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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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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…

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…

Online surveys Security

…within online surveys. Online surveys user passwords are hashed using PBKDF2 with a random salt. Jisc is responsible for the management of all cryptographic keys and material involved with online

Glossary of online surveys terms

…anonymity means that a person’s identity cannot be determined from the response information held in online surveys. The anonymity of online survey responses ultimately depends on the survey design decisions…

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…

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…

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