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General Survey Options

About General Survey Options

The General section contains survey options related to the survey’s the title and description displayed in search results, question numbering, and Expert Review.

Display Name and Survey Description

Qtip: In the old survey editor, these options are called the survey title and meta description, and appear in the Survey Experience section.

Qtip: The survey’s display name and description can be translated.

In the results of any web search you receive a list of related pages, each with a title and a short description. Similarly, when you post on a social media site such as Facebook, you will see these displayed as a short header and a summary of the link in your post.

The title of your survey as it appears in web results and on social media posts is the display name, and the description that accompanies this name is the survey description. You can change these settings in survey 0ptions in the fields displayed below.

This display name is also displayed as the browser tab title.

The logo you see with the meta description is called an open graph image. It comes from the logo in your survey theme.

Qtip: Interested in changing the open graph image? It’s included when you create your own theme. You can also request to modify an old theme of yours. See the Branded Themes page on how to submit a theme request.

Qtip: By default, your survey will not be indexed by search engines. However, you can disable this in the Security section of the survey options.

Base Language

This is where you can set the language your project is written in. For more information, see Base Language. For more on translation in general, see Translate Survey.

Question Numbers

To the left of each question you will see the question number, which you can use to help identify questions when exporting your survey data and reference questions while working on a survey with others.

By default, these question numbers are not displayed to your respondents, but you can display them to respondents by enabling Question numbers in your survey options.

Question numbers are often turned on in the testing stage of your survey so those reviewing it can give more specific feedback on which questions they would like to see tweaked.

Qtip: To change any question number, simply click on it in the survey editor and type a new number or name.

You can also renumber many questions at once.

Qtip: Consider using a progress bar rather than question numbers if you wish to give the participant a sense of how far they have come in the survey. The progress bar will fill up as the percentage of the survey completed increases, which can be more meaningful than a question number if the respondent has no idea how many questions are ahead.

Expert Review

Expert review is a digital reviewer for your surveys. It helps a researcher ensure that their surveys collect data of the highest quality. Use this setting to enable or disable this feature. It is enabled by default.