How do I add questions to a survey?

Last reviewed · Part of Surveys and employee listening

The Questions tab is a section-grouped editor. Questions belong to sections (e.g. Leadership, Growth, Workload, Advocacy), and sections are what employees page through when answering.

Questions editor

Question types

Type Use it for
Instruction A block of text with no answer — section preamble.
Yes / No A simple binary.
Single choice Pick one from a list of options you define.
Multi choice Pick any number from a list.
Likert (5-point) Strongly disagree → Strongly agree. The workhorse of engagement surveys.
Scale 0–10 An eleven-point scale. Required for the eNPS question.
Short text One line of free text.
Long text A comment box.

Fields that matter

  • Question key — a stable short code (ENG_LEAD_01). This is what makes trends work. Two campaigns' scores are only compared when the key and the scale match. If you reword a question so its meaning changes, give it a new key — the system cannot detect rewording, and comparing the old score to the new one would be misleading.
  • Section name / order — grouping and paging.
  • Display as grid — renders the section's Likert questions as a single matrix instead of separate blocks. Compact and much faster to complete.
  • Required — the employee cannot move past the section without answering.
  • Favourable range — for scored questions, which answers count as "favourable". For a 5-point Likert this is normally 4–5. This is what the favourability percentages are computed from.
  • eNPS question — mark at most one question per campaign as the eNPS question. It must be a 0–10 scale. Promoters (9–10) minus detractors (0–6) gives the eNPS score.

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