Add randomisation (a Rotating Question Pool) to a Survey

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Last updated: Dec 10, 2024 by Matt Kepple
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You can add a Question Pool to the survey - which is a collection of questions, and each time the survey is completed, it will choose a random question from the pool for the user to answer.

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This is helpful when the survey has to be answered very often and you do not want the users becoming bored of answering the same questions or you want to randomise the questions appearing on the survey. As the question pool chooses a random question each time, it keeps the survey fresh every time it is completed.

Question pool works for a single question. That is, each question pool displays one question on the survey. If you want to add multiple random questions, you have to create multiple question pools and add them to the survey separately.

Steps to add a Question Pool:

  1. Go to the Edit survey template page. You can get there by either

    1. Creating a new Survey Template

    2. Editing an existing Survey Template

  2. You arrive in the Survey Editor

  3. If there is a pool already created, you can find it in the left side panel. Search the name at the top. Click Add questions pool to survey button to add one of these Question Pool to the survey template.

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  4. You can also add Question Pool from the public library by as well by clicking the Add to Survey button.

  5. To create a new Question Pool, click the Create a new Question or Section button at the top.

  6. The New Question popup appears

  7. Select Rotating Questions Pool as the type of question

     

  8. Enter a name in the for the question pool in the Name of the Question Pool field. It has to be a unique name.

  9. Select the owner from the Dropdown to set who will be the owner of this field. This will set permissions of who can edit this field.

  10. Click Save button in the Bottom-Right corner to save the field.

  11. This will create a new question pool and it will now appear on the right side in the Questions section

  12. Next step is to add questions to this question pool.

  13. If you have already created questions that needs to be added to the question pool, search them in the left side panel. If you have not created them, create them following these steps: Add questions to a surveyarchived

  14. Once you have the questions ready, click the Add to Pool button next to the questions.

  15. This will launch the Add to Pool popup.

  16. Select all the pools you want to add the question to and click Save

  17. Similarly, add other questions to the pool as well.

You need to add at least three questions to the question pool to add that pool to the survey.

  1. Now add the Question pool to the survey by clicking the Add questions pool to survey button under the created question pool.

     

  2. You can see the question pool added to the survey and also see the questions that are added to the question pool itself. You can reorder the position, remove it from the survey, make it mandatory and do other things like you do with other types of questions.

  3. Save the Survey by clicking the Save button at the bottom.

  4. The Rotating question pool has been added to the survey. Now each time a user opens the survey to complete it, they will see a random question for the ones added to the pool in place of the question pool.