reporting experience as your organization's needs change.
To adjust a survey administration, return to Public Reports and update its assigned configuration.
To remove published results from public access, select Unpublish for the applicable survey administration.
Unpublishing takes effect immediately.
Important: A configuration template cannot be deleted while survey administrations are assigned to it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to existing Classic public reporting links?
Once the redirect is active, Classic public reporting links direct viewers to the new Public Survey Reports overview page. Viewers can navigate to the available published reports from there.
Do public viewers need a Panorama account?
No. Anyone with access to the published public reporting link can view the available results without signing in.
Does publishing a report make everything in Survey Reports public?
No. Public Survey Reports have their own configuration, and some information is excluded from public reporting.
Global Administrators control which eligible survey administrations, reporting levels, topics, comparisons, and demographic filters are available publicly.
Can I preview reports before publishing?
Yes. The preview experience lets you review reports that are ready to publish alongside reports that are already publicly available.
Can I reuse a configuration template?
Yes. You can apply the same configuration template to multiple eligible survey administrations that should use the same public reporting settings.
Can I remove a report after publishing it?
Yes. Select Unpublish to remove the survey administration from the public reporting experience.
How do Public Survey Reports protect confidential information?
Public Survey Reports follow the same confidentiality rules as Survey Reporting. Topic, question, and demographic results remain hidden when they do not meet the applicable confidentiality threshold. Confidential demographic groups are also suppressed according to your existing confidentiality rules.
What information is not available in Public Survey Reports?
Public Survey Reports do not include About Teacher results, About Student results, free-response data, student-level data, AI Insights, or Completion Lists. Teacher filters and teacher comparisons are also not available in the public reporting experience.
Can public viewers use demographic filters?
Yes. Public viewers can apply one demographic filter at a time when demographic filters are included in the public report configuration. Before publishing, review the public report to confirm the available filters and results match your organization’s intended public reporting experience.