Building your Survey

Create a New Survey

Once you have typed a name and chosen a stylesheet, you can click the insert button.

Your survey will show on the survey list.

Click the edit link that's in the same row as your survey. You'll see a screen like below. This is a blank survey builder page where you will add questions. NOTE: Screen shot below was taken during beta process so it may look a bit different than below. At this point you are ready to add a new question.

Add a Question

 Click add to add a new question.

Understanding Question Types

There are seven basic question types:

1. Chosee All that Apply - Presents several options to click and can choose all one or none.
   
   This is a Choose All That Apply Question: 
   Choose 1
   Choose 2
   Choose 3
   Choose 4
   
   
2. Choose one (Drop Down) - Presents several options in a dropdown allowing only one selection.
   
   
   Choose ONE (Drop Down): Choose 1Choose 2Choose 3Choose 4 
   
   
   
3. Choose One (Radio Buttons) - Presents several options in a radio button list but only allows one selection.
   
   
   Choose One (Radio Buttons): 
   Choose 1
   Choose 2
   Choose 3
   Choose 4
    
   
4. Matrix - The Matrix provides several statements, then up to ten degrees of agreement/disagreement with the choice. NOTE: It is difficult to retrieve raw data from a matrix if you need to analyze raw data use a series of radio button options to simulate a matrix.
   
   
   This is a Matrix (Rating Scale to 10): 
   

   	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
   Choose 1
   Choose 2
   Choose 3
   Choose 4

    
   
   
5. Text Answer - Allows a single line text entry good for collecting name address, city, state, postal, etc....
   
   
   Text Answer:  
   
   
   
6. True or False - Two options, Pretty straightforward!!!
   
   
   True or False: TrueFalse 
   
   
7. Note/Comment - Allows a text area for free form comments from surveyee.
   
   
   Note/Comment: 
   
   
   
8. Text Description - Pretty much what it says. It provides room for freeform text, maybe offering some guidance or instruction. If you are HTML saavy and use SiteBuilder you can include site images here as well.
   
   
   Description Text Here! 
   

Question Parameters

The question parameters section allows you to add and edit questions in your survey. There are 10 different parameter settings for each question. For some questions the parameters have no effect because they do not apply (For example scale only applies to the matrix). The list below itemizes and describes each of the question types.

1. SurveyID - Simply Identifies the survey, this is a read only property
2. QuestionType - Allows selection of question type via a drop down list (see previous section for details of question types) .
3. QuestionText - This is the actual text of the question you are asking. For example: how are you?
4. QuestionOptions - This is the option list for for multi-option questions and the Matrix. Type each option on a separate line.
5. SortOrder - Often times you will want to change the order of questions in your surveys. This number represents the questions order on the survey.
6. DateAdded - Informational, date the question was added to the survey.
7. Layout - Vertical and Horizontal are the options. Horizontal puts the question and options or input box on the same line. Vertical puts the question and each option or input box on different lines.
8. Scale - Affects the Matrix only, the scale is the number of degrees to your answers. For example How do you feel about this? (1 Indifferent, 5 Good, 10 Great).
9. Text field size - Allows you to specify the width of a text entry field (only affects text entry and notes/comments fields).
10. Comment Field Rows (Comments/Notes only): The number of rows (height) of the comment field.