Basic Steps to do a survey

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If you are the sort that wants to try the system, here is a cookbook.

Blue words are links to pages with more information. Notes will point you to the places you may want to go later.

A. Write your Questions

1. Log in. (Your account is created automatically)
2. You are in your personal survey folder viewing a list of surveys (a blank list if you are new)
3. Click New Button (below the words Personal Survey Folder (HOME) )
4. Title your survey (Respondents will see what you type here.)
5. You are in the Survey Manager (the home) for this survey.
6. Click on Questions button
7. You are now in the (draft) question editor.
8. Look 1/2 way down the page for Add Question (There is more to know about questions (they can have parts) but that is for later.)
9. Choose a Question Type, fill it in, click Save in the lower right. (If you want to see what a question type looks like don't fill it in, just choose "Save", then edit it (pencil tool) or delete it.)

B. When you have entered your questions, return to the survey manager. Your authoring saves automatically as you go.

1. Find the "bread crumbs" near the top of the page they will read SurveyList > [Name of your survey] > Survey Editor
2. Click the name of your survey in the "bread crumbs"
3. In the Survey Manager, click Respondents
4. You are in the Respondent Pool List, click the "Add" button. (A Respondent Pool is any group of people who receive identical response forms; respondent pools enable you to tailor response forms and then analyze each group's answers separately, or all of the groups together.)
5. Title your respondent pool (e.g., "First Pool") and "save" in the lower right.
6. Double click the respondent pool name you just created.
7. In the bottom center of the Respondent Pool Properties click "URL"
8. Copy the URL into a new browser window, open your survey.
9. To test data collection, create another respondent pool (e.g., called "Test") and respond to your own questions.

C. When you have finished taking your survey, close the window,

1. Return to the Survey Manager page (In the "Bread Crumbs" of the Respondent Pool Properties page, click the name of your survey.)
2. Click the Reports button
3. Click Quick Report or Detailed Report
4. If the survey is working well, return to the "Respondents" tab, click the box to the left of the name of your pool (don't open the pool; just click its box).
5. Above the list of respondent pools, there's a row of buttons that begins at the left with "Create" "Copy" and "Delete." Further to the right is a button labeled "Clear." To delete your test data so that your survey is empty and ready for administration, click "Clear."