The Survey Design Wizard assists you in creating a new survey by taking you through a simple six step procedure:

•  Select Survey
•  Survey Name
•  Survey Questions
•  Select Layout
•  Survey Rules
•  Test Survey

Create a survey with customized questions and answer choices that meet your specific business needs.

Select from over one hundred pre-designed survey templates in eleven business categories.

Build your survey by compiling the questions from Key Survey Question Library.

Create a new survey by copying, editing and customizing an existing survey.

Also called the Teacher/Student survey, this survey type provides the means to create one teacher profile survey that is linked (through a shared, unique "profile code") to multiple student surveys.

Use the Spell Check feature to check for and prevent spelling errors.

Add new or custom words into the Spell Check user dictionary.

Provide your respondents with the ability to choose a specific language for the survey. This feature allows you to design one survey, displayed in multiple languages, and extract survey data in one report.

Use this option to appoint images to your survey questions and answers. Images can link to specific URLs, opening the web page upon clicking the image. This option is useful for displaying pictures of products, concept drawings, and samples.

Attach a sound file to any question or answer.

Attach a video file to any question or answer.

Use this option to place answer options either in horizontal or vertical layout.

Use this option to upload your own customized survey navigation buttons.

Use this option to position image relatively to question.

Enables advanced survey layout customization.

Use this feature to add page breaks or define sections, making the survey more user-friendly.

Divide your survey into intuitive sections, write an introduction or give additional descriptions and instructions using this text only feature.

Provide respondents with the ability to select one from a few answers choices. Additionally, there is a text field option, allowing the respondent to manually type in an answer or comments.

Provide respondents with the ability to select one or more options from a list of checkboxes. You can set parameters that require the respondent to make a certain number of selections. Additionally, there is a text field option, allowing the respondent to manually type in an answer or comments.

Obtain respondent feedback on various statements or evaluate various products or services by selecting a preset scale from our library or by designing your own.

When using the 'Rate along a scale' question type, use this feature to prevent respondents from selecting the same rating more than once.

Provide respondents with the ability to select one from a dropdown list of many answer choices. This question type is extremely useful when the list of answer choices is long, (such as country, language, etc.).

Provide respondents with the ability to select one or more options from a few answers choices. This question type is useful for short lists of choices and for selecting more than one response.

Provide respondents with the ability to type one or more individual lines of text. This question type is useful for gathering user profile information.

Create custom formatting rules that require your respondents to type an answer that meets certain requirements. This question type is useful for making sure data entry is a number, number within a range, e-mail address, date, etc.

Provide respondents with the ability to type unlimited free-form text. This question type is useful for gathering additional information or user comments.

Allow respondents to enter numerical values and see the total sum of all values entered. This question type is useful for controlling total sum values, such as percentages, that in some cases should add up to 100%.

Ask respondents to choose between items to indicate which is most preferred. This question type allows you to obtain preference from your respondent by providing a list of compared items that narrows down partiality, even when the respondent is unsure of preference.

Use the 3D Matrix to obtain feedback from respondents, on different attributes associated with a product or service, at the same time. This question type allows you to gather information by requiring respondents to provide feedback using numbers, text, checkboxes, scales and drop-down boxes for each attribute.

Use our Design Wizard to select question types, compose question text, edit answer choices and apply 'advanced features', (such as answer randomization, setting 'E-mail Alerts', adding images etc.).

Copy questions from an existing survey in your account or from the question library into any new survey.

Use this option to request or entice a respondent to answer a voluntary question.
When this option is set, the responded receives a prompt, upon submitting the survey, to answer this question (if left blank); however, the respondent can still choose to skip the question.

Set this option to make a question mandatory.

Set this option to hide a question from respondents.

Add automatic numbering to your survey questions.

User-friendly buttons enable you to move any question up or down within your survey.

Use this option to define question ordering for your survey. There are three options: unchanged order, random order, or randomly order the selected questions only.

Randomize or rotate question answers each time a new respondent takes the survey.

Sort respondent answers in either ascending or descending order.

Define the field width for single line text boxes.

Select format validation rules for data entered by respondents. This feature allows you to require field formatting for answers that are decimal numbers, percentages, currency, e-mail addresses and other standard formatting types.

Define how your answer options display, top to bottom or left to right, and set the number of spaces between items (in the latter case).

Use this unconditional transition to direct all respondents to the same question after clicking the 'Next' button in a survey.

Use this conditional transition to direct respondents to the next question based on their answer (or answers) to the current question.

Use this conditional transition to direct respondents to the next question based on their answer to question(s) asked earlier in the same survey.

Use this conditional transition to direct respondents to the next question based on the amount of points scored when answering questions earlier in the same survey.

Use this conditional transition to direct respondents to the next question based on their answer to a particular question or to the previous question(s). This logic checks for the selection of particular answers in questions.

Use the Piping feature to extract a response from a previous question and insert it into a following question or into one of the answer options of a following question.

Branding with your logo gives your survey a professional feel.

Change the style of the survey navigation buttons or upload custom-designed buttons.

Add a custom footer, such as copyright information, that appears at the bottom of every survey page.

Add an indicator so your survey respondents can monitor their progress.

Define your preference for users navigating to previous pages using the back button feature.

Use the color palette to create a survey with a color scheme that mirrors your branding efforts.

Customize your survey text elements, like survey title, questions and answers, by changing font types, sizes, colors and alignments.

Customize the background color for various survey elements, such as the survey pages, question lines and answer lines.

Use HTML to format the appearance of your questions and answers.

Use your own Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to apply a customized layout scheme and style to every element of your survey.

Use default or customized multi-level folders to store and organize your surveys.

Once created, you can test your survey and run a sample report. This allows you to preview the survey layout and design, make changes to questions and answers and to test the voting process.

Select the CTR (click through rate) option to display how many times a survey has been opened and completed, with the resulting ratio representing response rate.

Use this advanced feature to convert survey questions and answer choices to PDF format. Once converted, your survey can be printed and distributed.

Use this tool to setup automatic e-mail alerts to team members, respondents or yourself when a specific response to a question is selected by the respondent.

Use this feature to pre-populate survey fields with imported data, corresponding to the respondent, which was collected in a different web form (such as e-mail address).

Set the dates and times you want your survey activated and deactivated.

Set a survey quota that automatically stops the survey upon reaching a predefined number of responses.

Designate a limited number of respondents or block respondents to additional questions based on previous answers. This option is useful for generating a representative sampling.

Set a time limit for respondents to complete the survey. Once the time limit is reached, the survey is automatically submitted.

Automatically display a customized thank you note, or final information to respondents, once the survey is submitted.

Use this option to show respondents a summary of their results upon submitting the survey.

Use this option to show respondents a summary of all results upon submitting the survey.

Set this option to redirect the respondent to your website or another specified URL upon submitting the survey.

Automatically send the respondent a customized e-mail upon submitting the survey.

Survey respondents are uniquely identified using multiple mechanisms, including cookies, IP addresses, respondent e-mail address and special respondent ID's.

Prevent respondents from making changes to their survey after it is submitted.

Allow respondents to come back and make changes to their survey after it is submitted. This action deletes original responses and replaces them with the new ones.

Restrict or allow multiple respondents to submit surveys from the same computer.

Distribute your survey, via e-mail, to e-mail addresses you specify. This feature allows you to compose an e-mail, define the distribution list and set anonymity.

Distribute and display your survey within the body of an e-mail message. This feature allows respondents to take and submit the survey directly from their e-mail application.

Display your survey in a pop-up window for each visitor or for every certain numbered visitor to your website. This feature can monitor IP addresses of voters, consequently controlling duplicate responses.

Provide a link to your survey on your website.

Display your survey on any page of your website.

Choose to launch your survey, using multiple distribution methods, at the same time. This feature allows you to view all results in a combined form.

Using this option, each respondent receives an e-mail invitation with a unique link to your survey. The survey URL begins with the Key Survey domain name.

Allows you to generate a unique link, protected with individual password, for each survey taker.

The Master Link is the actual URL of your survey. This URL can by copied and pasted onto your website; however, using this general survey link generates responses that are anonymous.

Using this link option hides the Key Survey domain name inside the survey link and replaces it with the IP address of our server.

Use this method to create an e-mail distribution list for your survey, by manually typing a list of e-mail recipients.

Use this method to create an e-mail distribution list for your survey by importing an existing text file of e-mail addresses.

Use this feature with the "Bulk e-mail Address Upload" to import additional information on your respondents. Imported information can be used to pre-populate survey answer fields.

Export contact records from MS Outlook and import them into the Key Survey address book.

Distribute your survey via e-mail to addresses saved in your Key Survey address book.

Validate e-mail addresses, both typed-in and imported from a file, before attempting distribution.

Create and send an e-mail reminder to all recipients of the survey immediately or on a specified date and time.

Create and send an e-mail reminder to recipients, who have not completed the survey, on a specified number of days after the survey launch.

Execute a test e-mail before launching your survey, to e-mail addresses you have entered manually, selected from your address book or imported for bulk distribution.

Send your e-mail invitation in plain text, without HTML or any special formatting beyond the most basic numbers and letters.

Use HTML elements to design and compose your e-mail invitation.

Compose an e-mail invitation that is automatically personalized by inserting respondent data (from previous imports) into the e-mail body text.

Provide an 'opt-out' option in the e-mail, which removes recipients from future mailing lists.

Designate a custom name and e-mail address to appear in the "From" field of the survey e-mail invitation.

Specify an e-mail address for forwarding all undelivered e-mail messages.

Specify an e-mail address for forwarding all respondent reply e-mails.

Allows to detect the type of bounced emails, export them to a CSV or Excel file, or remove them from the distribution list.

Set an e-mail priority level of either "normal" or "high" for the survey invitations.

Use the e-mail 'Attachment' field to attach additional documentation to your survey invitation e-mail.

Capture e-mail addresses for all respondents who completed and submitted the survey. Separately view all respondents who have yet to complete the survey.

Set this option to turn the respondent e-mail-tracking feature off. With this option, all survey responses are anonymous.

Use this feature to allow respondents to take the same survey (distributed via our e-mail system) several times. You can distinguish survey results using a unique code and other attributes.

Set this rule to allow your survey to be mailed to the same e-mail recipient multiple times.

Review survey distribution statistics, including recipient e-mail addresses, e-mail status, date and time of distribution and graphs displaying voting statistics.

Review survey completion statistics and manage respondents. See a list of all respondents who completed the survey (and when) or respondents who did not complete the survey.

Use this option to view delivery information about the e-mail invitations, such as delivery status and time e-mails were sent.

Review a summary and totals from all respondents participating in your survey.

Review the summary and totals from a specific respondent participating in your survey.

Use this option to sort respondents in report by date when voting started.

Create several customized reports using the data collected from a single survey.

Review summary reports on both completed and incomplete surveys.

Review summary reports on all partially completed surveys.

Setup levels of security using report filters and user passwords to customize report access.

Use this feature to activate and deactivate the report status from "preview mode" to "closed".

Give your report a title or add a custom description.

Use this feature to edit survey results in respondent records.

Automatically import survey responses from those respondents who took the survey on paper and combine the results with those obtained online.

Use this feature to delete respondent's results from your survey report.

Add internal notes or comments to individual survey responses.

Use this feature to hide columns containing respondent e-mails or other unique identifiers while exporting your survey results to Excel, PDF or while in 'report by respondent' mode.

Use this option to identify each respondent by his or her unique respondent ID in the report results.

Use this option to set passwords for viewing online reports.

Define your report output to include or exclude certain survey questions.

Use this option while defining report output to include questions the respondent skipped.

Enable or disable your company logo at the top of your report.

Customize your reports by adding text, images and using formulas.

Create multiple page reports by inserting user-defined page breaks.

Add a customized report header and footer.

Use this advanced feature to define (apply filters to) and customize your report output. Using this feature, your reports display specific survey data to suit your business needs.

Use this advanced feature to apply complex filtering to your reports. For example, you can create a report that displays output based on a specific question response or the date and time a survey was submitted.

Use this feature to compare survey responses. Standard crosstab tables are generated based on responses to specific questions. Advanced crosstab tables are generated based on different respondent groups, (as previously defined by your organization).

Setup security on report results by temporarily limiting access on a user-by-user basis.

Use this feature to add labels to your report questions and answer choices. You can filter responses, set values for statistics, insert time series tables and graphs and select statistical quantities using these labels.

Assign numerical values to the answer choices. These values replace corresponding answer choices when you export your report to SPSS or Excel.

Use this advanced feature to expand text responses when converting your report to PDF.

Use this advanced feature to select the statistical quantities to use in the report. The use of statistical quantities allows you to estimate the trends in the survey results more precisely.

Customize your report to hide certain results, based on the number of responses received.

Use this feature to define a set period of time, with a selected interval, where users will be given the ability to view the response statistics.

Create a table or graph in your report to shows results of significance testing.

This default format displays your report in HTML format. HTML is convenient for browsing, viewing summary graphs and individual text responses.

Use this export feature to convert your summary report to PDF format. PDF is a universal format that allows others to print and distribute your report as needed.

Use this export feature to convert your individual report to PDF format. PDF is a universal format that allows others to print and distribute your report as needed.

Use this feature to export the report's contents into a PowerPoint slide presentation.

Use this feature to export your survey results to an Excel file (.xls) or a comma-separated file (.csv).

Use this advanced feature to export your survey results into SPSS.

Allows to export unique survey link along with survey results.

Display a link directly to the report, which can be opened at any time.

Define an e-mail distribution list and include the link to your report in the body of the e-mail.

Define distribution list and send the report in the body of the e-mail.

Set up a date trigger to e-mail a link to your report on a specified date and time or on a reoccurring date and time.

Set up a trigger that e-mails a link to your report, or the actual report itself, each time your receive a new response to the survey, over a set period of time.

Use this feature to secure your survey with individual passwords for each participating respondent.

Use this feature to set a password for viewing specific online reports.

Use this advanced feature to secure your survey with a password intended for a group of respondents.

Set this security option to hide respondent passwords (replaced by asterisks) in the individual report output.

Use this advanced feature to secure your survey data by encrypting it. Using the Key Survey application online, all your account information is protected by 128-bit encryption to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your business.

Use this advanced feature to secure your report data by encrypting it. Using the Key Survey application online, all your account information is protected by 128-bit encryption to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of your business.

Design a survey in any language, including Asian characters.

Provide your respondents with the ability to select a specific language for displaying and taking a survey.

Survey alerts appear in the language selected.

Customize your survey buttons with the appropriate language text.

Review Summary reports that combine results from surveys (in all languages), displayed in your default language.

Set a time limit for the examination and assign point values for all questions.

Survey is automatically submitted once the time limit is reached.

Review the total point score for each respondent based on the point values assigned to each question.

Automatically import exam responses from those respondents who took the exam on paper and combine the results with those obtained online.

Also called the Teacher/Student survey.Use this survey type to create one teacher profile survey that is linked (through a shared, unique "profile code") to multiple student surveys. Only those respondents (or students), who have the proper profile code (or 'password'), can take the survey.

Use the unique "profile code" to generate a report that filters student exam results based on the teacher profile.

Use your own domain name or IP address in your survey link. This feature keeps the Key Survey domain name invisible to the user.

Use your own domain name or IP address in your report link. This feature keeps the Key Survey domain name invisible to the user.

Create customer satisfaction, employee feedback surveys, application forms, online tests, and more quickly and easily. The Basic subscription includes a bank of 2,000 completed surveys which may be used over the course of the year.

Features like workflow alerts, advanced design and analytic tools offer you greater capability and flexibility. The Premium subscription includes a bank of 10,000 completed surveys which may be used over the course of the year.

The most advanced subscription option. The same easy-to-use Key Survey software with advanced logic, group security options, e-mail reminders and more. The Professional subscription includes a bank of 10,000 completed surveys to use over the course of the year.