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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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What is a "Token"?

…needing to enter a username/password combination. A personalised URL looks like this: https://accountname.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/surveyname?token=xxxxxxxx If you leave the token field blank when providing respondent data, online surveys will generate random, non-guessable…

Providing limited access to results data

If you are a member of an Organisation account, online surveys allows you to provide limited access to results data to other users. This may be necessary or desirable where…

Copying charts from the Analysis Summary

…dynamic charts into pasteable images: Ensure your browser’s bookmarks/favourites bar is displayed. Drag the bookmarklet (grey box) labelled online surveys charts to images (found below these instructions), to your bookmarks/favourites…

Deleting surveys

…to be purged from online surveys. This action cannot be undone and a survey cannot be recovered once it has been permanently deleted. To delete one survey at a time:…

Pre-population – Constraints and considerations

…Some of these are listed below: Constraints Only certain question types can be used for pre-population Pre-population parameters can only be assigned to: Free text questions. Date/time questions. Multiple choice…