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  1. Encode an Excel File to UTF-8 or UTF-16

    Encoding your Excel files into a UTF format (UTF-8 or UTF-16) can help to ensure anything you upload into Alchemer can be read and displayed properly.
  2. Having Trouble Editing a Survey?- FAQ and Troubleshooting

    If you are experiencing weird behavior when editing a survey (some buttons not responding), one quick troubleshooting step you can try is running in Private/Incognito/Safe mode which will disable the use of browser plug-ins/extensions.
  3. Understand and Reduce Bias in Your Surveys

    Leading Practice Sampling Bias - Who You Survey Sampling Bias: When some members of your survey population are less likely to be invited to be surveyed than others. If you are looking to draw conclusions about a certain group, you'...
  4. Use Alchemer for Student Research

    Many students use Alchemer to conduct research for their theses, dissertations or other graduate work. Students are certainly permitted to conduct research via the Alchemer platform, provide...
  5. Considerations Before Using Piping & Repeating

    Leading Practice To pipe, or not to pipe, that is the question. While piping comes in handy during the build phase of your survey; it's not always the best setup when it comes to your data. There's almost always an alternative to u...
  6. Make Sure Your Email Gets Where It's Going

    The ability to distribute surveys via email campaigns within Alchemer is one of our most popular features. In order for this powerful feature to continue to meet your needs we continually work...
  7. Pre-Launch Checklist

    Leading Practice Are you ready to launch your survey and start collecting responses? Excellent! We have prepared a checklist to help you make sure that you have crossed your t's and dotted your i's (both literally and figuratively) be...
  8. Avoid Survey Fatigue

    Leading Practice Survey fatigue is a cultural phenomenon. You're probably familiar with this ironic headline: "Survey says Americans getting tired of surveys." As a tool that has made surveys so very easy to build, we accept...
  9. Create HIPAA and FERPA Compliant Surveys

    Create HIPAA and FERPA compliant surveys by following these security guidelines: enable MFA, signed BAA, enable Project Data Encryption, and secure SSL links.
  10. Retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 SSL protocols

    Alchemer has scheduled a routine change to our services, and there is a change it could affect survey takers. To keep data safe while in transit, Alchemer utilizes the industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocols. In effo...