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 Survey researchers frequently use randomization as a tool to combat survey bias. Randomizing the order of questions, pages, and/or answer options in your survey prevents bias introduced by order and/or survey fatigue. Within Alchemer you can randomi...
							 
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You can set up hidden Radio Button questions (which are commonly available throughout the application) to store your Slider values.
							 
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Use Comments to add an open-text comment field questions in your survey. Comments can be added to many question types in Alchemer.
							 
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Edit the question and go to the Layout tab. Scroll to find the Option Sorting section and select the option to Alphabetize Options. Save your question and you're all set.
							 
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Customize the 'Comment' text for all comment boxes in your survey. You can customize this text question-by-question.
							 
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You may want to add a "Mark all that apply" instruction in a checkbox question or instructions about validation rules you may have set up.
							 
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If you want to embed social media posts into a survey, all you need to do is grab the appropriate embed code from their site and paste it into a Text/Media element.
							 
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 Adding placeholder text to your open-text fields is a great idea to assist your survey respondents when responding to your survey. This is especially true if you are asking open-text questions that require a specific format e.g., phone number, email...
							 
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 Survey researchers use randomization as a tool to combat survey bias. Randomizing the order of questions, pages, and/or answer options in your survey can prevent bias introduced by order and/or survey fatigue. Within Alchemer you can randomize  ques...
							 
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If you created grid question type (e.g., Radio Button Grid, Checkbox Grid etc.) with a lot of rows you might want to repeat the column headers to make your the grid easier for your survey responde...
							 
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If you'd like your question to have a preselected answer option or default text automatically populated, follow these steps.
							 
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 If you find that you need to wrap a Alchemer  merge code  inside of HTML, there are some best-practice tips that we recommend following.  A common example of using HTML is creating a hyperlink.    Visit Alchemer    The above HTML code will render li...
							 
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 In this tutorial we'll cover very basic pre-population task: using an answer previously collected in a survey in a later question in the survey.   Be sure to visit our other pre-population tutorials if you're looking to do more in-depth pre-populati...
							 
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   CSS Class Names allow you to set up a CSS Class on a specific question (or action) that you can then apply CSS to in your survey's theme settings.  More technically speaking, a class is a text string that is added to the question's outer-most div ...
							 
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 Hiding the titles for answer options within Likert Scale questions is a very common survey design practice. For example, you may just want to display the titles for right and left-most answer options (and/or Not Applicable options) as below.     The...
							 
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 By default, the text field in textbox questions is displayed below the question text. If you would prefer to display the textbox to the right of the question you can achieve this pretty quickly.     Here's how:   Set up your textbox question.  Next,...
							 
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Have you ever wanted to align questions into columns within a survey, or put questions next to each other on the page? The easiest way to achieve this is with the Custom Group question type which...
							 
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 The Slider List question was built to accommodate relatively short row headers. If you find that you need to adjust the width of either the row header or the slider to accommodate your row header text you can do so with a little CSS!  Place the belo...