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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Cross tabulating responses

Cross tabulation allows you to look at the relationship between variables in your survey responses. For example, you can compare answers by gender, age group, region or departments, or find…

Comparing responses from several surveys

You can compare the responses from two or more surveys that have the same structure or contain matching questions. This allows you to, for example: Compare different language versions of…

Piloting your survey

The best way to check a survey before its official launch is to pilot a full version of it. This ‘dry run’ of your survey allows you to test all…

Merging responses from several surveys

You can merge the responses from two or more surveys that have the same structure (the same number, type and order of the questions). For the merge process to work,…

Managing account responsibilities

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. Every online surveys account must have a Primary Contact (PC) and at least one Billing Contact….

Question types

Questions with pre-defined answers Questions with pre-defined answers, or closed-ended questions, can make a survey quick for respondents to complete. They also create response data that is easy to quantify…

Pre-populating questions

There is a known issue with pre-populated question settings. Visit our Known Issues page for more information. As well as asking respondents to fill in information about themselves you can…

Adding a new user to your account

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. New users are added to your account from the Users tab in the account management screens….

Setting user access levels

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. All registered and active users in an account can be given permission to access surveys by…

Removing a user from your account

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. If you want to remove a user’s access to their online surveys account, you have two…

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