Powerful, flexible online surveys
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 […]
Posted: 23rd May 2018
Our technical team plans to undertake essential maintenance on Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00 – 19:00 BST. During this window, it is necessary to take Online Surveys offline for a period of time. This work is necessary to improve Online Surveys’ performance and capacity and will allow us to roll out new features. We know […]
Posted: 2nd March 2018
Since the migration of BOS to Jisc in October 2017 we have been embedding the service into Jisc, carrying out essential upgrades, investigating new features and ensuring we continue to deliver business as usual while paving the way for future updates and upgrades. The next stage is to carry out some more visible changes, starting with the service name and […]
Posted: 19th December 2017
After a successful migration, we’re now looking to the future and thinking about how we can improve the service. We’ve listened to your feedback and have increased the default email limit for BOS’s integrated email tool from 1,000 to 5,000 emails. This means that Project and Organisation account users can now send: 5,000 invitation emails […]
Posted: 5th October 2017
The transfer of BOS from the University of Bristol to Jisc has taken place successfully. Teams from both organisations have completed the transfer of BOS accounts and data, carried out the necessary tests, and BOS is back online and available for use at www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk All accounts, surveys and data have been transferred, your BOS service […]
Posted: 7th September 2017
During the winter and spring of 2014/15 we migrated existing accounts from an old version of BOS to the current version of BOS. Part of this change meant that surveys would have new, more personalised, URLs. Old format: http://www.survey.bristol.ac.uk/poppleton/survey-name New format: https://poppleton.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/survey-name To minimise the impact of this change, a redirect was set up from […]