1. Introduction to Lime Survey
TLC workshop presented by:
Julie Rao
Office of Institutional Research

2. Objectives of Workshop
Discover what your needs are
Show you how to get started in Lime Survey
Provide an overview of Lime Survey capabilities
How to use different question types
Branching capabilities
Token tables versus open surveys
Provide opportunity for hands on practice
Build a community of Lime Survey users
Build a community of Lime Survey users

3. Limitations of Workshop
Self taught Lime Survey user
Interest in surveys of specific groups
Background in survey research
Stop me if use terms you don’t understand
Have not used analysis tools in Lime Survey
Presentation will be posted to IR wiki space for your reference
By self taught, a lot of trial & error; had help from students
Lime gives me ability to set up who gets the survey but still be anonymous
I don’t learn multiple ways of doing things; I do my analysis in SPSS, so I have not explored analysis tools in Lime survey
Also means I don’t know a lot about Google survey & how Lime compares
Morale of story: Please accept I won’t have all the answers.

4. Workshop Agenda Introduction & need sharing
Overview of Lime Survey capabilities – start to finish
How to use different question types
Branching capabilities
Token tables versus open surveys
Exporting data from Lime Survey
Hands on practice
Will be going back & forth between PP & Lime Survey to demonstrate how to do things.
Want to make this work for you, so please stop me to ask specific questions; reserve the right to stop questions to try to preserve time for practice
Let’s get started by going around table, introducing self and saying what hope to learn from workshop, if you’ve used web surveys before or if you have used Lime Survey before.

5. Why it’s worth it for me Ease of exporting data
Can set up question names & answer categories in the survey
Personalized invitations with URL embedded
Reminder wording saved & only goes out to non completers
Documentation & user forum
There is a larger community of Lime users out there as a resource – do we want to build our own group within Geneseo?

6. Getting started Wiki -> CIT -> Self Help -> Survey Tools
Lime Survey – Getting Started
Overview, link to documentation
Lime Survey – Creating a Survey
Walk through basic survey creation
URL to access Lime Survey

7. Sensory Overload!!! Hierarchy of features organized by level
Similar features for each level of survey
Survey description appears at top of survey, can also be added to
Has features may not have thought of
No one says have to use all capabilities
Cadillac compared to Corvair
They are there if you need them - nice to grow into them

8. Types of Lime Survey Questions
Commonly Used
List (radio)
Array
Gender
Yes/No
Multiple Short Text
Huge free text
Specialized
Array (Numbers)
Array (Texts)
Array (dual scale)
Upload files
If you did the sample survey I sent, you saw all the different types of questions. Once training is completed, I will give you access to the sample survey. Please make a copy of the survey to have for your use in testing. Can look at different qnn types – I often refer to other surveys
Common/Specialized questions types
Truly Cadillac of survey software – GPS coordinates.
Dazzling display of buttons & features!

9. Gotchas! Watch out for levels Multiple choice = select all that apply
Make sure you are clicking delete question & not Question Group
Multiple choice = select all that apply
List-radio is generally what want for single response close ended questions
In descriptions & s, use HTML coding to maintain paragraphs
Only survey owner can set permissions-> you create survey then have students do data entry of questions
When loading *.csv file for token table, variable names must be lower case
Pro & cons of having similar menu items – when deleting questions sometimes find mouse over delete Question Group icon!! Yikes!
Multiple choice = multiple responses
<br> for paragraph break
Who creates the survey controls the survey permissions; always create the survey then have student worker do data entry of questions.
When loading *.csv file for token table, variable names must be lower case – do not capitalize the first letter of the variable name or else the file won’t load.

10. Using Lime Survey
Switch over to software to demonstrate survey setup, icon meanings

11. Collected Data . . . Now What do I do?
Exporting data out of Lime Survey
Exploring analysis built ins
Demonstrate exporting data into SPSS

12. Questions?
Before we move the hands on portion of our program, do you have questions about anything I covered?

13. Trying out Lime Survey software
Using Lime Survey to set up a web survey