SurveySolutions Essentials

SurveySolutions Essentials is a two-day technical training course that focuses on comprehensive "core" topics needed to master SurveySolutions. Topics focus strongly on survey development and deployment. Users learn how to build on that knowledge to work with such advanced concepts as advanced branching, drilldowns, and piping data. The platform for this training is the SurveySolutions desktop product.

The first day covers introductory and beginning "core" topics, as follows:

Survey Basics
What is a survey?
The survey process

Creating a Questionnaire
Survey Templates 
Components of Questions

Working with Task Panes
Appearance Tab
Validations and Properties Tabs

Table Questions
Creation of Tables
Modification of Table Properties

Intermediate Survey Design
Library Questions and Scales
Choice Groups

Survey Properties
Submission page and Live Results options
Validation Messages           

Publishing Surveys to the Web
Publishing and formatting surveys
Using Cascading Style Sheets with SurveySolutions

Testing, Documentation and Collaboration
Tips for testing a survey
Flowcharting

Results Management
Types of Databases
Creating a Database and Loading Responses 

Charting and Analysis
Creating a Presentation
Performing basic data analysis

Survey Deployment
Creating Survey Invitations
Setting up mail-merge survey invitations
Managing your survey invitees
Deployment tips

The second day covers the following advanced topics:

Advanced Survey Design
Review of intermediate design concepts 

Customizing the SurveySolutions environment
Option tabs
Commands Tabs
The Web environment  

Survey Enhancements
Code customization
Client and Server setup
JavaScript resources

Working with languages
Survey deployment in different languages
Customizing Multi-byte languages

Hidden Identifiers and User IDs

Advanced Branching

Students have an opportunity to reinforce these topics by completing a written exercise at the end of each unit.

• Access White Papers
• Read Business Reports
• View Demos