Routing in scanning questionnaires
Routing is set up in a scanning questionnaire in the same way as other questionnaires. Further information on how to set up the routing rules can be found at Adding routing. By default, the Scanning Module follows the routing rules set up in the questionnaire. When a routing condition is met, any question that is […]
Calibrating your scanning questionnaire
Calibration is performed before the completed questionnaires are scanned. This ensures the accuracy of the scanning process. The calibration process requires you to mark four response boxes per page in the survey. These settings are saved and referenced when scanning the questionnaires. The boxes selected by Snap are normally the tick boxes that are closest […]
Publishing the scanning questionnaire
Click Publish on the Questionnaire toolbar. Once you have selected your printer, click the Publish button. This locks your questionnaire for scanning. DO NOT make any changes to the questionnaire once it has been locked for scanning. Once you have printed and distributed your survey, your completed questionnaires are ready to be scanned. Note. If […]
Checking the scanning design recommendations
Using a scanning validation property You can help improve character recognition when scanning in open responses by using patterns and settings. The following scanning validation options are available. Scanning Validation Option Application None The default setting. The scanning module attempts to identify the character or digit within the answer box. If the data cannot be […]
Formatting your scanning questionnaire
When designing a questionnaire which is to be scanned in, before printing, you may need to adjust the spacing so that it fits onto one page or an even number of pages (if printing duplex). There are a number of minor adjustments you can make in order to ‘tidy’ up the look and feel of […]
Designing your scanning questionnaire
The Scanning survey template is designed for scanning questionnaires and it is recommended that you use this for all your scanning surveys. This survey template also provides instructions at the start that will help your participants complete the questionnaire and improve the scanning accuracy. Add an image The new questionnaire created using the supplied Scanning […]
Setting up the online survey framework for scanning
Please check that you can successfully scan a page with the scanner you are planning to use before you start your survey. This makes sure that any problems you meet are not to do with the scanner set-up. The Survey Overview window opens when you first start Snap XMP Desktop. There are two types of […]
Planning your scanning survey
Scanning surveys are designed to be printed as paper questionnaires for your participants to complete and then once the responses are collected the Scanning module is used to scan the questionnaires directly to data responses in Snap XMP Desktop. The Scanning module can also be used to import image files of previously scanned questionnaires. The […]
Security settings for synchronization
If you have any problems synchronizing data between Snap XMP Online and Snap XMP Desktop check that the following security settings are applied to any firewalls or proxy servers.
Setting up a database link for group questionnaires
A group questionnaire is a questionnaire that you want your participant to repeat a number of times, once per subject. For example, a participant may be based in more than one office and they need to complete the questionnaire once for each office. The spreadsheet below shows how you can lay out the spreadsheet with […]