SURVEY PROTECTION redirect your respondent to your website when they submit their response. Here is a list of all of the options under Survey Termination and what they do: Survey Protection provides some control over how people access the survey and how frequently they can access the survey. • Default end of survey message: Respondents will get this message if you have not chosen one of the other • Open Access: When this option is selected, the survey can be taken through the anonymous survey link. The custom messages. The text displayed is, “We thank you for your time spent taking this survey. Your response survey taker does not have to click the unique link from the Email Survey page to access the survey. To limit the has been recorded.” access, change the setting to By Invitation Only. • Redirect to a single response report: Redirect the respondent to a report that displays their responses. The Q-TIP -TIP • By Invitation Only: This is only for use with the unique link you get from the Email Survey page. When this is report they see is similar to the report found under the View Results>Responses page. The respondent is given enabled, the participant must click the unique link to access the survey. the option of exporting the report as a PDF. Q-TIP -TIP Q - T I P • Password Protection: This enables you to set a single password for your survey. Q - T I P Q - T I P An alternative approach is to customize an End of Survey element in the Survey Flow and select Show - T I P Q - T I P Response Summary, which displays a view of the survey questions with their selections in place. This can also be exported to PDF. If you need a unique password for each survey taker, use the Authenticator option in the Survey Flow - T I P (see Survey Flow section in Chapter 5). Q-TIP -TIP • End of survey message from a library: This allows you to create and select your own message to display to • Prevent Ballot-Box Stuffing: This keeps people from taking the survey more than once. Qualtrics uses a browser- respondents. based cookie to mark if someone took the survey. If they attempt to take the survey again, they will be kept out. Q - T I P Q - T I P • HTTP Referer Verification: This enables you to specify a URL users have to come from in order to take the survey. It is useful if your survey link is posted on a particular website (like an internal university or company page) and Insert additional End of Survey elements in the Survey Flow to have multiple messages in place. Use the - T I P you want to make sure the link does not get copied and sent to others. Only those who can access the url you branch logic to control when each displays. specify will be able to take the survey. Q-TIP -TIP • Send a thank you email from a library: Specify a Thank You message for the system to send out to each • Prevent Indexing: This option prevents Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines from being able to index survey taker as their completed response comes in. This only sends to those who have completed the survey. your survey and present it in search results. Typically, this is only an issue for long-term studies where the Q - T I P survey is active for a long time. - P Q T I • This survey does not expire: If this option is selected, there is no set date range for when respondents are able This only works if you email the survey to a panel on the Distribute Survey tab using the unique link - T I P to access the survey. If the survey is active, the link can be accessed. (the default setting). Go to the Email History page to send a one-time Thank You email blast to all who completed the survey. • This survey is valid from: This enables you to specify a date range when respondents can access the survey. These Survey Termination options are also available when customizing an End of Survey element in the Survey Flow. Click the calendar icon or enter in the date directly (YYYY-MM-DD) to specify a date range. Those trying to access the survey before or after the specified range receive a simple message explaining it is currently unavailable. INACTIVE SURVEYS SURVEY TERMINATION Under the Inactive Survey section, you can choose the message that will appear when you deactivate your survey. You can either use the default inactive survey message or create one of your own using the message library. The Survey Termination options are great if you want to show a custom thank you message at the end of your survey or 48 | Chapter 3: Edit Your Survey Chapter 3: Edit Your Survey | 49
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