Online surveys with LimeSurvey

1. Log in

Once we’ve granted you access, you can log in at survey.jku.at/login as usual using your JKU account (‘ak’ or ‘k’ should be lower case).

2. Create survey

To create a new survey, click on ‘create survey’. You will be shown the page ‘create, import or copy a survey’. To create a survey, all you have to do is enter a title and then click on ‘save’ at the top right.

Explanations for various fields:

General settings

• Administrator name: Here, you should enter the name of the main person responsible for the survey. This name will be given as the contact person in invitation emails.

• Administrator email: Here, you should enter the email address for the main person responsible. This will be provided as the response address for all sent emails.

• Email for returns: Any unsuccessful emails will be returned to this address.

• Format:

  • • • • • • • • • • • • Question for question: Each question will be shown on a new page.

                        • Group for group: All questions under one group will be shown on one page.

                        • All on one page: All questions will be shown on a single page.

Text elements

• Title: Title example: ‘Study on Conscious Shopping’.

• Description: Description text example: ‘A study examining shopping behaviour in consumers in terms of ethical and health-related purchase motives’.

Presentation and navigation settings

Here, you can define how your survey will be presented later on. Go through this section in order and choose your desired options. You can also define and change these settings later.

3. Add question group

Click on ‘structure’ at the top left and then on ‘add question group’.

4. Add question

For each question, click on the desired question group and then on ‘add new question to this group’.

• Code: The question code serves to identify the question during the export/evaluation. Consider your question codes carefully. A clear code structure makes evaluation easier and helps to avoid incorrect interpretations.

• Question: Enter your question here precisely. There is a help text field for explanations.

• Type: LimeSurvey offers many question types with matching answer options. Choose the right type for your question under ‘general options’. Examples: yes/no, 5 point selection, matrix, short free text, multiple choice.

  

In addition, conditions can be defined that manage the visibility of questions based on the answers provided. Click on the question and then on the ‘set conditions’ button at the top.

5. Add answers

Click on the question to activate the ‘edit answer options’ button at the top, depending on the question type.

Each answer option comes with an answer code. This plays an important role in further data processing. The answer code may consist of letters and numbers. A lone zero is not permitted.

6. Test survey

You can test the survey at any time. Click on ‘survey preview’ at the top.

7. Activate survey

As soon as the survey is complete and has been tested, you can begin the survey by clicking on ‘activate this survey’. If the symbol isn’t visible in the survey bar, the survey cannot be activated in its current form or you are not under the ‘settings’ tab on the left-hand side.

Once the survey has been activated, no groups, questions or answers may be added or removed. If you need to do so, you must deactivate the survey using the ‘stop’ button .

8. View results

Once answers have been entered, you can view, process, export and delete them. These actions are possible by clicking on ‘answers’ at the left under ‘settings’ > ‘survey menu’ or by clicking on the ‘answers’ button at the top.

The SurveyID can be found in the link after a survey has been selected or in the survey’s title. Swapping these IDs within a URL is a quick way to swap between surveys.

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Log into LimeSurvey and click on the ‘create survey’ button.

Now head to the ‘import’ tab, select the already exported file and click on ‘import survey’.

Any retroactive changes can lead to significant problems with any later exports and some data may be lost / not exported.

When you create an anonymous survey with a participant list, the setting that sends confirmation emails is still active. This can worry some participants and should therefore be deactivated.

The new LimeSurvey also offers survey groups. This feature has been working well since the update in February of 2019. Survey groups created by you are only visible to you and can be deleted by you as long as no surveys have been allocated to them.

If you import survey participants from a CSV file, it’s important that the right encodingis allocated to the file. Otherwise, the system may simply show an error report.

If you have set a start date for your survey, please note that this does not mean that the survey will go live on this date without active involvement from you.