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How To Conduct Surveys With WatuPRO

WatuPRO is a quiz plugin but it’s also perfect for running surveys. A survey is essentially a quiz that doesn’t give specific result / outcome to the user but presents the admin with the data of the user’s answers.

The most basic concepts are shown in the video and explained in more details in the post below.

Here is what you need to do to run a survey with WatuPRO:

  •  Mark the questions as “survey” questions. This is done with a checkbox on the Add / Edit Question page saying “This is a survey question. This will ensure no green / red checkmark will be shown if you decide to show user’s answers on the “final screen”. You can also use the mass-edit functions in your Manage Questions page to turn multiple questions into survey questions at once.
  • Don’t create grades. Nothing stops you to create grades but typically surveys do not grade the user’s performance.
  • View the results. You can then view, export, etc all the answers of the respondents. More information here.

The above is enough to run functional survey. However there are several tools that can make surveys created with WatuPRO even better:

The Reporting Module

See a short demo survey that uses the Reporting Module.

If you include the Reporting module with your WatuPRO purchase you’ll be able to see a lot more structured data and run data analytics on the survey responses.

The cumulative stats per question will show you how many respondents have selected each option of each question. If the question is not labeled as a survey type and has correct & incorrect states, you’ll also see this information.

stats per question

Cumulative stats per question

Follow the link to full details to get to the page that gives you detailed list of everyone’s answers, which can also be exported to CSV.

The stats per category and tag is very useful for quantitative questions because it will show cumulative points collected in each category, and again correct/incorrect percentages if the question has such characteristics:

Stats per category and tag

Stats per category and tag

The super powerful cross tabulation analysis turns WatuPRO into a real scientific tool for running insightful data analysis on any survey:

Cross tabulation analysis

Cross tabulation analysis

Learn more about cross-tabulation analysis here.

The poll-like shortcodes enabled by the Reporting module let you also present structured %-based data for every question to the user. Example here. Obviously you can use them to also run simple one-question polls.

poll shortcode example

The Likert Scale Survey Maker

If you want to run a likert scale survey we have a free helper plugin that will make your work so much easier. It makes adding a lot of survey questions at least ten time faster than via the standard way and predefines the quiz settings to be most appropriate for a survey. Don’t worry, all the questions and settings are then editable just like in any quiz made with WatuPRO.

User Groups in WatuPRO

User groups in WatuPRO can help you organize your users, give access to quiz categories, filter the results, have multiple companies test their own users inside the same installation and even with the same tests, and so on.

Manage Groups

There is no limit to the number of groups you can create. Let’s have a look at the User Groups page:

We will discuss the cheъkbox at top that allows you to use WP roles instead at the later this article.

The screen for creating user groups is very simple – the group only needs a name. Once the group is created you can mass assign users to it using the mass-assign link, or go to each individual profile from your main Users page and assign groups:

It’s also possible that one or more groups get automatically assigned to everyone who signs-up. You can also select the option that allows users to manually select what group they want to be in at the time of registration.

Access To Quizzes

One of the primary purposes of user groups is to control the access to quizzes. The easiest way to do it is to restrict specific quiz categories so they can be accessed only by some user groups:

This is very handy if your site handles different subjects, sell access to membership plans, etc.

Paid Tests

If you have the Intelligence module for WatuPRO you are also able to create paid tests. User groups can be used here as well to allow some selected users to access a paid test for free:

Reporting / View Results

When viewing test results you can filter them by user group:

Managing Quizzes and More (Intelligence Module)

User groups are very useful if you want to have teachers or other kinds of managers in the site which have their own groups of students / quiz takers. From WatuPRO Settings page you can enable their user role to manage tests. Then go to “Fine tune these settings” link and restrict their activity by user group:

Selecting the checkbox “Apply user group / user role category restrictions” means that the editor will be able to view and approve results only for quizzes in categories that are allowed to their own user group.

Using WP Roles

We mentioned this option at the beginning. It allows you to use the user roles created by WordPress instead of WatuPRO’s own user groups. In the same way you could restrict quiz categories to user groups, you will be able to do it to user roles instead. You will be able to allow selected user roles to take paid quizzes for free, and so on.

This is sometimes useful when your site is organized around different user roles by other plugins – for example sites with different memberships often use WP user roles to organize them.

Compact Format Questions in WatuPRO

From version 6.4.4 the “Display as compact format” option in WatuPRO has two versions:

The difference between the old version 1 (default) and the new version 2 is best seen on this image:

Version 2 works very similar to the multi-column design of the questions but has no fixed number of columns and the choices are left aligned instead of spread equally on the whole width of the quiz area.

Version 3 added in WatuPRO 6.5.3.5 will be a mix of the two: question at left and answers floating at right as much as the space allows.