Survey administration

Survey administration screen is the survey home page. It displays important survey details and give you access to the main survey features.

Survey status. The traffic light icon on the right of the screen indicates the survey status. If the survey is open for responses, the icon light is green. If the survey is not accessible, the light is red.

A survey can be closed for the following reasons:

Closed by date (current date is before start date or after stop date).
Locked by an administrator user (usually yourself). If the survey is locked, the survey designer has edited the survey in some way. The survey cannot be open if it is being edited. To make the survey available immediately, click on the “unlock survey” link under the status icon. You can only unlock the survey that has been locked by you. If another survey designer has locked the survey you will have to wait until he/she is done.
Error in survey. If the system has detected an error in the survey, it will notify the survey designer by adding an error message at the top of the survey administration screen and changing survey status to Error. Respondents cannot answer the survey with errors because this might result in data inconsistency.
Number of allowed responses for the survey has been exceeded. See the section called “Survey behavior”.

Besides the survey status, you can also see the important survey details on the administration screen:

Survey link. Link for respondents to answer the survey.

Start date. The date when survey becomes available to respondents. Click on the link to edit the date.

Stop date. The date when survey becomes closed for respondents. Click on the link to edit the date.

Number of responses. Displays number of survey responses:
- Stored responses - responses currently stored in the database. Includes both complete and incomplete responses. Incomplete respondents include respondents who abandoned the survey and respondents who saved the survey for later completion.
- Ongoing responses - number of respondents currently responding to the survey.
- Completed responses - number of respondents who have completed the survey and stored in the database.
Number of questions - number of questions the survey contains.
Number of translations - number of languages the survey is translated to. Does not include the default language. See the section called “Translations”
Maximum number of responses - number of respondents that can answer the survey. When this number is reached, the survey will be closed and no more respondents will answer the survey. See the section called “Survey behavior”
Survey authentication - currently used authentication method for the survey. See the section called “Security and privacy”
Allow multiple submissions - method used to prevent respondents from multiple survey submissions, if any. See the section called “Survey behavior”
Anonymity of respondents in invitations - currently used level of anonymity for invitations. See the section called “Security and privacy” and invitations