Ramp Up #11: Lime Survey for online surveys
LimeSurvey is a survey engine that allows you to create and deliver surveys online. The main features and benefits are:
- Rapidly create and distribute surveys to extract valuable insight from employees, customers and potential customers.
- Export survey results in various formats for further analysis in a spreadsheet program such as Excel or Numbers.
- Build in conditional logic to create a custom stream of questions that intelligently adapts as the respondent answers.
- Host the surveys as publicly-available for anyone to respond or lock it down for private submission only with invite codes.
If you’ve been meaning to conduct an online survey to tap the knowledge of a group of people check out the video below for a quick overview of how to get started with Lime Survey. In this video we’ll create a survey from scratch, add three different types of questions, deliver it to a respondent and then browse the results. As a side note this JumpBox lends itself particularly well to deployment on EC2. Bring up an instance for a few days to gather responses and then use the backup/restore mechanism to take it offline for processing the results.
And when you’re finished with the video take LimeSurvey for a spin yourself by clicking the orange button below. Happy surveying!
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Great Video. It gives confidence to the end users that it is not hard to get going on Open Source Apps !
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please show us how to include logic/skip questions in lime survey