{"id":9875,"date":"2009-10-26T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=9875"},"modified":"2013-09-10T16:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:17:57","slug":"methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/people\/forms\/surveys\/methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Methods of Administering Web-based Surveys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three different ways to administer web-based surveys on BU&#8217;s Web       servers. These methods differ in two areas: your survey&#8217;s respondents and your       survey&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>The three methods are as follows:<\/p>\n<h2><a name=\"type1\"><\/a>1. Publicly administered and anonymous<\/h2>\n<p>This is by far the easiest type of survey to create. Since you want anybody to     be able to take the survey, no special restrictions have to be in place. You can     create this type of survey using only PonyExpress.<\/p>\n<h3>Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s easy to create and administer.<\/li>\n<li>Anybody with the URL can respond.<\/li>\n<li>No special restriction is necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Uses just PonyExpress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Drawbacks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unable to verify identity of respondent.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to restrict audience.<\/li>\n<li>Unable to eliminate duplicate respondents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a name=\"type2\"><\/a>2. Restricted audience, anonymous<\/h2>\n<p>This survey type is similar to the publicly administered, anonymous survey in     that you collect no identifying information from your users. Unlike the above     survey, however, you can choose to limit the potential respondents by using an     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/management\/access\/\">.htaccess<\/a> file.<\/p>\n<h3>Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can focus the survey on specific members of the BU community in order           to maintain a consistent response base.<\/li>\n<li>You can limit the survey to specific BU users, BU status (faculty, staff,           etc.), BU department, or create a special username\/password pair to distribute           to a selected audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Drawbacks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Unable to eliminate duplicate respondents.<\/li>\n<li>You must add an <a href=\"\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/non-wordpress\/management\/restrict\/\">.htaccess<\/a> file.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s slightly more complicated to create.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><a name=\"type3\"><\/a><\/strong>3. Restricted audience, non-anonymous respondent<\/h2>\n<p>For this method, you can use Formlogin in conjunction with a standard     PonyExpress-enabled HTML form. Formlogin gets information about your website&#8217;s     visitors from BU&#8217;s PH database&#8211;the same database that serves BU&#8217;s online directory.     You can adapt your web forms to submit some,  all, or none of this information     to your tab-delimited file. You accomplish this by inserting special Formlogin     variables into your form fields.<\/p>\n<h3>Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatically filled fields give a sense of personalization to your survey.<\/li>\n<li>Since Formlogin uses Kerberos authentication, it allows you to verify           the identity of your respondents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Drawbacks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Formlogin can only be used for respondents within the BU community.<\/li>\n<li>Respondents must have a BU login name and Kerberos password.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s slightly more complicated to create.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three different ways to administer web-based surveys on BU&#8217;s Web servers. These methods differ in two areas: your survey&#8217;s respondents and your survey&#8217;s data. The three methods are as follows: 1. Publicly administered and anonymous This is by far the easiest type of survey to create. 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