Survey capabilities on Makerble
- Matt Kepple
This article outlines the survey capabilities on Makerble.
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Question Types
Multiple Choice
Single Choice
Limited Choice
Permit respondents to select more than one option, up to a limit of your choosing.
Unlimited Choice
Allow respondents to select as many answers as necessary.
Grid
Provide a stack of questions that offer the same answer choices
Numerical
Receive answers in a numerical format and using the Unit of your choice, e.g. kilograms, £, $, etc
Segments Totaliser
Receive quantified segmentations and check that they add up to the whole.
Open text
Single Checkbox (binary)
Time
Collect times in a validated format
Date
Collect month, date and year in the right format.
File Attachment
Collect PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images, videos, audio clips and more.
Section Divider & Content Area
You can add a section header to create different sections in survey for survey questions. This field acts as a header for the the questions that follow in the survey Section Content Blocks
In-built questions
There are in-built questions that give your survey even more flexibility without the need for you to create reporting workarounds.
Date the activity happened
Backdate a survey response
Address
Add a geographic location that you can plot on a map
Add your name
Give respondents control over their anonymity - allow them to share their name if they want to. Their response profile will bear their name if they add one, or otherwise show an auto-generated number.
Respondent Guidance
Answer Choice tooltips on hover
Provide people with guidance only when they need it by showing tooltips when people hover over the Info symbol.
Answer Choice tooltips on display
Put your tooltips on display so that people understand what each Answer Choice means in practice.
Survey Flow
Question Randomiser
You can create a question pool containing multiple different questions to show a random question from them every time the survey is opened. Rotate the questions being asked in a survey (add a Rotating Question Pool)
Skip To - branching logic
Send respondents to a specific question further down in the survey (or to the end of the survey) based on their answer to this question. Useful for skipping irrelevant sections. Learn more about: Skip To.
Display If - conditional visibility (skip logic)
Only show a question if the respondent’s answer to a previous question meets certain conditions. All other respondents won’t see it. Learn more about: Display If.
Adjust When - interval logic
Adjust the visibility or wording of this question based on when the survey is completed - e.g. baseline, midline or another interval - and on who is completing it - e.g. respondent, colleague, external person, etc. → Learn more about: Adjust When.
Page Layouts & Branding
Vertical Scroll
Display all your questions on the same canvas, one below the other.
Immersive
Focus respondents' attention on the question at hand by displaying one question at a time.
Side by Side
Capture retrospective baselines at the same time as another survey response by showing the two sets of questions, side by side. Learn more about Side by Side.
Sheet
See your historical survey responses displayed in a spreadsheet format. Enter today’s response in the right side column and scroll to the left to see previous entries. Designed for recording financial figures or other information that you need to analyse longitudinally. Learn more about Sheet Mode.
Multi-Respondent
Input responses about several contacts at the same time. Learn more about: Multi-Respondent.
Colour scheme
Apply your own colour scheme to buttons, text, backgrounds and borders to make your survey feel like it’s part of your brand and website. Learn more about: Colour scheme.
Logo
Display your logo on your survey pages. Learn more about: Logo.
Custom web address
Run your survey on your own domain or customise the survey link to make it more memorable. Learn more about: Custom web addresses.
Custom redirects and Thank You messaging
Add your own Thank You message and redirect respondents to a web address of your choosing once they’ve submitted their survey response. Learn more about: Custom Redirects.
Respondent Types
Anonymous (Universal)
Collect responses from anyone with the link. Perfect for when you need to gather opinions en-masse.
Tracked
Send unique survey links to respondents. Know when each individual respondent has answered the survey. Great for longitudinal analysis.
Intelligent Anonymisation
Send unique links to respondents whilst protecting their anonymity. Responses are indirectly linked to respondents which means that you can’t see which respondent provided each answer, but you can nevertheless unpack the Distance Travelled over time to see the number of respondents who changed their answers in particular ways between intervals.
360°
Collect observers' perspectives on how a participant is doing.
Flattened
Enter the number of people who provided each answer to each question. Suitable for when you’re relying on a manual headcount or don’t have the time to enter historical survey responses that are on paper.
Entered by Colleagues
You and your colleagues can manually enter survey responses. You can also import survey responses from a spreadsheet.
Survey Reminders
Via Email
Send out automated reminder emails to respondents who have not submitted the survey by a certain point in time. Create a series of reminder emails that are triggered at various points as you get closer to your deadline.
Via SMS
Send out automated reminder messages to respondents via SMS. As with email you can create several reminder messages that launch at different points in time.
Automated Follow-up Actions
Once a survey has been submitted you can automate several follow-up actions based on the answers provided by a respondent.
Send an Email to respondent
Acknowledge receipt of the survey response and/or provide tailored communications
Send an SMS to respondent
Acknowledge receipt of the survey response and/or provide tailored communications
Send another survey to respondent
Capture additional information by automatically sending out a follow-on survey based on the answers provided to the first one
Notify a colleague
Send an alert to a particular colleague (e.g. someone in a particular department such as safeguarding or risk management) based on a respondent’s answer to a particular survey question.
Flag the respondent
Automatically add a flag to the respondent’s profile to highlight important about them based on the content of their survey response.
Analysis & Reporting
Progress Boards - interactive dashboards
Explore the answers to every question. Compare cohorts side-by-side. Segment and filter.
Outcome Rings - spider plot radar charts
Group several questions together in a visual layout to see the trends over time at an individual and cohort level.
