 This "survey" is designed to demonstrate WebSurv's capabilities. You don't need to answer questions unless instructed to do so. Several places throughout this demo will allow you to see what happens when you enter invalid responses. We'll put instructions you need to pay attention to in a box like this one. |
Surveys contain several types of questions: numeric (integer and decimal), text (fixed response length or open-ended), multiple-choice (choose a single answer), and all-that-apply (like multiple choice but allows multiple answers). There are also many ways to present questions: answer box under the question wording or to the left or right side of the question wording, centered or left-justified, inside html tables, with various fonts and colors and background colors. Questions can be presented from as "plain vanilla" to as fancy as you want. WebSurv utilizes customizable question templates so you have a lot of control over appearance. We'll show a bit of variation as we go but first we'll concentrate on the very basics. The simplest question presentation for numeric and fixed-length text is with the answer box below the question wording as with the following question.
When the question wording is short, you may want the answer box on the same line as with these:
Answer box can go on the right side:
Answer box can go on the left side.
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With numeric fixed-length text questions, you define the length of the response you want, up to a maximum of 255 characters. Simplest presentation for open-ended questions is a single-line box as with the questions above. True open-ends, where you do not wish to restrict input to 255 characters can be presented with a multi-line box for questions such as "what are your comments?":
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Usually, the majority of survey questions have predefined answer choices, either single-value multiple-choice or all-that-apply. Simplest presentation for such questions is, again, answer choice under the question wording such as this one:
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Please select one choice below:
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All-that-apply questions use check boxes instead of "radio buttons" but are otherwise just like simple multiple-choice. With either type you can also choose to show the answers in more than 1 column like below. And you can choose to show the answer choices in natural (pre-defined) sequence or random sequence like below. Such randomizing is referred to as "random rotation" which can be applied to question sequences as well as answer choices and is used to remove bias that might be introduced by always asking questions about brands such that a particular brand is always mentioned first.
Answer choices can also be presented in drop-down boxes like this. Such questions are often used for questions with a lot of choices such as State or Country where the list would otherwise take up a lot of space on the page.
Rating questions are often presented like this.
Very Bad
Excellent
Or like this with a "does not apply" or "no opinion" choice:
Very Bad
Excellent . . No Opinion
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You can attach "other-please specify" questions to one or more choices like this:
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| If you check an "Other" choice in this type of question, you would be expected to also fill in a value in the "specify" field and WebSurv can (optionally) enforce that rule. To test this error handling try checking the "Other" choice above but leave the "specify" field blank. Then hit the Continue button. |
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