Login to Opinio using a unique username and password given to you by IT Services.
Opinio Access is Temporary
IT Services has limited licenses for Opinio, so access to Opinio is not permanent. After your survey is complete, IT Services will arrange a time to close the Opinio account.
Surveys Requiring Approval
Surveys going to Marquette audiences may require approval from the university's Online Survey Review Group before IT Services can issue a login.
In addition, academic research surveys require IRB review. Academic researchers will need to forward the IRB approval/exemption letter (an email attachment) before IT Services can issue a login.
Documentation
- Designing a Survey
Ignore any design instructions about creating a new survey via Opinio. IT Services sets up a survey shell for you.
If your survey requires conditional branching (i.e. if Question 2 was answered "No," skip Questions 3, 4 and 5), be sure to enter all of your survey questions before adding branching.
Make certain that the warning messages for required questions are correct (i.e. remove instances of messages which say "Please select at least ... options")
- Testing then Publishing a Survey
See the Checklist below to test your survey before publishing it.
Be sure to use colleagues (as well as yourself) to help test the survey. Review the survey carefully for things like typographical and grammatical correctness, clarity, ease-of-use and correct branching (for example).
Information about Managing your Invitee lists is here.
- Survey Reporting and Analysis
- Randomly Selecting Survey Respondents
ObjectPlanet (the maker of Opinio) also offers some tutorials on their website.
Choosing the Privacy Level
- Not Anonymous (but Confidential): This is the default. Identities of survey respondents are tracked by Opinio and the survey author can match identities to survey answers. Survey authors agree to remove identifying information from shared reports to keep identities confidential.
- Partly Anonymous: Tracked email notifications are used in the Opinio so the survey author knows who has responded to the survey, but Opinio will not reveal the respondent's identity to survey answers in any way. This is useful for anonymous surveys that require follow-up reminders and awarding a prize incentive.
- Fully Anonymous: Survey respondents cannot be identified in any way; Opinio does no tracking whatsoever. Tracked email notifications are not used in Opinio, so reminders on partial responses and prize incentives are not possible. If the survey is not brief, the save and return ("finish later") option should be enabled. Otherwise, respondents may have difficulty returning to finish an incomplete survey response.
Checklist before publishing your survey
- Did you use the preview survey function to test the survey (especially if you use question branching)?
- Did you use page breaks (with perhaps up to six questions per page) to make the survey easier to take?
- When previewing the survey, did you enter at least 256 characters of sample text into comment boxes?
- Is the survey available for responses? (Green light shows it's available)
- Are the start and stop dates for your survey correct?
- Did you delete all test responses?
- Do you want the respondent to submit the survey only once or multiple times?
- If using Opinio for e-mailing invitations, did you send a test invitation to yourself and some testing volunteers? It is strongly recommended that invitations are sent as 'Text Only' (as opposed to HTML).
- Do you need to track the identity of your respondents? If so, make sure you are using Opinio to send emails. Be sure to turn on survey authentication and set Anonymity to "No anonymity." Alternatively, if your audience is Marquette students, faculty or staff, Opinio can use an eMarq login to store respondent identity.
- If using Opinio to email your invitations, make sure your survey invitations are active. Even if the survey is active, if invitations are not activated, email invitations will not go out.
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