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Qualtrics Survey System

Using the Qualtrics Survey System: An Overview

UW-Eau Claire’s Qualtrics Survey System is an application that provides the tools you need to create, administer and analyze data from surveys and polls. This document provides an overview of the steps involved and links to information that will be helpful at each point.This document contains information on:

return to topPlanning Your Survey or Poll

Doing some planning up front will make creating the online survey or poll easier and help you to better achieve your research or study’s goals. If at all possible, answer these questions before starting.

return to top Online Surveys

Qualtrics has options for creating, testing, distributing, reviewing, and analyzing online surveys. Use the following information to navigate through the survey creation and review process.

Creating Surveys

Qualtrics has a number of features that help you create the look and flow, and custom options on your surveys. You can also review your survey by using spell check and preview your survey before distributing it to recipients.

  1. Experiment with Qualtrics' three methods for creating surveys, Quick Survey Builder, Survey Builder Wizard and Survey Library to find one that fits your learning style.
    HINT: Quick Survey Builder is the recommended method for creating new surveys.

  2. Use Look and Feel to coordinate the layout, fonts, and color scheme of your survey

  3. Set Survey Options for your survey (e.g., type of access)

  4. Use Survey Flow to review and modify the order of the questions

  5. Click Spell Check at any time to review the spelling in all of the survey questions

  6. Use Preview Survey to test the survey

  7. Launch your survey and distribute it to users through a website or email

Verifying Surveys

Test your survey to ensure recipients will be able to take your survey in the way that you intended (e.g., skip logic). In this way, you will also be able to verify the type and format of the data.

  1. Test the survey by sharing the URL and getting feedback on the questions

  2. Review the responses by looking at the results, using cross tabulations, downloading, and exporting the data

  3. Make necessary edits to the survey

Distributing Surveys

Qualtrics has the ability to distribute surveys through email, or by embedding or creating a pop up survey on a website.

  1. Clear the test responses

  2. Create a Panel and distribute your survey through a website or by email invitations

Collecting and Analyzing Survey Data

View your results to create reports, analyze information, and export your survey data.

  1. Close the survey at the appropriate time

  2. Analyze the results

  3. Delete the survey after saving all appropriate files

return to topOnline Polls

Qualtrics can be used to create online polls for publication on a website. Use the following information to help create and post a poll using Qualtrics.

Creating Polls

Qualtrics has a number of features that help you create the look and flow, and custom options on your polls. After creating a poll, you can upload it to a website.

  1. Create a poll

  2. Use Look and Feel to coordinate the layout, fonts, and color scheme of your poll

  3. Set Survey Options for your survey (e.g., type of access)

  4. Add the poll to a website

Posting and Verifying Polls

Test your poll to ensure recipients will be able to access your question and vote.

  1. Test the poll by embedding it in your website and getting feedback on the question and response options

  2. Make necessary edits to the poll

Collecting Poll Data

Review your results to analyze responses.

  1. Close the poll at the appropriate time

  2. View poll results

  3. Delete the poll after saving all appropriate files

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