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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Creating accessible surveys

Online surveys aims to follow the principles of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. However, accessibility is not just a technical issue. Creating an accessible online survey involves care in…

Features not currently available in online surveys

online surveys. The features not currently available in the latest version of online surveys are: Email alerts on survey completion. Question tagging. Colour thresholds. Respondent username/password reminder emails. Customised URLs….

Sharing a survey with another user

…grant another online surveys user the ability to do so. We recommend that all online surveys users in an Organisation account add at least one other user to their survey…

Known Issues

…are not displayed. This issue also cascades to the data exports from the Analyse page. Refreshing the page will sometimes display the full set of responses. Version affected: Online Surveys…

What is pre-population?

…your survey as an answer to a question. If you want to insert pre-populated information into your survey, you assign what is called a pre-population parameter to a question. The