Branching in Qualtrics

So you’re about to create three different surveys to send to three different audiences, (for example prospective students, students, and grad students)… except you don’t know how do you make sure each respondent gets the right survey. Qualtrics has an easy answer, just create one survey and use branches to get the right information from everyone.

Start out with a question that segregates your audiences (are you a student, grad student exc.). Then set up three blocks, one for the responses for each group. Now go into your survey flow, and add branch for each possible answer to your first question. These branches work a little like skip logic in that you set up a condition, and only the respondents that meet that condition see that part of the survey. Set a condition for each possible answer to the first question, and then add as a new element the block of questions for that group.

By using branches, you just simplified your survey sending process! You now only need one mailing list, and you can ensure the right people are answering the right questions.

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What is Qualtrics?

Whether you are a department trying to meet the needs of students, or a student doing research for a psychology project, Qualtrics can make your life easier. Surveys are a simple and efficient option for getting information and opinions from people. With Qualtrics, surveys are made even easier because you can take care of everything online.

Qualtrics is web-based survey software that allows you to make custom surveys using any type of question you can come up with, including matching, ranking, drill down, likert, hotspots and constant sum questions. It then walks you through simple distribution and tallies your results. You can then have it generate tables and graphs of your data, and even run cross tabulations

BYU has received a multi-year grant from qualtrics, which means that if you are a BYU employee or student you can get a free online account. Once you have an account you can access it from any computer. If you want to learn how to use Qualtrics (or even just learn what all those question types do) sign up for our new Qualtrics class.