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 button on the right. This will show the questions as they will work in reality with pagination, and can be used to check contents, display, logic and routing.

 

Get used to using the Test button so you can check flow and user experience. When you use Test it keeps you at the last page you were on, 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 and data collection modes

 

Cxoice actually has two two test modes.

 

The first one is a local test in your browser. This doesn’t send any data to the server, but still records your answers locally. 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.

 

You can use ‘Reset test data’ from the ‘Collect Local Data’ menu option on the left to clear this data. Some question types, like web-overlays are not available in a local test.

 

The second test mode is as ‘Online test’ once the survey is published into a Cxoice online account. For online questionnaires this tests the survey as it would be done for real. 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.

 

A third option is to ‘Collect local data’ for individual off-line interviews. This is aimed for situations where Cxoice is used in an off-line mode and is particularly suitable for free projects which do not need a full online survey such as student projects carried out face-to-face. In this mode, 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).

 

See the section on Collecting Local Data.