Online Survey Service Features

The Online Survey Service has many features, many of which are listed below, but to see the features in action see the demonstration survey

1. There are 16 types of questions in three categories
1. Choice
2. Matrix
3. Open Ended

2. There are several ways to display answers for multiple choice questions:
1. Horizontal
2. Vertical
3. Dropdown
4. Matrix

3. HTML can be used in questions, answers, page headers, and titles to do things like:
1. Change text appearance to allow bold or italic characters.
2. Include links to other documents and web sites.
3. Include images as part of the questions.

4. Page conditions can be set to allow for “branching” questions, where answers to one question can control which subsequent questions appear in the survey. 

5. Access to the surveys can be set to:
1. Single response anonymous access (user can update response within a set period of time)
2. Single response anonymous access not updateable
3. Multiple response anonymous access not updateable
4. Manual entry (for entering data from a paper survey)

6. Deploying options
1. URL for an email invitation
2. HTML code to be in a web page

7. Flexibility of survey results.
1. Survey results can be reviewed as soon as the first response has been received. 
2. An analysis report is available through the tool, including response numbers, percentages, and comments.
3. Complete responses from individual participants can be reviewed.
4. Data can be export to Excel or SPSS.

8. Additional features
1. Questions can be required.
2.  Survey can have multiple pages.

3. After a survey is finished the results can be displayed or the user can be given a customized message or the user can be directed to web page.

4. Question library can be created.
5. Survey progress can be displayed.
6. Navigation and cancel buttons can be turned on or off.
7. Surveys can be started from previous surveys.
8. Surveys can have multiple owners.
9. Start and end dates for a survey can be set.