Monthly Archives: December 2014

Likert Scale Survey Maker for WatuPRO

This is a new free addon for the quiz maker plugin WatuPRO.

The plugin allows you to create Likert scale surveys really quick. It also includes a couple of shortcodes to display the survey answers to the user in a bar chart.

Download the plugin: watupro-likert (version 0.8, 16 KB)

How Does It Work

The plugin creates a regular WatuPRO quiz with all questions marked as survey questions and automatically adds all the answers. It allows you to add many questions quickly and automatically adds all answers for the Likert scale. It’s a tremendous time saver for creating such type of surveys.

After activating the plugin you will see a new link under your WatuPRO menu: “Likert scale survey”. Have a quick look at the options:

likert

The page allows you to create up to 8 questions at one and then add more and more with the same settings (scale etc). Or change the scale for the next set of questions.

There are 5 scales supported: Agreement, Importance, Frequency, Likelihood, and Custom. All settings are editable.

Once the survey is created you will be directed to Edit Quiz page to fine-tune and publish the quiz. You can of course then edit the questions, add media, etc just like with every WatuPRO quiz.

The Bar Chart

To display the bar chart you need minimum WatuPRO version 4.6.7.8 because this is the version from which survey questions do not require the points assigned to them.

The bar charts are added via shortcodes (the survey maker can automatically add them for you). Here is example of a chart by category:

likert-chart

The table will follow the table style definitions of your theme. If you want to style it, it has CSS class “watupro-likert-chart”. The color of the bars is currently hardcoded to #AAA but this will be improved soon.

If you have missed to add the chart when creating survey, you can add the shortcodes later:

[watuprolikert-barchart type="global"] for a global chart

[watuprolikert-barchart type="cats"] for multiple charts per question category

[watuprolikert-barchart type="averages"] for a global chart showing averages from everyone's answers

Likert Survey Compact Table

From version 5.8.2 of WatuPRO a new experimental feature is supported. It allows you to display your survey in a very compact table where questions are column headers and answers show only radio buttons or checkboxes.

You can activate the feature from Edit Quiz -> Advanced Settings tab:

When you activate it, the survey will be displayed as table. As example, check the survey at the bottom of this page. There are a few things to note:

  • Selecting this will reset the quiz to “All questions on a single page” even if you have selected different pagination.
  • The option “Answer to each question can be seen immediately by pressing a button” will be deactivated.
  • The plugin will automatically figure out if it has to display different tables with different headers if you have groups of questions with different likert scale in the same survey.
  • Surveys generally do not have correct or wrong answers so using the %%ANSWERS%% variable at the end of the quiz is not typical. If you do use it, answers will be displayed in standard format for quizzes and not as a table.
  • To avoid layout misplacement radio questions that are selected to be shown as drop-downs will be reset to standard radios. Multiple-choice questions selected to behave like flashcards will behave like standard checkbox groups.

Here’s an example of such survey:

 Very ImportantImportantModerately ImportantOf Little ImportanceUnimportant
1. How important is for you the price of a software product?
2. How important is the support?
3. How important is the design?
4. A random open-end question in the middle of the survey

 AlwaysFrequentlyOccasionallyRarelyNever
5. How often do you check documentation before contacting support?
6. How often do you check online demos before purchasing software products?

 

Arigato PRO Bridge to WooCommerce

This is a new free bridge for our WordPress mass-mailer and drip marketing software Arigato PRO.

The bridge has one very simple purpose: to let you automatically sign up users who buy products into associated mailing lists.

Download the bridge here: bftpro-woocom-bridge – version 0.5 (11 KB)

How To Use It

You can use this plugin either to tie-up purchasing products to mailing list signups or to directly sell access to mailing lists that you don’t want to give access for free. Here is how:

1. install and activate the plugin through the WP dashboard page (you must already have Atigato PRO)

2. Create or edit product in your WooCommerce store. Go to Attributes and create a custom attribute. its name must be bftpro. The value of the attribute must be the ID of the mailing list you want the user to be signed up for:

bftpro-woocom-product

How do you know the list ID? Easy – you can see it in your BroadFast PRO Mailing Lists page in the “Subscribe Form” column:

list-id

The number in the shortcode is the list ID. So in the picture above the list ID is 1.

That’s all. Now when someone pays for a product (or you manually approve order as paid in admin), their email and name will be added in the associated mailing list.

Paid Class Signup in Namaste PRO

From version 1.1.1 the PRO plugin for Namaste! LMS supports paid signup for a class / group. Configuration is really easy:

1. Make sure you have payment methods set up in Namaste! LMS Settings page

2. In Add / Edit Class page enter your price in “Charge X to sign up for this class” box. You need to have selected “Allow users to sign up for this class” checkbox first

3. Use the class “sigup shortcode” shown on the Manage Classes / Groups page. Publish it on a post or page and the paid class sign-up will be handled automatically.

That’s it.