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Table of Contents
Creating and Designing the Questionnaire
This chapter describes how to develop an online questionnaire with SoSci Survey.
The first three manuals give you a practical and quick introduction to SoSci Survey. With the further manuals, you deepen your knowledge of working with the software:
- Video Tutorials (Screencast)
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- Introduction: An Online Questionnaire in 5 Minutes (step by step)
- Instructions for Common Jobs
To create questionnaires quickly, there are some tricks for simple questions or, for example, for creating headings in questions. These basic tasks are explained using the example of a classic registration form. - Tips for the Survey Design
There are some principles for structuring and designing a questionnaire in an appealing and professional way. This chapter explains things like the basic structure of a survey or the design of an invitation. - Overview: Explanations in the questionnaire
Explanatory texts may be necessary at various places in the survey project. This chapter explains their uses and implementation.
Questions
Unlike a conventional printed questionnaire, an online questionnaire does not simply consist of questions to which an answer is selected (selection questions/ratings) or written (text inputs). Online questionnaires offer a large variety of question formats or question types. This has the advantage that the questionnaire can be designed in very versatile ways, but it also means that you always have to consider in advance which question type is suitable for the respective purpose. How to create questions is explained in the chapter An Online Questionnaire in 5 Minutes. You will find the different question types in a list with example images on the page Question Types.
- Manage Questions and use as Templates
This chapter explains how questions can be organized in the project. It also explains how to copy questions or even entire survey projects. - Question Types
Overview of the available question types - Functional Elements
Functional elements are created in sections of the questionnaire just like questions. However, they are not questions, but elements that serve to control the flow, to measure, or to store data in the background, without the respondent seeing them as a question. - Communication
- Configuring Questions
- Combined Questions
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Questionnaires
Dynamic Contents
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- Filter questions (question filter) – simple filters
- Filter Questions (PHP Filters) – extended filters
- Combining Multiple Conditions - logical operators
- Conditions with More than 2 Possibilities - 1, 2, or 3
- At Least One Item Selected? - loops
- Filters based on JavaScript – filters on the same page
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Special Features
- Multi-Level Structure (nested questionnaires)
Specific Use Cases
- Timer
