Survey Options Page
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This tab contains a miscellany of options for your survey. When you make changes to any of the options on this page, make sure you hit the "Save Changes Now" button before navigating to another tab.
[edit] Survey Name
Type a new name on this line and hit "Save Changes Now" to re-name your survey.
[edit] Back Button
Check this box to give respondents a back button.The button will only allow them to go back to the beginning of the current block.
[edit] Save and Continue
Checking this box enables respondents to complete the survey in more than one sitting. The survey will save as a cookie on their browser so the respondent can complete it later.
[edit] Survey Language
This box is not a survey translator! This button only changes the language of the instructional and error messages the system displays to a survey respondent (i.e. "the value entered must be between 1 and 10") not the entire survey. So, if you have written a survey in Arabic, you should set this box to Arabic.
[edit] Survey Header and Footer
Text entered here will appear at the top or bottom of every page in your survey. Make sure to preview the survey with your header and footer; some survey skins handle headers and footers differently than others, and you may or may not like the outcome.
[edit] Progress Bar
To give your respondents an idea of how close they are to the end of the survey. If your survey is long with many pages, you may want to include a progress bar to keep them from going insane (and to increase your survey completions rate).
[edit] Next/Previous Button
Entering text in these boxes will cause the text displayed on the back previous button and next button to change. In order for the previous button to change text you must click the back button box at the top of the page.
[edit] Allow anyone to take this survey / Allow only those who receive invitation emails to take the survey (requires Qualtrics Mailer)
This is an admittedly limited use option. Any time you send your survey using the Qualtrics Mailer, your survey will be limited to those you sent it to. However, if you had previously distributed the default survey link for pre-testing purposes or as a distribution method you decided to cancel, choosing to limit the survey takers to those who received the invitation email will deactivate the default link.
[edit] Survey Password
If you enable this option, a page requiring the password you specify will appear as the first page of your survey. This page will have the same color scheme as the rest of your survey.
[edit] Prevent Ballot Box Stuffing
This function is only necessary if you are NOT distributing your survey via the Qualtrics Mailer. The Qualtrics Mailer sends each respondent a unique link, which means no respondent can take the survey twice. The other distribution options use a generic link which is the same for every respondent. When "Prevent Ballot Box Stuffing" is turned on, the system will put a cookie on the computer of each respondent who takes the survey via the generic link. The cookie will not allow that person to come back in and take the survey once they have completed it.
[edit] Survey Expiration
The default setting here is "This survey does not expire." If you want your survey to turn on and shut off after a certain date, choose the second check box and enter the "valid from" and "valid to" dates. The date you specify for it to expire means the survey will expire at the very beginning of that day (basically 12:01am, or more specifically 12:00:01am MST).
Note: Survey Expiration and Survey Deactivation are two different ways to make your survey unavailable. An expired survey is not necessarily an inactive survey. Activation and expiration are different functions. If you have an expired survey that you wish to re-distribute, you must not only turn off the expiration date, but make sure the survey is active as well.
[edit] Record Partial Data
You may set this option to close surveys that have not been finished and record the partial data (the questions the respondents did answer) in your results. The Qualtrics system allows survey takers to return and finish a survey if they have exited halfway through. When you set the Record Partial Data option, you are disallowing respondents to return and finish their survey if a certain amount of time has elapsed since they left it.
[edit] Survey Termination
Several options for ending the survey are available here. You may choose to have respondents shown a default message, which says "We thank you for your time spent taking this survey." You may also choose to have respondents shown a message from your library (you must create the message in your library before you can insert it here). In the first dropdown box, choose the library the message is in. In the second dropdown box, choose the message. You can also re-direct the survey takers to another web page by checking the radio button and entering the URL for that page in the box given.
[edit] Thank you email
IF YOU DISTRIBUTED YOUR SURVEY USING THE QUALTRICS MAILER, you may create a thank-you message in your library and have it automatically emailed to every respondent who completes the survey. Click the check-box, and in the first dropdown box choose the library, and in the second dropdown box choose the message.
[edit] Inactive Survey Message
The system has a default message that will be shown to people who attempt to take a deactivated survey. If you would like to show a custom message (i.e. to tell them a date when the survey will become active again), click the radio button and choose the library in the first drop-down box and choose the message in the second drop-down box. You must create the message in the library before you can activate it here.
[edit] Survey Look and Feel
You may come to the "Survey Options" tab and change the survey look and feel at any point. We call these different look and feel templates "skins." First, choose a library from the first dropdown menu (many accounts will only have one library available). The second dropdown lets you choose between skins that allow multiple questions per page and those that allow only one question per page. Note: If you choose a skin that allows only one question per page, this will override the page structure you may have built into your survey (page breaks, etc.). There will never be more than one question on any page.
[edit] Survey Response Sets
Think of a response set as a "bucket" into which data is collected. Normal data collection places all of your data into the "Default Response Set." For most surveys, this is sufficient. However, you may create other response sets which will split your completed data into discrete groups that can be viewed and downloaded separately. Response sets can differentiate your data in two ways:
- By Time: When you activate a new response set, all future incoming data will be placed in that response set rather than the old one. This will give you data in two sets (for example, a pre-October 15th and a post-October 15th response set).
- By Mailing: Using the Qualtrics Mailer, you may specify the response set into which the data for a particular mailing will be placed.
- To create a new response set, click on the "Manage Response Sets" button. You will be shown a window with two boxes. The top has a list of the response sets you have created. To create a new response set, click the "add response set" button. To activate a response set and make it the one into which all data is placed from this point on, highlight the response set and click on "Set as Active." Only one response set may be active at a time.
The active response set will collect all incoming data unless it is overridden by a response set assigned to a particular mailing. Data for such a mailing will always be
