Power surveys

Learn more about the most powerful survey builder available.

Power survey authoring, the survey builder from Sparq 1, gives you limitless flexibility in creating the most advanced surveys possible.

With power surveys you can:

• Customize the way your survey looks with advanced scripting.

Note: To enable power surveys, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

• The power survey workflow
  Build your survey in the Power Survey Authoring tab then publish and distribute your survey in Community.
• When to use a power survey
  Surveys will accommodate most of your research needs; however, there may be specific circumstances under which you would use a power survey instead.
• Create a power survey
  Create a new survey using the most advanced survey builder available.
• Open an existing power survey
  In the Surveys app, surveys are listed on the Activities page by date created, with the most recent surveys listed first.
• Change access settings for a power survey
  If you are an Admin, Power User, or Author, you can adjust the access settings for a power survey, whenever necessary, to ensure that the appropriate users can access the power survey.
• The Overview page
  View participation statistics for your power survey.
• Lock a power survey
  A power survey is locked when the authoring tabs are open. This prevents multiple users from editing or publishing a survey at the same time.
• The Build page
  Monitor and publish your power surveys in one view.
• Publish a power survey
  Make the survey live and available to participants.
• Publish changes in a live power survey
  After editing a live survey, republish your survey for the changes to take effect.
• Unpublish a power survey
  Take the survey offline and make it unavailable to participants.
• Validate a power survey
  Validate a power survey in Power Survey Authoring.
• Survey details
  The Details tab displays details related to your survey.
• Accessibility
  Learn about the web accessibility features that Alida has built into power surveys to help you create more WCAG compliant surveys.
• Previewing a survey
  Preview a survey before you deploy it.
• Preview the visual version of a survey
  Before you deploy a survey, preview the HTML version of the questions.
• Print a survey
  Create a printable version of the questionnaire.
• System questions
  System questions collect information about participants as they complete your survey.
• Participation Study
  The Participation Study is a system survey that automatically collects and stores data about the participants and their participation in the community.
• Unsubscribe Study
  The Unsubscribe Study collects data about why participants choose to leave a community and unsubscribe from survey notifications.
• Data migration
  Viewing reports for power surveys that contain data from Sparq 1.