{"id":200,"date":"2010-04-29T10:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=200"},"modified":"2014-12-19T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:03:10","slug":"i-wonder-if-you-have-time-for-a-quick-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2010\/04\/29\/i-wonder-if-you-have-time-for-a-quick-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;I wonder if you have time for a quick survey?&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know, not the words we like to hear when we&#8217;re in the middle of a Saturday shop.<\/p>\n<p>Still, what if you find yourself needing to set up a survey as part of your own research? One option is to go online, and at Loughborough we have an account with <a title=\"BOS home page\" href=\"http:\/\/survey.bris.ac.uk\">Bristol Online Surveys (BOS)<\/a> based at the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>Surveys have Loughborough branding, are SSL encrypted, and come\u00a0with a Loughborough-looking URL (www.surveys.lboro.ac.uk\/yoursurveyname).<\/p>\n<p>BOS is a web-based application, there&#8217;s nothing to download to your computer, and works equally well on a Mac or PC. The online help is comprehensive and usable<\/p>\n<p>There are six question types:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>selection lists<\/li>\n<li>multiple choice<\/li>\n<li>multiple answer<\/li>\n<li>single line free text<\/li>\n<li>multiple line free text<\/li>\n<li>date<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>and it&#8217;s possible to create Likert Scales, grids, branched questions and more, so it&#8217;s a well-specified system. There are internationalisation options, although there are limitations with non-European character sets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1130\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz003.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-image-1130 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031-300x178.png\" alt=\"Screengrab of typical BOS survey\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031-500x297.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031-900x535.png 900w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2010\/04\/Google-ChromeScreenSnapz0031.png 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sections and questions in BOS surveys are colour-coded to aid visual navigation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you wish to set up an account, need help\/advice setting up a survey or just want try the BOS demo, please contact <a href=\"mailto:learn@lboro.ac.uk\">learn@lboro.ac.uk<\/a> and they&#8217;ll help you on your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOS is a comprehensive online survey and questionnaire tool available to researchers and academics at Loughborough. Find out more from Martin Ashby in the Research Office.<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2010\/04\/29\/i-wonder-if-you-have-time-for-a-quick-survey\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,102,103],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evaluation","category-elearningresearch","category-researchers","tag-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}