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Posted: 8th October 2018
We have introduced a new way to analyse Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers) questions. There will now be two different chart types to choose from. New default chart: “Bar chart (multi answer)” As a default, the charts displayed for your MCMA questions will display the percentage of respondents who selected each answer option. For instance, in […]
Posted: 5th October 2018
It has been exactly one year since Online Surveys – then BOS – moved here to Jisc. We’ve been extremely busy in that time, bedding-in and making sure our users continue to experience a great level of service. We’ve also managed to begin introducing new functionality in that time and we have more plans to […]
Posted: 12th September 2018
We plan to make some changes on Tuesday afternoon that will require our technical team to take Online Surveys offline for a short period during a window of 17:00 – 18:00 BST. While Online Surveys is offline, both users and survey participants will be shown our maintenance message. Why is Online Surveys being taken offline? […]
Posted: 2nd August 2018
Some users have fed back that they are confused by the need to have a minimum of two pages in a survey, and why the final page cannot contain any questions. Because of the number of queries this has generated, we have taken steps to make things clearer and more intuitive for users. Now, when […]
Posted: 26th June 2018
Users will now receive a Dashboard notification message when a survey is shared with them by another user. We hope this will help users better manage their surveys. These messages will remain for two weeks after the survey is shared, but can be dismissed from your Dashboard. Be a part of our community […]
Posted: 25th June 2018
We’re continuing to make enhancements to Online Surveys based on feedback from our user community. Here’s a couple of changes we’ve made this week: Bulk permissions If you’re an Organisation account user, you can now add users to your Survey Permissions page in bulk and apply permissions for multiple users at once. To add multiple […]
Posted: 15th June 2018
We’ve made some changes to Online Surveys this week. Most of these changes were to better help our support team serve our users, but we have implemented a couple of noticeable changes too: We’re now Online Surveys You might notice that references to BOS have now been removed from the application. We should now consistently […]
Posted: 7th June 2018
UPDATE: This planned maintenance was postponed from Wednesday 13 June. We plan to make some changes on Thursday morning that will require our technical team to take Online Surveys offline for a period between 08:00 – 09:00 BST. This means that Online Surveys will not be accessible by users or respondents. A maintenance message will […]
Posted: 31st May 2018
UPDATE: This issue has now been resolved. Our technical team is currently investigating a problem with how PDFs are being rendered. While we look to find a solution. Please use this workaround: Open Online Surveys (BOS) in Google Chrome. On the Analysis Summary page, press CTRL+P. In the Print screen, change the Destination from your […]
Posted: 24th May 2018
Jisc takes its data protection responsibilities seriously. On the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) we have a GDPR project team delivering a detailed project plan to implement GDPR for Jisc. We have recently been audited and the auditor was impressed at our approach (using the ICO 12 steps as our basic approach). We are also […]