Setting up your survey

1. Open a browser and go to the Research Survey Centre web page. NOTE: If you are working off-campus, you will need to connect via the VPN client.
2. Click on the Register or Upgrade link in the navigation panel on the left.
3. Click on Register a new Survey.
4. Log in with your Griffith “s” number and password, then click the Log in button.
5. Click on the Sandpit survey radio button.
6. Fill in the details for the survey, noting that some fields are mandatory. For this exercise, enter the title Healthy Lifestyles.
7. Click the Submit button.

1. You will have received a notification in your Griffith email which contains a link to open the survey. For now, you can go straight to the LimeSurvey home page.

1. Log in again with your Griffith “s” number and password, then click the Log in button.

1. Click on the List surveys button. Any surveys you have created will be listed.
2. Click on the survey you want to open.
3. Read any warnings (shown in brown) and any information panels (shown in blue). The large buttons on the screen are highlighted blue (available) or grey (not available at this time).

1. Click on the large Edit text elements and general settings button on the screen.
2. Click into the Title: text box.
3. Add: (S) to the end of the Title to indicate that the survey is in Sandpit.

1. Click into the Description: text box.
2. Type: Do YOU have a healthy lifestyle?

The HTML toolbar provides options for text formatting in any LimeSurvey text box that allows it. Most of the buttons will be familiar to you as they are very similar to the functions you see on the Microsoft Word ribbon. The first button on the toolbar expands and collapses the text box and is useful if you have a lot of text or a lot of formatting.

1. Explore and familiarise yourself with the buttons on the HTML toolbar.
2. In the Description: text box, Bold the text YOU.

1. Still in the Description: text box, insert some ```s before the text, then position the insertion point at the top.
2. On the HTML toolbar, click the Insert image button.
3. In the Image Properties dialog box, click on the Browse Server button.
4. Click the Upload button and browse to the Exercise Files folder.
5. Select HealthyLogo.PNG and click Open. The file will be uploaded to the Images folder on the LimeSurvey server.
6. Double-click on the image to display the Image Properties dialog box again.
7. Adjust the properties to suit and click OK.

1. Click into the Welcome message: text box.

1. Type (or copy and Paste as Plain Text):

There’s often so much going on in an average day that it’s hard to stop and think, so it’s easy for a few bad habits to slip into everyone’s daily routine. We’ve put together this assessment to help you identify where you are doing well, and where there is room for improvement. On completion, you’ll receive a personalised report containing advice and guidance on keeping yourself healthy. Click Next to begin.

Note that the larger portion of text goes into the Welcome message and not into the Description as you might think. This is because the underlying template uses a large font for the Description field – too much text would fill a screen!

1. Still in the Welcome message: text box, insert some <Enter>s after the text and type Please read the Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.
2. Select the text Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, then on the HTML toolbar, click the Link button.
3. Click the Browse Server button. Any files already uploaded will be listed here and can be selected.
4. To upload a new file, click the Upload button and browse to the Exercise Files folder.
5. Select The Responsible Conduct of Research.pdf and click Open. The file will be uploaded to the Files folder on the LimeSurvey server.
6. Once uploaded, double-click on the file to include it.

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1. Still in the Link dialog box, click the Target tab.
2. Click the Target selection list arrow.
3. Click on New Window (_blank) to select it.
4. Click the OK button.

1. Click into the End message: text box.
2. Type: Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.
3. Click into the End URL: text box (optional)
4. Type: www.griffith.edu.au
5. Click into the URL description: text box (used only when End URL is used)
6. Type: Griffith University

The Survey settings panel is on the right-hand side of the Edit survey text elements and settings screen.

1. Clicking on any left-facing arrowhead will expand the Survey settings.
2. Click on each heading to explore the options but don’t select anything at this time.

Near the top on the right-hand side of the screen you will see three buttons: Save, Save and close and Close. • The Save button saves your changes and allows you to continue editing. • The Save and close button saves your changes and closes the current screen. • The Close button closes the current screen without saving.

1. Click the Save and close button.