Question Types

Click on the Questions tab and then the Add question button to start adding questions to the survey.

There are different question types that can be added to a survey:

Quantitative question types

• Radio Button List (single select): questions restrict respondents to a single answer

• Dropdown List (single select): questions restrict respondents to a single answer, but use less physical space on the page

• Check Box List (multi-select): You cannot use the Answer Required checkbox (currently the Answer Required feature requires (or does not require) answers to all the answer fields in the question. With a multi-select question type, a user can answer some, but not all, which makes this invalid.) You cannot calculate statistics on a check box question type

Qualitative question types

• Comment Box

• Date Selector

• Number Box

• File Upload

Special input controls

• Break Question: insert a question on the survey with no answer options. This is often used to create section headings or provide the respondent with necessary information inline.

• Break Page: Inserts a page break into the list of questions

• Terminate Survey: triggers the end of the survey. Surveys do not display text written in a terminate survey question box. To enter text to terminate a survey, the user must first put a break question with desired text then an empty Terminate Survey question.

Points For quantitative question types, points are usually assigned as 0 for incorrect responses, and 1 for correct responses. Likert question types are more likely to use a scale for rating the answers.

Category Categories are used for the purpose of summarizing or grouping output for reports.