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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Adding a video or other media content

…your survey. Videos and other media can be embedded into a note or the ‘More info’ section in a question. Videos and other media cannot be embedded into question text….

Creating accessible surveys

…the use of grid and scale/rank questions. Images, audio and video When using images, audio and video in surveys, you should provide a text equivalent for this content. When inserting…

Including a consent statement

It may be necessary for you to obtain a statement of consent from your respondents to participate in your research, or a statement that they have read and agreed to…

Changing your survey language

The following languages are currently supported: Bosnian English French Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic) German Greek Italian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Ukrainian Welsh To change the language of your survey: On…

Adding files to your survey

…in your survey below; or For audio or video files hosted on a service such as YouTube or Vimeo, follow our instructions in our Help article Adding a video or…

Features not currently available in online surveys

…we may consider re-introducing them into a future release of online surveys. The features not currently available in the latest version of online surveys are: Email alerts on survey completion….

Filtering survey responses

…date or date range from the Filter by response date menu to the left of your responses summary. You can choose from: Today Yesterday Last 7 days Custom range If…

Creating a customised URL using piping

If you have not used piping in your survey before, please read our FAQ on piping first. You should also read our Help article on Using piping in your survey…