Surveys with LimeSurvey

LimeSurvey is a free software that allows you to create and publish online surveys without any programming knowledge and to store the results in a database. Students or employees of JGU can use LimeSurvey for non-commercial purposes.

  1. Log in
  2. Assign Rights
  3. Survey Features
  4. Including Videos
  5. Deleting Surveys
  6. Delete Surveys that are no longer Needed
  7. Support
  8. Terms of Use
  9. Data Protection

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Assign Rights

  • In order to edit surveys together, it is possible to assign rights to more than one person.
  • The person responsible for creating the poll should contact elearning@uni-mainz.de directly.
    • For editing we need the ID of the survey and the account names of the people who are to be added as additional authorized persons.
    • Important: All accounts to be added must have logged in to Limesurvey before.
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Survey Features

  • Surveys can be either publicly accessible or made individually accessible to each participant using a "one-time only" token. It is completely web-based.
  • There are 28 different question types, which can be further customized using question attributes.
  • Data can be exported to Excel, SPSS or Stata
  • Images, movies and other multimedia content can be integrated.
  • Responsive design, i.e. the display automatically adapts to the device, e.g. PC, tablet or smartphone
  • Supports more than 80 different languages.
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Including Videos

You can include videos stored on JGU's Panopto video platform in your LimeSurvey surveys. Your advantage: Your videos will be stored only on the university's servers and not with any third-party providers.

    1. Log in to Panopto: https://video.uni-mainz.de/
    2. Go to the settings for that video and select Outputs from the menu on the left.
    3. Right click on View Podcast and select Get Link.
    4. Now go to Limesurvey and create your survey. At the point where you want to embed the video, click on the video icon.
Display of the video icon in your survey.

5.Copy the cached link into the Source Video box using Ctrl+V and confirm with OK. There is no need to change the default settings.

 

Copy the link into the input field Source video.

6.The video is at the desired location in your survey and can be played by your respondents.

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Deleting Surveys

Old surveys that are no longer used increase the amount of data.  Also because of data issues surveys should not remain on the server longer than necessary. Therefore, since winter semester 21/22, surveys will not be kept longer than 1 year.

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Delete Surveys that are no longer Needed

  1. Log in at: https://survey.zdv.uni-mainz.de/index.php/admin/authentication/sa/login
  2. Click Surveys - all surveys that you have permission to view will appear.
  3. Enter your username in the search box and click Search.
  4. Only surveys that you own will appear.
  5. Check the box next to the title of the survey you want to delete.
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, click Selected Surveys in the lower left corner, and then click Delete.
Survey list in LimeSurvey
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Support

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Terms of Use

  • The Limesurvey installation of the ZDV may only be used for research and teaching, commercial use is not permitted.
  • The system may only be used for surveys, any misuse is prohibited.
  • When using external content, copyright regulations must be observed.
  • The ZDV reserves the right to deactivate surveys in which compliance with the terms of use is unclear until clarification.
  • By creating a survey, you automatically agree to the terms of use!
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Data Protection

The organizer of the survey is responsible and liable for compliance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you have any questions, please contact the university's data protection administration.

 

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