Answer Choice Explanations are descriptions that explain the meaning of each Answer Choice in a Multiple Choice Question. These explanations are visible to survey respondents.

Add an Explanation to an Answer Choice

• Imagine you have a Multiple Choice Question with 5 answer choices.

  • The question is What is your level of confidence

  • and the Answer Choices are a numerical scale of 1 to 5

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• By adding an Explanation you can ensure that respondents know for example that 1 means Very Low and 5 means Very High

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• The Explanations are saved within that set of Answer Choices

Create new Explanations when using Shared Answer Choices

• Imagine you are creating a second question, What is your level of resilience and you want to use a 5 point scale for that as well

• Rather than creating a new scale, you can reuse the Answer Choices from your previous question by

  • Selecting Start with an existing set of Answer Choices

  • Choosing a set of Answer Choices from the dropdown list

  • Picking What is your level of confidence

  • This causes the Answer Choices to automatically appear as well as their Explanations

  • If you want to use different Explanations, select Create new descriptions

  • This lets you change the Explanations

Reuse existing Explanations when using Shared Answer Choices

• Imagine there’s a third question you want to ask: What is your level of interdependence and you want to use the same 5 point scale that you’ve used previously

• Once again you can choose Start with an existing set of Answer Choices

• And then select What is your level of confidence

• But because there are now two sets of Explanations there is a dropdown list

• In the dropdown list you can choose between the first and second sets of explanations

  • This is what it would look like if you chose the explanations from What is your level of resilience

• So you can either choose from the existing Explanations or you could click Create new description again to create a new Explanation

The Next Step

• Choose whether Answer Choice Explanations are displayed to a respondent by default or in a popup

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