Working With Answer Choices

An answer choice is an option presented to answer a question on a survey.

From the Settings page, click “Response Choices” and make sure the “Answer Choices” tab is active. Use this window to view and work with existing answer choices. A group of answer choices is used to make up an answer response group.

Each time new surveys are published, all questions including relevant answer response groups and answer choices are snapshotted. So any changes made won’t affect earlier iterations of the answer choice which may have been used on previous assessments.

Individual answer choices can only be removed if they are not currently assigned to an answer response group.

Rather than individually adding answer choices, you can upload a CSV of them. Use the following format:

Field number	Field name	Meaning	Required?

Field number	Field name	Meaning	Required?
1	text	actual text of the answer choice	yes
2	code	unique identifier for the answer choice	yes
3	multiplier	this value multiplied by the question value gives the score for this answer	yes
4	description	additional details to provide more information if the user needs help on this choice	no