Question Types

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

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.