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General Survey Options

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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.

the general section of survey options

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.

A Qualtrics link posted to Facebook

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.

Fields described

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

Name of a survey on a browser tab

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

A Qualtrics survey complete with custom logo posted to Facebook

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 toggle

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.

Question number, e.g., Q2, highlighted in upper-left of a question

You can also renumber many questions at once.

Auto number questions is the first option when you open the tools dropdown along the top of the survey builder

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.

Expert review toggle

See Expert Review Functionality for more details.

Qtip: Expert review can also be accessed by using the button in the upper-right of the Survey tab, as shown below:
Button to open expert review up in the corner of the survey builder, above where you'd edit questions and blocks

Survey Options in Different Project Types

Survey options are available in many different types of projects. The options described on this page are available in:

There are a few other projects that have access to survey options, but with unique functionality to keep in mind.

 

 

FAQs

  1. Open the Survey Options.
  2. Click on the Responses tab.
  3. Toggle the Back Button to the "on" position.
Note that certain features disable the back button. See this page for details.
You can insert a progress bar to indicate how far along the participant is in the survey.
The Translate Survey feature allows you to add multiple languages to a single survey. Using contact lists, you have the ability to set the language each respondent will see the survey appear in. Because there is just 1 survey containing all of the translations, all of the results will appear in the same data set.
After respondents start a survey, they have a certain amount of time allotted for them to complete the survey, regardless of the survey’s activation status or expiration dates. How much time the respondent has is determined by the Incomplete Survey Responses setting, found at the bottom of the Survey Options in the Survey tab. If the respondent has not completed the survey and the allotted amount of time passes, the survey will automatically close and record as a partial response.

For more information regarding Incomplete Survey Responses, visit the Partial Completion support page.
First, make sure your changes are published. Changes have to be published before they will appear in the live survey link.

Next, check whether you have Allow Respondents to Finish Later turned on in your Survey Options. If you've been testing out your survey on the Anonymous Link while you make edits, then you're seeing an old version of the survey because a cookie was placed on your browser to save your progress. Open your Anonymous Link in an Incognito Window or a Private Window. If this window has your changes, then Save and Continue is just saving your place, and you don't have to worry about brand new respondents seeing an old version of the survey.

(Note: We recommend testing your survey using your preview link instead of your anonymous link for this reason.)