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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Known Issues

This page details known issues with Online Surveys, intended to help you apply workarounds until the issues can be resolved. Display and export of response data Issue resolved This issue…

What is pre-population?

…answers to each pre-populated question), and online surveys inserts the information when your respondents access the survey. You can provide pre-population information to online surveys in one of two ways:…

Amending your user profile

…visible to Admin users of the online surveys account you belong to. Username: this is the username you use to log in to online surveys. By default, your username is…

FAQ for Admin users (Organisation account)

…all of the surveys in the online surveys Organisation account that I administer? No. In an Organisation account, full access to surveys is restricted to the survey author in the…

Multiple choice (single answer) questions

These question types are easy to set up and are the most frequent type of question in online surveys. They allow respondents to pick just one answer from a list…

Editing a launched survey

…Other changes, such as adding new questions or radically changing question text, may make the existing response information confusing or misleading. Online surveys does not keep a log of changes…