Limesurvey Tutorial for Teachers

1. Open your browser and navigate to https://enquetes.usj.edu.lb/admin/admin.php
2. Enter your username, password and language
3. Click on the “Connection” button.

A. CREATE A SURVEY

1. Click on the icon to create a new survey
2. Enter the title * of your survey; this text will appear on each page of your survey.
3. Choose the base language of the survey. Note that this parameter cannot be changed later!
4. Click on the “Create survey“ button

B. SETTING UP A SURVEY

B.1. GENERAL SETTINGS

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click “General Settings”
3. The name of the administrator of the questionnaire; It will be included in each email sent to participants (for invitations for example) as the sender's name. To customize this field, choose “No”
4. The administrator email address which will be used as the ‘reply to:’ address on outgoing emails. It is possible to include several email addresses by separating them with a ; (semicolon). To customize this field, choose “No”
5. Click on the “Save” button.

B.2. TEXT ELEMENTS

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click “Text elements”
3. Enter a short description of your survey
4. Enter a welcome message that will be displayed when a respondent first logs into the survey page.
5. Enter a end message to the person undertaking the survey.
6. End URL: This URL will be presented as a link at the end of the survey, and allows you to direct your participants back to your home page. You may use this feature to redirect.
7. Click on the “Save” button.

B.3. PRESENTATION

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click on “Presentation”
3. Display "No answer": If yes, the choice no answer will be displayed among the choices of multiple/single choice questions (which are not mandatory)
4. Show welcome screen: Choose whether or not to show the greeting message.
5. Allow backward navigation :
• If so, the navigation is two-way,
• If not, the navigation is unidirectional
6. Show progress bar: to let respondents know what stage of the survey they are at and what they have left to complete.
7. Participants may print answers? Yes/No
8. Automatically load URL when survey complete :
• If yes, when the survey is submitted, it will automatically redirect to the End URL. The end URL can be defined in the Text Elements Section
• If not, the URL will be displayed at the end of the questionnaire.
9. Click on the “Save” button.

B.4. PUBLICATION ET ACCES

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click “Publication and access”
3. Launch/expiry date/time ? This allows you to define a date so that the system activates/deactivates the survey automatically at midnight of the defined day. Before this date, no one will be able to answer the questionnaire.
4. Make this questionnaire public? If yes, the questionnaire will be displayed in the list of questionnaires on http://enquetes.usj.edu.lb/
5. Click on the “Save” button.

B.5. SURVEY PARTICIPANT SETTINGS

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click “Participation Settings”
3. Anonymized responses: If you choose "No", you will need to define an invitation table for the questionnaire when it is activated.
4. Click on the “Save” button.

A. CREATING A GROUP OF QUESTION

1. Click on “Structure”
2. Click on “Add group”
3. Enter the title of this group of questions
4. Enter a short description of this group of questions
5. Click on the “Save” button.

B. CREATING QUESTIONS

To create a new question,

1. Click on “Structure”
2. Click on “Add question”
3. Enter a code for your question
4. Indicate the wording of your question
5. Choose the group,
6. Indicate whether the question is mandatory or not
7. Choose the type of your question from a long drop-down list (there are several types of question)

Below are the different types of questions

B.1. Single-choice questions

Single-choice or single-answer questions allow only one possible choice. Text-type questions can also be considered single-choice answers. You must choose the type of question "5 radio buttons"

B.2. List (Dropdown) questions

Present a list of possible answers to a certain question. You can customize the answers; the options are endless and LimeSurvey lets you choose how to display them.

To insert the answers, you must first save the question, then in the new web page you must click on the icon and you can add/delete/edit the answers

B.3. Predefined questions:

• Text display: This question does not require an answer from the participant. It can be used to provide additional instructions or to graphically cut a quiz. Note: the text of the question may contain html or javascript code, so this question can be used for other purposes.
• Date : This question type is used for a response requiring a date that can be entered via a calendar.
• Ranking: Allows you to present participants with a list of possible answers that they can rank in order of preference. Ex: Please classify these films according to your preference.
• Numeric Entry: This question type is used for an answer that requires a numeric entry.
• Send file: Allows the participant to attach a file to the questionnaire, which will be attached to the store with the submitted answers.
• Yes/Non:

B.4. Multiple choice questions:

This question type can collect input of multiple selections through checkboxes. Multiple choice with comments allows you to collect input of multiple selections through checkboxes, while allowing the user to provide additional comments.

B.5. Text question:

LimeSurvey provides a number of possible variations of the standard text field. All of these can be defined further using the attributes of the question which permit to restrict the number of characters as well as the size of the field. Furthermore, text input can be validated by using regular expressions.

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click on “Questionnaire Participants”
3. Click on the "Switch to Restricted Access mode" button to manage invitations.
4. Click “Continue”

5. Import the invitations from a CSV file containing the following information: first name, last name and address (separated by commas with quotations around the different values)
6. Generate the unique invitation codes.
7. You can customize the email templates (Invitation, Reminder, Confirmation) by inserting the following fields: {FIRSTNAME}, {SURVEYNAME}, {SURVEYDESCRIPTION}, {ADMINAME}, {ADMINEMAIL}, {SURVEYURL}
8. Display the list of participants to send invitations

8. Select all invitations
9. Click on "Send Invitation Emails". A new web page will appear, click on the "send invitations" button
10. After sending the invitations, if you want to send reminders, click “Send Reminder Emails”. A new web page will appear, you must indicate the Numbers of reminders, the delay between reminders. Don't forget to click the "Send Reminders" button

1. Click on “Settings”
2. Click on “Responses”
3. To view participant responses, click "Display Responses"
4. To retrieve attendee responses, click "Export → Export Responses"