Websurvey@UW

WebSurvey@UW Features

With WebSurvey@UW’s user-friendly interface, you can customize your web survey to meet your needs. Add a logo, change the colors, define response parameters, and more. Following is a list of the features that you can use to make your survey your own. For a more detailed description of any of the features, please download the User Manual.

Survey Look and Feel

Ability to specify HTML for header and footer
Create unlimited, advanced look and feel templates
Ability to add logos to any survey
Ability to specify font family, weight size, and color for all survey text
Ability to specify all colors displayed on any survey
Ability to optionally display a border on each survey
Ability to set buttons or text for survey navigation
Ability to specify survey alignment within a browser

Questions

14 standard question types
7 advanced question types (including matrix, constant sum, ranking, and more)
3 hidden field question types (querystring, session, and cookie)
Answer piping (including prior answers in the text of a question)
Ability to optionally display answers in random order
Optionally require an answer for any question
Ability to specify a default value for any question
Ability to specify minimum and maximum answer values
Require valid email address format for text questions
Ability to set the maximum number of characters that can be entered for each question
Ability to select from predefined sets of answers for many question types
Ability to specify column widths and layout for matrix questions

Question Types

Matrix - One Answer per Row (Option Buttons)
Matrix - Multiple Answers per Row (Checkboxes)
Matrix - Multiple Answers per Row (Textboxes)
Matrix - Rating Scale (Numeric)
Constant Sum
Ranking
Open Ended - One or More Lines
Date
Heading
Horizontal Rule – HR
HTML
Image
Message
Multiple Answers – Checkboxes
Number
One Answer - Drop Down
One Answer - Option Buttons
Open Ended - Comments Box
Open Ended - One Line
True/False
Yes/No

Page Conditions – Branching

Ability to set page conditions on each page
Assign multiple conditions per page
Ten distinct logical operators for creating page conditions
Group conditions to create powerful AND/OR logic

Page Condition Operators

Greater Than
Less Than
Greater Than or Equal To
Less Than or Equal To
Equals
Not Equal
Contains
Does Not Contain
Provided an Answer
Did Not Provide an Answer

Survey Completion Actions

Specify any action or message when a user completes a survey
Display a custom message upon survey completion
Redirect to any URL upon survey completion
Display reports upon survey completion
Close the browser upon survey completion (for pop-up windows)
Ability to email each response when a survey is completed

Survey Deployment

Standard functionality for sending email invitations
Advanced, robust functionality for sending email invitations
Create and manage unlimited email lists
Advanced email address list management
Ability to send email messages to both email lists and registered users
Ability to send follow-up emails to recipients of an email message based on response status
Ability to export email lists
Ability to view and track response history to all sent email messages
Ability to send email messages to a filtered subset of any email list
Ability for users to click on a link to decline a survey invitation
Ability to send email invitations in standard text format
Ability to send email invitations in HTML format
Easily create an email link for any survey
Cut and paste option for web page links for any survey
Cut and paste option for popup survey link for any survey

Security

Ability to grant survey ownership to other users
Optionally allow anonymous users to take a survey
Specify whether or not each response is updateable
Require login before taking survey
Option for single or multiple responses per user
3 levels of report security
Option for each survey to make results public
Option for each survey to make results semi-private
Option for each survey to limit reports to survey owner(s)

Reporting

Ability to filter report results based on date ranges
Robust functionality for sharing results via email to any number of email addresses
Ability to filter report results based on answers to questions
Ability filter report results based on user attributes
CSV/Excel data export in raw data format
CSV/Excel data export with individual user responses on each row
CSV/Excel data export in an SPSS compliant format – using SPSS version 13
Email list information is displayed on detail report for responses to email messages
Scored surveys
All hidden field data is displayed on detail report
Optionally highlight a user’s own responses on the overview report
Role-based security for viewing reports
Owners can modify any response
Questions can be given aliases for more concise reporting
Graphical reporting with bar graphs
Ability to filter reports to display entire survey, a single page, or a single question
Reports display the number or respondents that skipped each question
Summary report of all responses
Summary list of all individual responses
Ability to view all individual responses
Ability to delete any individual survey response

User Management

Ability to create unlimited users
Ability to create, modify, and delete users
Ability to set security levels for all users
Ability for each user to modify their account information

Basic Survey Administration

Ability to create surveys by copying existing surveys
Ability to copy entire individual pages within a survey
Ability to create questions by copying existing questions from the same survey
Ability to create questions by copying existing questions from any survey you own
Specify the title for each survey
Ability to add titles to each page on a survey
Specify start and end dates
Unlimited number of questions per survey
Unlimited number of answers per question
Option for single-page or multiple-page surveys
Ability to close and open surveys anytime

Advanced Survey Administration

Unlimited question libraries for reusable questions
Optionally display page numbers at the top of each page
Ability to move items to any other location within a survey
Ability to move entire pages to any other location within a survey
Display progress using a customizable progress bar
Display progress in terms of total page (e.g. page 3 of 4)
Option to display or hide the “Back” button on each survey
Ability to specify the action to take when the user clicks the “Cancel” button in a survey
Ability to extract querystring data and associate with a survey response
Ability to extract cookie data and associate with a survey response
Ability to extract session data and associate with a survey response
Ability to number questions per page or per survey
Ability to limit the number of responses per use
Ability to limit the number of responses per survey
Specify the number of days for updating responses
Ability to assign an admin email for each survey