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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Pre-populating questions

…also pre-populate your survey with information you already have about individuals or groups. This information can be shown to or hidden from respondents when they complete the survey. Pre-population can…

Setting your survey’s completion options

…a Continuing Professional Development course. If a completion receipt is required, you should select this option. Each respondent will be presented with a completion receipt upon their successful completion of…

Complex routing

This tutorial is about complex routing (or ‘branch-logic’) which you can use to create different routes through your survey that are the most relevant to each respondent. This page explains…

Managing users

This page is for administrators and Primary Contacts of Project or Organisation type accounts. This page provides instructions for carrying out the following common user management tasks: Access the user…

Providing limited access to results data

If you are a member of an Organisation account, online surveys allows you to provide limited access to results data to other users. This may be necessary or desirable where…

What is a ‘slug’?

A ‘slug’ is a short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. In online surveys, the term ‘slug’ is used to refer to the survey short name,…

Deleting surveys

…from online surveys and cannot be recovered. You can choose to permanently delete your surveys yourself at any time if you do not wish to wait 30 days for them…