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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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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…

What is pre-population?

available on a survey. Four of these (username, password, email and token) are predefined and are used for survey access control purposes. The remaining ten parameters (named x1 – x10)…

Features not currently available in online surveys

available in previous versions, such as routing, piping, question validation, new question types and new distribution and analysis tools. Certain functionality that previously had to be purchased separately, such as…

Creating accessible surveys

Online surveys aims to follow the principles of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. However, accessibility is not just a technical issue. Creating an accessible online survey involves care in…

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…

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,…

Benchmarking

…Run the same survey across a group of institutions and compare your results against an anonymised aggregate. Online surveys has been used to run UK-wide benchmarking surveys since 2002. The

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