GroupSurveys Online Surveys Blog!

You can now set limits on your survey, such as the maximum amount of responses you wish to collect or a cut-off date.

To set this up, go to the “Settings” tab of your survey and you’ll find some new options…

– If you wish to limit your survey to a certain number of responses, enter the number of responses you wish to limit to and once this number is reached, no further responses will be collected and your survey will be closed.

– You can also enter an expiry date for your survey .. again, once the date is reached your survey will be closed.

Note: You can fill in one or both fields if required. The survey will stop collecting responses when the first limit is reached i.e. number of responses or date. You can also leave both fields blank if you do not wish to set limits.

Please keep sending us your feature requests, is there anything you’d really like to see added to GroupSurveys? If so, just drop us an email to support@group-surveys.com

Thanks
GroupSurveys Team

We’ve just released a new feature that allows you to include extra text, html code or images to your surveys.

When you click Add Question, the “Question Type” drop-down menu now includes 3 new options:

- Separator – Image
- Separator – Text
- Separator – HTML Code

The Image separator allows you to add images to your survey. So, if you want to ask a question about a picture or graph.. this is for you!

The Text separator allows you to insert text anywhere within your survey – this may be useful if you want to include some extra information or instructions for your audience.

The HTML separator is for more experienced users who are familiar with the basics of HMTL. It allows you to add some simple html code to your survey such as tables, images etc.

As always, if you’ve any queries .. please get in touch!

GroupSurveys Team

There are some great customization features available for your online surveys such as the option to change the language of your survey, add custom welcome and finish messages, custom error messages, headers and page numbers etc.

This short video tutorial will show you how to get started:

How to Change the Content of Your Online Surveys from Tom O'Leary on Vimeo.

You may have noticed a few new changes to your online surveys account this morning (If you’ve already had your coffee)…

1. We’ve now teamed up with cleverbridge to process your orders. This allows us to offer many more payment options, such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express, JCB, Paypal, Wire Transfer, Check, Money Order or Cash.

2. We’ve also added two new annual account to GroupSurveys.

– GroupSurveys Business Annual – Price 149.95 US [16% discount]

– GroupSurveys Unlimited Annual – Price 999.95 US [16% discount]

You can find out more info about each account here

(Current customers can upgrade from within their GroupSurveys account, to avail of the discounts.)

3. We’ve also made some minor changes to the layout .. we’ve removed the extra “welcome page” and moved the credits box to the left menu panel where it can always be seen. (Should make it a little easier to navigate).

4. We also added in some Ajax into the system, which now allows you to make some changes such as editing folder & pages names much quicker.

We’re still receiving great feedback from you guys on how to improve the system and we’ll be rolling out as many of the new features as soon as we can over the next few weeks.

Don’t hesitate to leave us a comment with your feedback or get in touch with support@group-surveys.com if you’ve any questions.

Thanks
GroupSurveys Team

One of the neat features of our GroupSurveys tool is that you can use skip logic to ensure that your questions are relevant to each respondent. You might be asking, what the heck is Skip Logic?

Skip logic, or conditional branching as it is sometimes known, allows you to change the course that your respondents take through a survey based on answers they give to certain questions. You do this by creating skip rules. For example, if you were creating a survey, and you were to ask your respondents if they are male or female. You could create some skip rules based on this, that would then direct them to a certain page based on their response.

There are a number of reasons why you should use skip logic. If you have questions that are only related to some of your respondents, then you would not want your other respondents to be presented with these questions, as they will get frustrated when asked to answer questions that do not relate to them. You can also use skip logic to filter out certain respondents. For instance if you only want people who live in California to respond to your survey, then the first question you would ask them is what state they live in, you could then create a skip rule that forces all of the users who did not choose California to end the survey.

In my example below, I created a survey with 4 pages. The first page contains two questions, each with skip logic applied. If respondents are female and 16 years or older, they will be presented with all questions in the survey. If respondents are male under 16, they will only be presented with one question, because we applied skip logic to the initial questions telling the survey engine to skip pages 2 and 3 as they pertain only to females or respondents over 16.

The first skip logic rule that I created was to skip Page 2 (relevant only to respondents over 16 years old) if the respondent’s age is under 16.

The second skip logic rule that I created was to skip Page 3 (relevant only to female respondents) if the respondent is male.

Click here to see the survey in action.