Questionnaire Builder 2 is our new tool that builds upon the functionality that you might be used to from our original Questionnaire Builder 1, but with some great new changes! Even if you're used to Questionnaire Builder 1, this step-by-step walkthrough should get you up and running with some of the new features that we've implemented in Questionnaire Builder 2.
The best way to get started with the Questionnaire Builder 2 is to start building. This guide will walk you through the process of creating a basic questionnaire, complete with different question types, conditional questions and page branching.
We suggest you have two tabs open - one with this walkthrough, and one to create the questionnaire in. To start the walkthrough you should open your Gorilla homepage. You will also need the stimuli used in this questionnaire - you can download them here:
The finished questionnaire will look like this:
You can also view a finished version of this questionnaire in our Questionnaire Builder 2 Tutorials Project.
First, create a new project and then create a new Questionnaire inside it by choosing 'Questionnaire Builder 2' from the dropdown list under the New Tools heading.
Click 'Edit' to start building the questionnaire.
Your Questionnaire is built page by page. We’ll start with the first page. The first page is automatically created for you. Onto this blank page, you can add objects - objects are individual questions, text, or stimuli. These replace the ‘widgets’ of the old Questionnaire Builder. You can find a full list of objects in our Questionnaire Builder 2 objects guide.
We’re going to start by adding a title to the questionnaire. To do so, click ‘add object’, then select ‘Text’.
To a text object, you can add any text you’d like, and add additional formatting using Markdown. Add the text ‘# Pet survey’ - then use the Text Align setting to center this title.
You should see a live preview of what the questionnaire should look like so far. A ‘Next’ button is automatically added to each page.
Now we’ve added our first object, we’re going to continue by adding our first question. Click ‘Add Object’ again, and select Multiple Choice List. Under the ‘Question’ setting, on the right hand side of the screen, add ‘Do you have a pet?’. Under Options, click the ‘Add’ button. In the box, add ‘Yes’ to both the Value and Label fields. Repeat this to add a ‘No’ option.
For the second question, add a ‘Dropdown’ object, with the Question ‘How many pets do you have?’, and the options: 1, 2, 3, and 4+
We’re going to follow this with another text object, this time with the text ‘This survey will ask you about only one pet, so please decide which pet you'd like to answer questions about’.
The order in which different objects appear in your Objects tab defines the order in which they are going to appear on your page. If you want to change their order, you can just drag and drop them to a different place.
That’s our first page done! Now click the + New Page Button. You can flick between pages by clicking the arrows above the live preview, or clicking the ‘Page Order’ button in the top right.
In total, we want 5 pages. On Page 2 and 3, add questions using a variety of objects. A full list is available in the Objects Guide.
Each object should allow you to choose whether the participant needs to respond to continue, using the ‘Optional’ setting.
On Page 4, add a slider object, with the question ‘On a scale of 1-10, with 0 meaning not at all cute, and 10 meaning extremely cute, how cute would you rate the above animal?’ Set a custom range of 0 to 10, add labels to show this, show the slider tooltip, and set the step size to 1. Participants will be able to select only a full number between 0 and 10.
Page 5 is our last page, so use a text object to add a thank you message.
Next, we want to add a picture of a dog to page 4. On the far left of your screen, click on the image icon to navigate to the stimuli tab.
You can upload images by clicking on the ‘Add Stimuli’ button on the right of your screen, then ‘Choose files’. In your folders, find the image of the dog you downloaded from the ‘Overview’ screen. Select it, and click ‘open’
Next, click on the page icon on the far left, to navigate back to pages. On Page 4, click ‘Add Object’, and select ‘Image’.
Under Image settings, click on ‘choose’ , and select the dog image. Shrink the image by setting Image Max Height to 500, and center the image.
Then in the objects list, drag the word ’Image’ above the word ‘Slider’ to reorder the objects, so the Image is at the top of the page.
A great feature of the new Questionnaire Builder is the ability to hide and show questions based on the responses to other questions. You can find out more about this in our How-To Guide.
Let’s go back to Page 1. If the participant doesn’t have a pet, it doesn’t make sense to ask them how many pets they have. So we’ll hide this question unless they answer ‘Yes’.
To do this, Go to your Dropdown object, and turn on the ‘Conditional’ toggle. Set the default state to ‘Hide’. Visibility should be set to ‘Show if’. Field should be set to ‘Do you have a pet’ . Comparison should be ‘Equal to’. Value should be ‘Yes’.
Once we’ve done this, the ‘How many pets do you have?’ dropdown will be hidden unless the participant selects ‘Yes’.
Similarly, we only want to show the ‘please decide which pet to answer questions about’ message to participants with more than one pet, so let’s make this text object conditional on their response to ‘How many pets you have’. Start by clicking on the Text object that contains the message. Repeat the above steps, but this time, set the Field to ‘How many pets do you have?’, the Comparison setting to ‘Greater than’, and the Value to 1.
Great job! You can check this is working using the page preview function - click on the play symbol on top of the page, to see what the participant will see.
In addition to setting up conditional questions, we can send participants to completely different screens depending on their answers. This means that if our participant has no pets, we can send them straight to the finish screen, but ask all other participants the rest of our questions.
We can control screen branching from the Screen setting tab, above your object settings. Toggle on screen branching.
You’ll need two destinations boxes. In both, bind the Field to ‘Response - Do you have a pet?’, and set Comparison to Equal to.
In one, set the Value to Yes, and the Page to Page 2. In the other, set the Value to No, and the Page to Page 5.
Great! Your questionnaire is all set up. To check everything is working properly, let’s run a preview.
Press the Commit button in the top right, and then the Preview button. At the end of the preview, you’ll have the opportunity to download the preview data.
Once you’ve created any Questionnaire, the next step is to add it to an Experiment! Our How To: Experiments guide is the best place to start.
Have a go at creating your own custom questionnaire.
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