Once in a while, you’ll want to use the survey web part for one reason or another. There are awesome tools like Yammer polls, Microsoft Forms, etc. but sometimes the only tool suitable for a specific use case is still the out-of-the-box SharePoint survey app.
If you search for it when adding a new app and get “We didn’t find a match here, but check out…” don’t fret. It’s tied to a site feature that apparently isn’t activate on your site. This applies to both on-prem and online/O365 environments.
To get the survey app as an option on your site, you’ll need to be a site owner who can activate the Team Collaboration Lists site feature (settings wheel > Site settings > Manage site features).
Once you activate it, your site will now be able to add these apps:
- Document library
- Custom list
- Tasks
- Picture library
- Issue tracking
- Survey
- Discussion board
- …and much more
Here’s a quick GIF demonstrating activation of the required feature:
team collaboration lists feature enabled, yet survey app still missing
I had the same experience and then found that by activating the site collection feature named, SharePoint Lists and Libraries Experience, that the survey, discussion boards, Announcements and other classic apps were showing. Hope this works for you too!