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Thoughts about LimeSurvey, WordPress and otherLimeSurvey 6 theme
The developers at LimeSurvey are great. Nice guys and ladies. But they do not have a great resonance with design and usability. That is why I decided to extend the current Vanilla theme (based on Bootstrap). Because I needed a better theme. This is what I made of it....
Limesurvey: Style one question
Sometimes you need specific changes on only one question. For that you can add css to the question source of that question like this: Limesurvey "knows" that it should not show this code, but in stead it interpretes it, so you can style this question. But be aware, if...
LimeSurvey: where to begin?
LimeSurvey has a learning curve and when you dive in, you may think that it is much easier to start with SurveyMonkey or another commercial system. You are right. But .... LimeSurvey sometimes feels like the infamous Swiss Army knife with 1001 tools attached to it. It...
Responsive LimeSurvey 3 theme
LimeSurvey makes good software for surveys, but they make themes for displaying the surveys that need a lot of love before they look good. That is why we developed our own version of a base theme (but still based on LimeSurvey's Vanilla theme), so we have more...
5 point smiley question
Sometimes your survey needs something more than just text. Something that evokes a smile. Using a question theme this is possible. Tony Partner, the man behind Partner Surveys, made a 5 point smiley question theme, which can be found here. We made a fork of that,...
Scoring an array in LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey has a powerful way of getting scores from your responses when you use the Expression Script. A colleague researcher wanted to score an array. There are 15 subquestions and 5 answer options. 3 of the 15 subquestions need to be scored reversely. Afterwards a...
Quiz or assessment?
Building a quiz or assessment is not very difficult using LimeSurvey. Please visit our two language quiz based on the questionnaire of Hans Rosling, a famous Swedish professor on public health.You can download this survey (.lss file, prepared in LimeSurvey 3.x) ...
LimeSurvey: more details about your respondents
Surveys are intended to elicit answers from the respondent. But apart from answering questions there are also other ways a survey collects data: Time between sending invitation and starting to answer (when using invitation mechanism of LimeSurvey) Time needed to fill...
LimeSurvey course
In April I gave a LimeSurvey beginners course to a class of experienced survey designers (but not using LimeSurvey) of the Province of Antwerp in Belgium. Due to the Corona virus, I could not visit them, so the 1 day course was cut in three 2-hour online workshops,...
YOUR COVID-19 RISK
Today the Your Covid-19 Risk website, where you can assess the risk of catching and the risk of transmitting the Covid-19 virus went live on the Netherlands, as the first country in many to come. https://your-covid-19-risk.com/ The application was built by the...
LS Tip: Switching language during survey
Whenever a user switches the language during a survey, (s)he is presented the new language after that. So far, so good. But.... in the results table of LimeSurvey only the startlanguage is stored, not the language that you change to. We ran into this when someone in...