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Online surveys Security

…commit to achieving and maintaining a grade of at least A when tested by SSLLabs. You can view the current status at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk&hideResults=on. Data is not encrypted whilst at rest…

The components of a respondent list

100 characters. can use any character (including spaces and non-Latin characters). are used to access the survey, in combination with the respective username. Passwords that are auto-generated by online surveys…

Importing your respondent list

…and email address (columns A and C) supplied by the survey author. Password and token (columns B and D) left blank for online surveys to generate automatically. No information provided…

Using piping in your survey

…placed all the anchors you wish to use in your survey. You can use the same anchor as many times in your survey as you like, as long as the…

Common problems when importing or exporting respondents

…and Notepad to create a CSV file that retains foreign language characters: https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2014/04/24/convert-excel-csv/#export-csv-utf8 Alternatively, try using Google Sheets, OpenOffice, LibreOffice or another application to work with your CSV file. Numbers…

Introduction to routing

Routing (also known as skip-logic or branching) allows you to direct a respondent through your survey based on the answers that they give. If a respondent provides a particular answer…

Glossary of online surveys terms

…users (Project account) FAQ for Admin users (Organisation account) Analyse View the responses to your survey and perform analyses on the data. Accessing survey responses Anonymity When applied to respondents/responses,…

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