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Attention: This page describes functionality that is only available to the following Employee Experience projects: Engagement and Frequent Pulse projects.

About Qualtrics Assist (EX)

Qualtrics Assist in a dashboard

Qualtrics Assist is a dashboard assistant that uses artificial intelligence to guide managers, HR analysts, and company leaders through every stage of results analysis. Using this tool, you can access real-time results from your EX data, quickly understand qualitative and quantitative insights, and get answers to your data-related questions. Qualtrics Assist can also help you identify priority areas and develop actionable plans to improve your team’s experiences. With Qualtrics Assist, you can simplify data analysis, uncover critical insights, and make informed decisions faster.

Attention: Qualtrics Assist is not supported if the fieldset has more than 100 open text fields or 2 million responses.
Qtip: While we have guardrails in place and are continually refining our products, artificial intelligence may at times generate output that is inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. Prior to using any output from Qualtrics’ AI features, you must review the output for accuracy and ensure that it is suitable for your use case. Output from Qualtrics’ AI features is not a substitute for human review or professional guidance.

Setting Up Qualtrics Assist

Qtip: Your Brand Administrator must enable the Qualtrics Assist for EX Dashboards permission before you can set up Qualtrics Assist.
  1. Navigate to your EX dashboard.
    Settings in dashboard
  2. Go to the dashboard settings.
  3. Select the Dashboard AI section on the left.
    Dashboard AI settings, the Qualtrics Assist option is highlighted
  4. Click the switch next to Enable all dashboard generative AI features by default to enable that setting.
  5. Select Qualtrics Assist.
  6. Click Done.
  7. Navigate to the Roles section in the Participants tab of your EX project.
    Roles permissions, the Use Qualtrics Assist permission is enabled
  8. Select a role, or create a new one.
  9. Under the dashboard permissions for your dashboard, turn on Use Qualtrics Assist AI Chat.
Qtip: All users assigned to a role with the Use Qualtrics Assist AI Chat dashboard permission enabled will have access to Qualtrics Assist.

Configuring Your Dashboard For Qualtrics Assist

When building your dashboard, several widgets will present your EX results in the best structure, which will help you get the most out of Qualtrics Assist. We recommend including these widgets anywhere in the dashboard:

  • Engagement Headlines: The most robust and reliable way to identify key strength and opportunity areas across your data.
  • Question List: Provides data on the top drivers for all key outcome metrics.
  • Scorecard: Displays all questions by category alongside critical comparison data. This allows Qualtrics Assist to answer questions about trending scores or differences in benchmarks.
  • Heat Map: Provides data across different demographic groups or organizations. This helps understand performance and other insights across employee groups.
  • Response Ticker: Contains all responses to open comment questions, which allows Qualtrics Assist to identify key themes and quotes in qualitative data.
Qtip: To view a list of the widgets that can be used by Qualtrics Assist, see Compatible Widgets. Deprecated widgets are not compatible with Qualtrics Assist.

Using Qualtrics Assist

When you are using a dashboard with Qualtrics Assist enabled, you’ll see the icon in the lower-right corner.

Qtip: Qualtrics Assist analyzes data from all pages in your dashboard to provide insight. Qualtrics Assist does not support action planning pages, and cannot answer questions related to action plans.
  1. Click on the Qualtrics Assist icon.
  2. Type a question into the textbox on the right. Alternatively, select a prompt.
    Qualtrics Assist elements highlighted

    Qtip: The information available to Qualtrics Assist depends on the filters set on your dashboard and the dashboard permissions of your role. To ensure you can search effectively, adjust your filters before asking a question.
  3. Click the send icon.
    Qtip: Depending on how many people are using Qualtrics Assist, it may take up to a minute to receive a response.
  4. To delete your conversation and start over, click the reset icon.
  5. To close the Qualtrics Assist window, click the X in the upper-right corner.

DEFAULT PROMPTS

There are 5 default prompts you can use to analyze your data. These prompts are helpful for navigating and exploring the information in your dashboard. Click on a prompt to get started.

default prompts in qualtrics assist

  1. Strengths: Delivers engagement areas with good performance.
  2. Growth opportunities: Explores engagement areas with poor performance and provides opportunities for improvement.
  3. Engagement score: Provides an analysis of the team’s engagement score.
  4. Engagement drivers: Delivers the key drivers of engagement.
  5. Recommended actions: Provides 3 suggested actions that can address opportunities and improve engagement.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

You can ask Qualtrics Assist any question about data in your dashboard, but the responses will depend on your data and the types of widgets you have configured. Here are some common examples of questions you can ask:

Qtip: Qualtrics Assist can only analyze data that is visible in the dashboard. Ensure that your questions correspond to the information displayed on your dashboard for accurate analysis.
  • Summarize your results:
    • “What are my team’s strengths?”
    • “Provide me a summary of the team’s results.”
    • “What are the most discussed topics from the open comments questions?”
  • Key drivers:
  • Score recall:
    • “How do team members feel about their manager?”
    • “How effectively is the team working together?”
  • Recommended actions:
    • “Based on my areas of opportunity, what action items can I take to improve the experience of my team?”

Compatible Widgets

Only data from compatible widgets can be analyzed by Qualtrics Assist:

Attention: Deprecated widgets are not compatible with Qualtrics Assist.

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