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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

Help & support

Can questions be made compulsory?

Yes. To make a question compulsory: Create a new question, or edit an existing question. Click on Advanced options. In the Optionality & dependency section, choose Required. Click Add question

The components of a respondent list

…been assigned to a question in the survey. are limited to 255 characters. can use any character (including spaces and non-Latin characters). are used to provide responses to pre-populated questions….

Importing your respondent list

…been assigned to a pre-populated question in the survey (see our Help page on pre-populating questions for more information). Examples Your spreadsheet might look something like this: Example 1: Username…

Survey access control

…of a respondent. Anyone in possession of a valid username/password combination or personalised URL (that has not already been used to complete a survey) can access a survey and provide…

Filtering using multiple criteria

…useful to combine criteria with ‘or’ or ‘not’, or create a more complex filter. For example, you may want to define a group by whether they have given a certain…

Why should I always pilot my survey?

questions do not return the information that you need. For example, you may find that the flexibility of a free text question is great for your respondents, but you end…