Create questions in a Survey¶

Requirements

This tutorial requires the installation of the following applications/modules:

Viindoo Survey

Create a Survey question¶

To create a question in a survey, follows these steps:

Go to Surveys, at the Surveys view, choose an existing survey or create a new one, navigate to the Questions tab, click on Add a section to set up a section.

Create a question by clicking on Add a question.

The way you create a question for each “Question type” is different. In this article, we will focus on how to create the Multiple choice question type:

Enter a question in the Question field.
Choose a Question Type.
Enter answers into the answers list.
Mark at Correct to choose the correct answer.
Enter the score that participants will receive when choosing this answer at Score.
Click on Upload your file to import image for this answer.
Add the additional description for the question (if necessary) at the Description tab. This content will appear below the question.
Set up options for this question.
Click on Save & Close.

Note

To score a question, you need to set up the scoring feature for the survey. You can refer at How to create and manage online surveys.

Example: After creating question What is CPU? belongs to section Employee capacity test, the survey view will be displayed as below:

When starting the survey, question view will be displayed as below:

Question settings¶

Question Types¶

When creating a question, the view will be displayed with these question types:

Multiple choice: only one answer: Allow users to choose only one answer.

Multiple choice: multiple answers allowed: Allow users to choose multiple answers.

Multiple Lines Text Box: Allow users to enter a paragraph.

Single Line Text Box: Allow users to enter a line.

Numerical Value: Allow users to enter numbers only.

Date: Allow users to enter a date.

Datetime: Allow users to enter the date and time.

Matrix: Set up a matrix question with multiple questions and answers.

When choosing a question type, a preview screen of this type will appear to show you how this question will be displayed when starting a survey.

Question Options¶

At the create questions view, choose Options tab. This tab provides different settings depending on Question Type was chosen:

Answers:

Shows Comments Field: Allow users to enter a comment.

Comment Message: Enter a suggestion for the comments field.

Comment is an answer: Allow comments to be an option. When the user chooses this option, they can comment.

Validate entry: When activating, you can set conditions for the answer.

Minimum: Set up the minimum value for the answer.

Maximum: Set up the maximum value for the answer.

Validation Error message: Displayed messages when the users enter an invalid answer.

Matrix Type: Allow to choose one choice or multiple choices per row (Features for Matrix type).

Placeholder: Displayed the hint before participants enter the answer.

Layout:

Conditional Display: When activating, this question is only displayed when the previous one has been answered.

Triggering Question: Question containing the triggering answer to display the current question.

Triggering Answer: Choose an answer to activate this question.

Constraints:

Mandatory Answer: Users are not allowed to complete the survey when the answers have not been selected.

Error message: Display messages when the users have not answered this question.

Live Sessions:

Question Time Limit: Activate this feature if you want to set up the time limit for each question. After you check the box to activate, the time section will appear so you can enter the time limit (e.g. 10 seconds). This feature is only supported for live sessions.