Running and testing the questionnaire
The questions you see on-screen in the Questionnaire Creator are the Editor View that shows the contents of the questionnaire. To see how the questionnaire will look in reality use the Test/Preview button. This will show the questions as they will work in reality with pagination, and can be used to check contents, display, logic and routing.
On desktops the Editor View and Test/Preview options will be seen side-by-side, but on smaller screens the Test/Preview view is shown as a pop-up screen. Get used to using the Test/Preview views so you can check flow and user experience.
When you use Test/Preview it keeps you at the last page you were on and it remembers the answers you have entered and will follow any routing you have, so you can edit and test without having to go through the questionnaire all the time.
For participant satisfaction it’s important that surveys don’t feel like Word documents, and many more modern question types are much more visual and interactive than can be displayed in a Word document.
Test/preview and data collection modes
Cxoice actually has mulitple modes for collecting data
Test/Preview
The first one is a local test/preview in your browser, which is used for testing. Data is captured, but is just held for testing purposes. You can use ‘Reset test data’ from the ‘Collect Local Data’ menu option on the left to clear this data.
Offline/local data collection
The second mode is for off-line data collection and is suitable to student use or simple in-person interviewing without needing an online connection. The option 'Collect local data' allows you conduct interviews, and records data from each interview separately. This doesn’t send any data to the server, but still records the answers locally per interview. In this mode your questionnaire and your data are entirely stored with your browser and are entirely private to you as the data is never passed to a server. So long as you are not in Private Browsing mode, the data and questions will persist on your browser. Multiple interviews can be conducted on the same device with the data being saved locally to the browser as individual interviews, with the ability to save the data directly as a .csv file without needing to use the Cxoice online server (server-less use). This is also available for HTMLApp or FormApp questionnaires (see later)
Online testing
The third data collection mode is also for testing, but this time when you are creating online surveys for use on the internet. For this you will need to publish the questionnaire to an online Cxoice account. The online test, runs through the survey as it would if it was being done for real and allows you to check and validate the data before going to a live survey. You need to be logged in and have an account to do Online Test, and you can share an online test with other people when the survey is set to ‘Test’ when you are working in your project workspace area.
Full online surveys across the web, phone and video
The main options for collecting data will be full online surveys - the most common use of Cxoice. In Cxoice, online surveys can be conducted in many different ways. From a simple web-link, to full telephone interviewing, web-assists, and video-assists, or as video-accompained self-complete interviews. To use Cxoice for online survey, you will need to publish the survey to your Cxoice account into a Project Workspace Area. The section on Project Workspace Areas will explain how to connect to panels or lists, how to monitor fieldwork and how to build analysis and live-data presentations.
