Survey.acomp Quick Start

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Contents 1 Purpose 2 Prerequisites 3 Videos 4 Creating A Survey 4.1 My Surveys 4.2 Naming the Survey 5 Content 5.1 Add/Delete Questions 6 Design 7 Exit Page 7.1 Edit Exit Page 8 Start/Stop 9 Security/Notification 9.1 Change e-mail notification 9.2 Add/Remove Administrators 9.3 Edit Entry Restrictions 9.3.1 Public (no authentication required) 9.3.2 Shared password 9.3.3 Any University of South Florida NetID & password 9.3.4 Survey Members 10 Results

[edit] Purpose

This document is meant to be a guide to using [Survey.acomp]. Faculty and Graduate students may use this tool to create, modify, and administer surveys to anybody anonymously. Afterwards, all data can be downloaded to a format that is easily recognized by any spreadsheet or statistics processing program.

[edit] Prerequisites

You must have a [USF NetID] to [register] to use Survey.acomp.

[edit] Videos

Please visit the follow links for an [intro to Survey.acomp] and [how to export results].

[edit] Creating A Survey

[edit] My Surveys

When you sign in you will be greeted by the My Surveys area. To create a new survey click .

For more information about the My Surveys page, view the entry Survey.acomp: My Surveys.

[edit] Naming the Survey

The next step is to give this survey a name. This name will not be shown to participants in your survey. It is only meant to be a reference for you. Enter the survey name a click .

[edit] Content

To get your survey up and running, you need to add questions. You may add questions under Edit Entry Form link. Click the Edit Entry Form link to continue.

[edit] Add/Delete Questions

To add a question click . Then select the question type. Go here for more information about question types.

You may also remove questions by clicking the delete link next to the question in the Edit Entry Form page.

[edit] Design

You can edit the appearance of a survey easily using the many options strewn throughout the tool. For more detail about design, please go here.

[edit] Exit Page

Now that you have content and have designed it exactly how you want it, you need to look at what your participants will see. The Edit Exit Page link in the main survey menu will show you this page.

Click Edit Exit Page to view and edit the page that participants will see.

[edit] Edit Exit Page

To edit the exit page click .

Either plan text or HTML can be entered, ensure that correct one is selected.

See XHTML:_Introduction to see more about HTML.

Once the text has been entered click .

The layout, font, and colors for the exit page can be edited here by clicking . For more information regarding this go here.

[edit] Start/Stop

To make the survey available go to the survey's page and click .

The web address that appears is the location of the survey.

To make the survey unavailable click .

This will close the survey and disallow any further entries.

[edit] Security/Notification

[edit] Change e-mail notification

Here you can choose to receive an email everytime a survey is completed. To receive an email entered the e-mail address you want to results sent to and click OK .

The subject of the e-mail will be 'new entry for survey "survey name"'. The e-mail will contain a link to view the results of the specific survey. Only one e-mail address can receive the surveys. It can be a USF or non USF e-mail address.

[edit] Add/Remove Administrators

Here you can add or remove administrators. To add an administrators enter there NetID and click Add.

To remove an administrator click across from their name.

When finished click .

Only persons with a USF NetID will be able to be administrators.

[edit] Edit Entry Restrictions

Here you can set restrictions on who can access the survey.

[edit] Public (no authentication required)

If this is selected any person will be able to complete the survey.

[edit] Shared password

Here you can create a password that will be required to complete the survey.

[edit] Any University of South Florida NetID & password

This requires the person to have a USF NetID and passord. Any person with an USF NetID and password will be able to complete the survey.

[edit] Survey Members

Here you can set who can access the survey. They must have a USF NetID and password.

To add members click . Enter their NetID and click . Multiple NetIDs can be added at one time, enter each NetID on a seperate line.

To delete a member select their name and click . To delete multiple members use Ctrl+left mouse click, or Shift+left mouse click if the members are together.

When all members to be deleted have been selected click .

[edit] Results

Any time during the survey you can edit the access restrictions, view the results, delete results, and export the results. For more about results, please go here.