FEATURES OF NETQ INTERNET SURVEYS
Creating and changing | |
| Questions and answers | Easily create all types and combinations of question together with the possible answers via the user-friendly interface |
| Image and sound | Image material (including hotspots as required), video films and sound bites also possible in questions or as a possible answer |
| Randomising | Possible answers can be presented in random order |
| Ranking and total | The respondent can also indicate a sequence (1 to x) or total (e.g. 100 |
| Explanation and tips | Give respondents instructions or display warnings using text blocks or mouse-over texts before, during and after questions and answers |
| Check | Compulsory answering is possible and thorough validation, including plausibility checks, is available to prevent respondents making incorrect entries |
| Basing | It is possible to repeatedly base subsequent questions and answers on answers to earlier questions |
| Skips and routing | Multi-optional routing is possible with skips, piping and extensive filtering on the basis of random (sets of) conditions or quotas |
| Example presentation | A preview including layout can be displayed per question, per block of questions or for the entire questionnaire |
| Multilingual | A questionnaire can be completed in 5 languages as standard – German, English, French, Italian and Dutch in 1 dataset - with the option to add any number of other languages |
Design and layout | |
| Create in housestyle | Questionnaires can be displayed in the desired house style using templates |
| WYSIWYG editing | All texts and images in the questionnaire can be added manually or additionally processed with the WYSIWYG editor or the HTML editor |
| User-friendliness for respondent | To avoid the need for scrolling, the questionnaire layout is fully adjustable, including question widths and heights, line spacing and page breaks |
| Image optimisation per medium | The display of the questionnaire is automatically optimised to the respective fieldwork medium, when being completed on a monitor, PDA or TabletPC |
Testing and publishing | |
| Test link | Online questionnaires can be tested via a test link – also by a test panel, where necessary – prior to final publication. Questionnaires intended for completion over the telephone, on a PDA or TabletPC also have their own test routine |
| Scheduled publication | The start date and time and end of publication can be automatically scheduled on the basis of the date and time or the maximum number of respondents |
| Printed versions | The researcher can print a PDF version of the questionnaire, including a presentation of the structure and coding, and respondents can, if they wish, print their answers through their web browser or receive them by e-mail in PDF format |
| Login | It is possible to grant respondents exclusive access with an automatically generated user name/password combination |
| Progress indicator | Respondents can be shown a progress indicator |
| Session breaks | Respondents can fill in questionnaires in several sessions if they wish |
| Anonymous or multiple completion | A respondent may fill in questionnaires several time – not with a unique link – or anonymously |
Processing and managing | |
| Dragging and dropping | Drag & drop functions allow (blocks of) questions and texts to be copied quickly, question sequences to be modified and panels combined |
| Copying from the MS Office clipboard | The possible answers can be copied from MS Word or MS Excel using the clipboard |
| Importing from MS Word | Entire questionnaires can be imported directly from MS Word |
| Project overviews | The explorer function allows questionnaires and related e-mails and panels to be clearly mapped for research projects |
| Library | Special questions, questionnaire templates, e-mails and reports, as well as images, video and sound can be managed and accessed through the library |
| Exchanging questionnaires | Entire questionnaires can be copied from other external users once their approval has been obtained |
| Pausing or closing and archiving | Once the fieldwork is complete, the questionnaire can be taken offline - temporarily, if necessary - and ultimately stored in the archive |