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Online surveys  (formerly BOS)

Powerful, flexible online surveys

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Using piping in your survey

…location. A piping anchor uses the source question label typed in all caps and surrounded by square brackets. E.g. source label = name; anchor = [NAME]. Please note the following…

Creating a customised URL using piping

…window. The HTML tags are inserted around the link text: <a href=”https://xxx.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/survey-name?x1=[BOS_CORE_RECEIPT]&xx”>our follow-up survey</a> The changes are saved by clicking OK. The link text is now underlined and coloured blue….

Accessing benchmarking reports

…by the institution managing the survey or the online surveys team when the benchmarking reports are available. To access a benchmarking report: Locate your benchmarking survey and click Analyse. On…

Why is my survey only open for 30 days?

…the opening and closing dates and change them to dates that are appropriate for your survey. To change your survey’s opening and closing dates: Click on Distribute, then Distribution settings….

What is a page break?

…a note and a question). A page break cannot be removed. If you have added a page break to your survey that you wish to remove, the only way to…