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  1. Embed Audio in Your Survey

    The Audio Player element allows you to add audio that respondents can play as part of the survey. You can use audio in your surveys for any number of things!
  2. Embed Video in Your Survey

    The Video Player element allows you to add video that respondents can play as part of the survey. You can use video in your surveys for any number of things! Have your respondents rate their favorite quick video clip, test their foreign language com...
  3. Add Placeholder Text to Textbox and Essay Questions

    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...
  4. Convert Question Types

    When building a survey, you might realize that the question type you initially chose isn't quite the right fit or isn't collecting the data you were expecting.
  5. Verify Two Textbox Entries Match

    Verifying the entries in two textboxes match is a very common practice in surveys and web forms. It's a great method for ensuring the email address a survey respondent enters is correct and free of typos. set this up: Add textbox questions...
  6. Alphabetize Answer Options

    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.
  7. Administrative Questions

    Administrative questions are not visible to the respondent but are instead available to survey administrators via Individual Responses after the response has been submitted. You can include administrative questions throughout your survey and can...
  8. Allow Respondents to Dynamically Add Questions as Needed

    Check it out in an example survey ! Add a survey with this question to your account! Using SurveyGizmo's Add as Needed feature you can allow your respondents to answer a given set of questions repeatedly. In our example (right), t...
  9. Reporting Values

    A Reporting Value is an internal value that our system uses for your reports, exports, and logic that cannot be seen by your respondents. Reporting Values will be the same as your answer option ti...
  10. Limit Ranked Items in Ranking Questions

    If you prefer to gather the top 3 ranked items, you can do so by customizing the number of columns in your ranking questions. This trick works for Drag & Drop Ranking questions too!