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JD eSurvey presents an extremely intuitive and user-friendly interface offering a simplistic approach to creating, managing, updating, and collecting surveys and survey data.
- Designed to give a streamlined method to the survey workflow.
- Create professional looking surveys within minutes without any help or prior knowledge about the application.
Creating surveys shouldn’t be a chore. JD eSurvey eliminates the tedious work required to produced great looking surveys. From creating a survey page to using advanced features you will know how to operate and navigate JD eSurvey in no time.
- Choose from a wide variety of question types depending on the question being asked.
- The tip box field provides a way of giving additional information on how to answer questions.
- Options allow for surveys to be accessible to the general public or restricted to registered survey participants only.
- Determine if a survey can be submitted numerous times or only once from a single IP address.
- Automatic previews of surveys in the interface allow you to have a glimpse on how they would appear when published and to allow for any mistakes to be corrected or modifications to be made.
- Survey information, such as creation date, status, last update date, completion date, and the names of participants is given for administrative purposes.
- Updating survey information, attributes, and questions can be handled any time during the creation process.
- Survey pages and questions can be arranged in different position orders.
- Survey participants are given the opportunity to review and update their answers to surveys before the final submission.
- View previously completed surveys.
With an assortment of question types to choose from finding an appropriate one for particular questions is not a problem. Question types are separated into three categories: Standard, Matrix, and Other types. Standard question category includes the most commonly used types:
- Use a Yes/No drop down box to receive an answer from a participant that will either be a “Yes” or “No”.
- Short text input fields allow entries containing up to 50 characters.
- Select a long text input type for answers containing up to 150 characters.
- Huge text input provides a text area to enter up to 2000 characters.
- Integer input fields accepts integer values.
- Collect monetary values by using the currency input field.
- Decimal input allows for decimal values to be entered as answers.
- Use the date question type for date responses.
- The single choice drop down type allows a selection to be made from an available list of options.
- Choose multiple options from a list with multiple choice check boxes.
- The dataset type populates a list with options by importing a collection of data, such as a file containing the list of the months in a year.
- Single choice radio buttons displays a group of options where a single selection can be made.
- Use the star rating question type to collect the degree of satisfaction as an answer.
- Just as with star ratings use the smiley faces type to collect satisfactory ratings.
Matrix question types are fundamentally identical to standard questions but may contain multiple elements where each one is defined by a row and column:
- Most of the standard questions are integrated as matrix types.
- Use matrix types for questions requiring a more diverse array of answers.
Other question types present the capability to add multimedia to questions along with receiving files from participants.
- By providing a link to images and videos they will be displayed to participants in conjunction with the question text.
- Allow a file upload option to give participants the ability to submit files as a response, such as Word or PDF documents.
An important aspect of the survey process is collecting and analyzing participants’ responses. JD eSurvey makes it easy for you to view and download survey statistics with just a couple of mouse button clicks.
- View survey statistics and results to extrapolate valuable and useful information about the data.
- Statistical data are represented in both numerical values and visual graphs.
- Export survey data to Excel, comma delimited, and SPSS formats for advanced data analysis.
- Download survey statistics as PDF files for paper printing and record keeping.
- Export surveys as a file to backup and update when necessary and then later import them onto test or production environments.
####Publishing Surveys
Once a survey has been designed it is ready to be filled out by participants. Publishing and sharing your surveys requires no effort. Just click an option to publish and start collecting responses from participants.
- Each published survey is assigned a unique URL that can be provided to participants so they may access them through a web browser.
- Published surveys can be embedded and displayed within web sites.
- The process of filling out surveys is simple, direct, and straightforward.
Use QR Barcodes as an alternative method for publishing surveys.
- A QR code can instantly be obtained for any survey.
- Copy, save, print, and post QR codes for participants to scan with their mobile device to start filling out surveys.
Grant survey participants to fulfill surveys by sending out email invitations. This handsome feature allows you to deliver surveys in bulk to groups of participants. Compared to sending out surveys one-by-one to each participant separately email invitations decreases the time by a significant amount
- Send out survey invitations to multiple users at once via email using comma delimited files.
- Check the number of email invitations sent out along with the number of email invitations opened by recipients.
The logic features supported by JD eSurvey provides many advantages to individuals administering surveys as they allow them to have more control and flexibility on the flow of surveys. Participants also benefit from taking surveys with logic features as they provide a more user-friendly experience. Use the powerful branching logic feature to transport survey participants to different areas in a survey.
- Determine the conditions to be met in order to branch to different pages.
- Participants can be directed to specific pages depending on their answer entries allowing for irrelevant questions to be skipped.
- Apply branching logic to most of the question types, including numerical, date, currency inputs, and all of the option selection questions.
With the randomization feature you do not have to worry about survey participants memorizing surveys. By using this feature your concern for collecting inaccurate survey data is eliminated.
- Determine whether participants are cheating or not taking surveys seriously by randomizing the order of pages and questions.
- Randomize questions and answers to eliminate biased responses to questions based upon the influence of previous question responses.
Piping allows you to create more diverse surveys by extracting and integrating previous responses from questions.
- Piping of answers adds versatility to surveys.
- Use answers from previous questions and incorporate them into question texts in later pages.
- Use templates to display customized survey ending pages, welcome messages, and email invitation notifications.
We all make mistakes from time to time. Ensure participants are entering the correct type of answers by using validation feature so that you may collect more accurate survey data.
- Validation fields safeguards answers to meet minimum and maximum requirements, such as the length of inputs and range of numbers.
- Defining masks allows answers to be constrained to a certain pattern for validity, and an example of a mask is the social security number format.
- Constitute if questions require a response before advancing to the next page.
Being fully ADA 508 compliant individuals with disabilities have the ability to access the application without any discrimination. There is no bias as to who may or may not use JD eSurvey.
Personalize surveys by tweaking the theme colors and adding logos and pictures.
- Add customization by inserting pictures or company logos in surveys.
- Change the color and look of surveys by selecting a theme from an available list.
- Present a completed survey message for participants at the end of surveys.
- Rich text editors allow you to easily add more style and character to template messages, such as adding color and underlining text.
In today’s world where technology is advancing like crazy every single day it is almost impossible to not be involved within it. A technological field that is inevitable to avoid nowadays is that of handheld devices. With JD eSurvey managing and accessing surveys may conveniently take place on your mobile unit.
- Manage surveys and collect survey data by logging into the application from mobile units, such as tablets and smartphones.
- Access surveys from anywhere with a mobile device.
- Based on the mobile unit’s display size and orientation, the user-interface compensates by adjusting its view to appropriately display the content.
Access JD eSurvey in English, Arabic, Spanish, French, and in many more languages.