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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Can questions be made compulsory?

(compulsory). Respondents will be unable to move from one survey page to the next (or submit their answers at the end of the survey) until they have provided a response…

Adding sub-questions

the parent question box. You can now: Preview your question/sub-question combination by clicking on the Preview icon at the top of the page that your questions appear on. Edit the

Providing limited access to results data

the the pop-up box. Click Save. To apply the limited view: Go to the Views section of the Analyse page. Click on the Apply view to another user button next…

Can I turn off (or change) question numbering?

You can turn question numbering on or off on the Survey settings page. Turning question numbers off will hide the question numbers from your respondents’ view of the survey. The

Sharing a survey with another user

…give full or limited access to a survey to other online surveys users. You can, for example, allow another user full access to the survey, or restrict the access so…

Changing your survey language

…any time, even after the survey has opened. You can run surveys in languages that are not supported. However, only the text you supply yourself (the text of questions, page

Adding contact and copyright information

Contact and copyright information is available to your survey respondents via links at the bottom of each survey page. The default contact message refers respondents to the survey author. You…