The document provides an overview of how to build and manage surveys using LimeSurvey. It covers topics such as creating basic survey settings, adding question groups and different types of questions, setting question options and relevance rules, launching the survey, and viewing responses and statistics. Key question types discussed include single choice, multiple choice, array, and mask questions. The document also explains how to set up sub-questions, options, and advanced features for different question types.

1. Build and manage surveys with LimeSurvey:
Getting started creating a web-survey
Luciano Fanfoni

2. Contents
1. Basic survey settings
2. Groups & Questions: general & common items
3. Question types: text, number, single choice, multiple choice, array, mask
4. Single choice: answers options, labels
5. Multiple choice & Array: sub-questions
6. Launching the survey
7. Responses and Statistics
Build and manage surveys with LimeSurvey
Getting started creating a web-survey

3. Create a survey

4. General Settings

5. Presentation & Navigation

6. Publication & Access control

7. Notification & Data Management

8. Questions groups – Add new
 Creating group is the first
step
 Groups are containers of
questions
 Group=Section of the
questionnaire
 No question outside a
group
 Possibility to reorder
groups and questions
 Group relevance:
hide/show group and its
questions
 Controlling
navigation/Branching

9. Questions – Add new
 Unique code for the whole
questionnaire
 Code syntax
 Text of the question
 Help for the question
 Preview question

10. Questions – General options
 Question group
 Mandatory: checked at “next
page”/”submit”
 Relevance: show/hide on conditions
 Validation: Regular expressions
(RegExp)
 Advanced option according to question
type

11. Questions: Advanced options and other features
 Preview the question
stand-alone, inside his
group, in the whole
questionnaire
 Edit the question to modify
general and advanced
options
 Export or copy the
question to re-use it
 Set conditions to define
question relevance using a
simple interface
 Edit default answers to
define pre-filled value as
response of the question
that respondent can modify

12. Simple text, number & date
 Advanced Options
 One field on Responses
Table for single answer

13. Single choice questions
 Option 'Other‘ as standard
feature
 Dropdown vs Radio
 Answer options:
 Code
 Options labels
 Label sets
 Quick add
 One field on “Response
Table” for single answer

14. Multiple choice questions
 Option 'Other‘ as standard
feature
 Advanced options
 Array filter
 Exclusive option
 Subquestions:
 Code, labels, label
sets
 Relevance
 One field on “Response
Table” for each
Subquestion (Y or null)

15. Multiple text & numbers
 Subquestions:
 Code, labels, label sets
 Relevance/array filter
 One field on “Responses Table” for
each Subquestions
 Multiple Numeric input
 Set Validation (Min/Max/Equal)
 Total calculation
 Slider layout

16. Array questions - overview
 Subquestions:
 Code, labels, label sets
 Relevance/array filter
 Option Answers
 Code, labels, label sets
 One field on “Response Table” for each
Subquestion and combination
 Array types:
Ready to use: answers options predefined
Array standard: 1 set of subquestions + 1 set of
answers options
Text/Numbers: 2 sets of subquestions (X, Y)
X*Y input box (text/number) or dropdown or
checkbox
Dual scale: 1 set of subquestions + 2 set of
answers options

17. Array questions – examples 1

18. Array questions - examples 2

19. Array questions - examples 3

20. Mask questions - examples

21. Launching the survey
 After building and test your questionnaire, you can activate the survey
 Creation of “Response Table”
 URL for respondents: <my_site>/limesurvey/index.php/<Survey_ID>
 If the survey is active, you cannot do:
• Add or delete groups, questions, subquestions
• Change the order of groups and questions
• Modify questions & subquestions codes,
• Change questions types
 You still can:
• Modify question texts, helps, suggestion
• Hide or show existing questions (relevance)
• Add or delete or edit answer options
• Modify validation and mandatory checks
• Change navigation control and the survey logic in general

22. Responses
• “Response Table” structure
• Filtering “Response Table”
• Data Entry
• Exporting Responses
• Statistics: filters and graphs

23. ONLINE DEMO: