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Online surveys Security

Security management Jisc operates an Information Security Management System (ISMS) and many of the processes and policies used to operate online surveys, and by Jisc staff, are part of the…

Piping

This FAQ provides general information about piping in online surveys. We recommend you read this page in its entirety before using piping in online surveys for the first time. For…

Can questions be made compulsory?

Yes. To make a question compulsory: Create a new question, or edit an existing question. Click on Advanced options. In the Optionality & dependency section, choose Required. Click Add question…

Can I recover a deleted item?

Deleted items within surveys If you delete an item from your survey – e.g. a question, note or page – the item cannot be recovered and there is no ‘Undo’…

Using piping in your survey

If you have not used piping in your survey before, please read our FAQ on piping first. Piping inserts answers from previous questions into upcoming questions, notes, page titles and…

Filtering using multiple criteria

Using the filter Editor, you can filter based on multiple criteria by adding several rows of conditions. For example, you can define a group of respondents who have given a…