SurveyMethods enables you to create and launch anonymous surveys to guarantee privacy to your respondents, resulting in more candid and useful responses. When you create a survey and make it anonymous, the setting is permanent for that survey and cannot be changed. When a respondent clicks on the survey link for an anonymous survey launched […]
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Add Instructions to Your Survey Questions
You can create special instructions for any question in your survey, which are displayed when respondents click on the help icon while taking the survey. To add your instructions, click on the Instructions tab at the bottom of the full question edit screen. Then check the box to enable instruction text and enter your instructions […]
Points Questions
Points-based questions allow you to assign point values to one or more of the answer choices. You can then use those point values to “score” a response or use them in your analysis. When Can You Use Point-Based Questions? Online tests: If you are a training company or a trainer, you can create online tests […]
Converting from Paper Surveys or Inputting Survey Results on Behalf of Respondents
This article describes best practices for deploying a survey using SurveyMethods and entering paper/hard copy survey results into your online survey. Survey Creation Once you create your survey online using SurveyMethods and it is ready to be deployed, create a paper version of your survey in a tool such as Microsoft Word, or export your […]
Panel Integration
Overview With panel integration you can distribute your survey through a panel company in order to gather a desired number of responses from people that fit certain demographic criteria. Panel companies typically provide 3 URLs for the survey to redirect to depending on the category respondents fall into: Complete and Redirect to Website Disqualified and […]
Manage Your Event Using SurveyMethods’ Event Registration Surveys
SurveyMethods’ Event Management surveys allow you to automate and manage your event registration process. Among other features, you can: Create events and add them to your survey Gather information from registrants and enable them to register for one or more events in the same survey Customize and automate event registration confirmation emails Review and manage […]
Testing Your Survey (Survey Preview)
There are several different ways that you can test or preview your survey: From the My Surveys page From within the Survey Design page Using the survey web URL Previewing Your Survey from the My Surveys Page From the My Surveys page, you can test any of your surveys by clicking on the survey title. […]
Survey Quotas
Overview A quota is a limit on the number of responses for your survey that fit a specified set of criteria. They enable survey administrators to gather a desired number of responses from different groups of respondents, and enable you receive the desired mix of responses (e.g. equal responses from each age group, gender, or […]
Survey Question Types
SurveyMethods provides 23 different question types for designing your surveys, providing the flexibility you need to conduct effective surveys. The question types are broken down into the following four categories: Choice-Based Questions Matrix Questions Open-Ended Questions Other Below you’ll see a description of each question type along with a sample question. Choice-Based Questions Question Type […]