Creating surveys with Lime Survey

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Creating surveys with Lime Survey Instructions for laboratory course

PREPARATION 1.

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Signing up

Go to http://www.limeservice.com and click the Click here to sign up button

Click the Your account link and go to Admin URL

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On the following screen fill your sign up data and click Register.

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Log in to your account with same data as before

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Creating a survey

When logged in, click an icon with a + sign to create a survey

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Notice thay clicking the lime icon with a + sign allows more text editing options.

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Once done, click Save survey button

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Browse through the available options and fill the neccessary info.

Be sure to check other tabs in survey configuration - next to General are quite a few more.

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Adding question groups and questions

Use the icon with a + sign next to group dropdown list to add a new (first) group of questions

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Fill the neccessary data

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Repeat the above steps to create at least 2 groups, 6 different questions, and at least 4 different question types. Please include questions with defined answers, like List (radio), Multiple options etc. With such questions you will need to add answers after creting the question.

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In the same manner, add questions

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Choose the question type from the dropdow list.

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Creating a new survey template

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Middle-click on Test this survey to open it in a new tab (in background - You’ll need it later)

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Click the Template Editor button

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On the next page, click copy template.

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Choose an identifiable name for the template. It might be your name, your grade book number etc. It needs to have a name that will easily distinguish your template from other.

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On the next screen, choose to edit templace.css

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You can change the previewed page by choosing an adequate item from a dropdown list Screen

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Editing survey styles

Go to your survey (opened in 4.1), right click on web page and choose View HTML Source

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Mind that in the beginning of the css file is the part called Reset CSS - please do not change it, it is there for standarization purposes only

Try to find classes and/or IDs of elements you would like to format (change colors, fonts etc)

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Classes that might be of most interest for you include:

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CSS properties of the biggest interest for you are: border: 3px solid black;

body.default - changes whole page (mosty for background) .outerframe - changes the main wrapper (in which all other elements are)

background-color: #444444; font-size: 14px; color: white; (font color)

h1 - main header (Title) font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Sans-serif; .group-name .group-description .questiontext

padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; (from top to right. defines inner space from content) margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px (from top to right, defines outer space from object)

.asterisk - the star (*) for required questions .questionhelp

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Change at least 4 classes/IDs in the css file. Please argument each change in the report by saying why you think that such a change might incease the usability of the survey

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Applying your template to the survey

Go back to your survey administration

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Choose Edit Survey settings and go to the Presentation & Navigation tab.

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Click the small green play button to activate your survey.

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Choose your survey from the dropdown list on the right.

Choose your template from the dropdown list and change the option List survey publicly to Yes. You may want to change the format to All in one to make the survey easier to fill,

Provide a link to Your study on the class chat. Conducting the survey and analysing the results is OPTIONAL HOMEWORK and will strongly increase your grade. You have two weeks to figure out where the results are, what are the ways to analise them, and to send your additional report. Still, it is your decision to make whether to do the data analysis or no. Before sending your report, please check whether your survey works or no.

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This is a draft of how your report for the task might look like. Your Name, Grade Book number, Date and time of classes Your survey: Describe the purpose (topic) of your survey in a few sentences.

This survey consisted of 5 questions, which were: GROUP I 1. Question A (open question) 2. Question B (with answers a, b, c)

Write why you’ve chosen such questions, how each contributes to the topic etc.

GROUP II 3. Question C (with answers c, d, e) 4. Question D (open question) 5. Question E (open question)

a link to my survey: http://subdomain.limeservice.com/(...)

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Changes in CSS

1. I have changed the way class .group-name is defined, the code is: .group-name { (...) } This change enhances the usability of the survey, because (...)

2. I have changed the way class .outerframe is defined, the code is: .outerframe { (...) } This change enhances the usability of the survey, because (...)

3. I have changed the way h1 is defined, the code is: h1 { (...) } This change enhances the usability of the survey, because (...)

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