E-Results Viewer
Snap UpdatesNew features for Snap WebHost users
This month sees the release of a number of new features that will be of interest to those running Snap WebHost web surveys. These features are scheduled to be available as of Monday 7th May.
Snap WebHost: User Installable edition
Since its introduction with Snap 9 last year, our Web server-based interview and analysis management module, Snap WebHost has been available as a service from the Snap Surveys website. As of May 2007 Snap WebHost will also be available as a product that you can install on your own server (currently Windows servers running IIS). That means that you can maintain tight security control by keeping respondent data within your firewall, and you can brand your copy of Snap WebHost with your corporate identity.
To purchase a Snap WebHost product licence, contact your nearest sales office.
Panel Projects
The Panel Projects feature of Snap WebHost enables you to create multi-survey projects. The survey questionnaires can then be presented to members of a common pool of respondents (respondent panel).
As each panel member logs in to Snap WebHost (or clicks on a link in an invite email), they are taken to a page which shows a list of surveys available to them. When they select a questionnaire from the list, interviewing begins. When the interview is complete, replies for the questionnaire are recorded and the survey is removed from the list of those available to that respondent.
A useful aspect of Panel Projects is that the surveys within them are completely independent of one another. New surveys can be created and added to the Panel Project at any time. The only requirement is that the respondents for each survey in a Panel Project are all drawn from the same panel database.
The panel members may also be changed at any time.
All users of Snap WebHost are able to generate Panel Projects as part of the regular subscription.
Iterative Surveys
Snap WebHost Iterative Surveys may be used in circumstances where you want to repeat the same questionnaire, each time for a slightly different topic.
For example: you are conducting course appraisals. Each course consists of a number of taught modules and you want to gather student appraisals on each module. In the example, you would design the questionnaire to ask questions about all the modules, with separate routes for each module. The respondent (student) would begin the questionnaire by electing to answer for one of the available modules. That section of the questionnaire would display. After they complete responses for one module the questionnaire resumes at the start again but this time with the previously answered modules unavailable for selection. Eventually the respondent will complete the questionnaire once for each module.
Each iteration of the questionnaire creates a separate data case so each respondent can complete many cases. Analysis of results is therefore in terms of the survey topics - in the above example that would be student modules. It is easy to build tables and charts showing overall results by module.
To create iterative surveys you will need Snap 9 ProNet build 6 or later, available free for those with current support contracts from www.snapsurveys.com/updates.
Download full documentation as a PDF file here (600 kB).