Additional Questions
In this article:
- Introducing Additional Questions.
- Setting up Additional Questions.
- Customizing Additional Questions.
- Viewing responses to Additional Questions.
- Testing and previewing a questionnaire containing Additional Questions.
FAQs
- How can I effectively use Additional Questions?
- Which platforms support Additional Questions?
- Which integrations support Additional Questions?
- What happens if a respondent doesn't answer every question?
- Can I require any of my Additional Questions?
- Will the Name and Email questions replace contact information I currently have?
- Does the Email question type include email validation?
- What does the Additional Questions experience look like on the Web platform?
- Where can I edit the "Tell us a bit more about why you chose..." question?
Introducing Additional Questions
The Additional Questions feature lets you add up to 10 questions following your initial CX score and comment queries.
Question types include:
- Free response
- Scale
- Select one option (multiple choice)
- Select many options (multiple select)
- Name (for capturing or updating a respondent’s name)
- Email (for capturing or updating a respondent’s email address)
Display your additional questions to every respondent or trigger specific questions based on the score selected on the initial CX question.
Learn more in this short introductory video! (And stay tuned for the tips at the end.)
Additional Questions are available at Premium plan levels. Visit our Pricing page for information.
Setting up Additional Questions
Additional Questions are specific to the distribution platform you select (ex. Email, Web, Link, iOS, Kiosk).
Follow these steps:
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- Click “Survey people” at the top of the Dashboard.
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- Click on the "Gear" icon to the right of the desired platform.
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- Click “Configure additional questions.”
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On the following page, select a "Question type" and customize your question.
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- After you’ve finished editing, click “Save question.”
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- Optional: Repeat for any other questions you’d like to add.
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- Choose “Turn on” to publish and go live with your additional questions. (Note: Click "Publish" after making subsequent edits in order to take your updates live.)
The "Gear" icon and the "Configure additional questions" command are available after you finish the initial setup of a platform.
In this example, setup HAS been completed for the Web and Link platforms. Setup has NOT been completed for Email, Kiosk, and iOS.
What does the "Publish" button do?
Updates will not go live until you press the “Publish” button. If you don't publish your changes, Delighted will continue showing the previous version of your questions.
What does "Filter questions" do?
The "Filter questions" option, seen on the left-hand side of the customization page, will help you quickly determine which questions are being shown to everyone—and which questions are only being shown to a segmented group (ex. Detractors or Promoters in an NPS survey).
Customizing Additional Questions
Customize your additional questions by:
- Randomizing question order.
- Randomizing answer choice order.
- Adding an “Other” text entry option.
- Reversing the scale.
- Adding conditional display logic.
Randomizing question order
To randomize the order in which your additional questions will appear, check the “Randomize question order” box from the Additional Questions page.
Mitigating survey fatigue
Longer surveys run a risk of dropping respondents midway through. Randomizing the order of your questions can mitigate this by driving a proportionate number of responses.
Randomizing answer choice order
Check the “Randomize option order” box on the edit question page to randomize your answer choices on both "Select one option" and "Select many options" questions.
If you’re also using an “Other” text entry option, “Other” is placed at the bottom of the list.
Adding an “Other” text entry option
By selecting “Other," you respondents will be able to enter their own unique answers in a text box.
Check the “Include an option for ‘Other’” box on the edit question page to add the “Other” text box answer choice to the bottom of the list.
Reversing the scale
In most cases, the highest number in a scale question will appear on the right, with the lowest number on the left (1 to 5). You may want to reverse this order (5 to 1). Not a problem! Simply designate the “Left score” and “Right score” (and associated labels) when setting up your Scale question.
Adding conditional display logic
Not all questions should be shown to all of your initial CX question respondents. To determine which score groups see a particular question, click “Change” next to “Who should see this question?” on the edit question page, and then:
- Check the box next to the score groups that should see the question
- Leave the box unchecked next to score groups that will skip the question
Viewing responses to Additional Questions
The "Additional Questions" icon appears on the top right-hand side of any Dashboard response card. The icon displays the number of additional questions that a respondent has answered.
To view the responses, click on the "Additional Questions" icon to expand the feedback. The responses will be nested under a section called "Additional answers" on the Permalink page. Additionally, when you export data from your Dashboard, the answers to your additional questions will be included allowing you to see and share these answers in a CSV format.
Head to the "Reports" tab and choose “Additional Questions" to view a report summarizing the responses. (Note: To learn more about the visualizations in this report, check out section 7. Reporting and Analysis in this Help Center.)
How do I filter my Dashboard based on Additional Questions?
To filter your Additional Questions, click the option to "Add a new filter" on the left-hand side of the dashboard. You can filter on any scale selection, multiple choice, or single choice question. (You can’t filter by open text responses.)
Testing and previewing a questionnaire containing Additional Questions
Since Additional Questions are added separately to each distribution platform, you'll need to test your extended questionnaire in each platform's testing environment individually.
To learn how it's done, click and explore each of the distribution platform(s) that you have deployed from this list:
- Testing and previewing Email platform surveys
- Testing and previewing Web platform surveys
- Testing and previewing Link platform surveys
- Testing and previewing Kiosk platform surveys
- Testing the SDK Platform — Previewing the SDK Platform
Additional questions are added to each platform independently of the others; ergo, you should preview and test each of your distribution platforms separately.
How do I effectively use Additional Questions in my questionnaire
Add a question with predefined answers
Comment rates looking a bit low? Consider including a question with a handful of predefined answers that are easy to answer quickly.
Add in another Free response question
If you need to ask more pointed questions (ex. "What's one new feature you'd like to see us offer?" or "Where can we focus our attention to improve your experience?") layer in Free response text questions!
Create your own scale
Use the "Additional Questions" feature to create your own scale questions! For example, it is easy to replicate a 5-point Likert scale as shown in the below image.
Capture contact information in anonymous surveys
If you're using the Link platform, you can still gather personal contact information for use in follow-up Email survey campaigns. Add the predesigned "Name" and "Email" Additional Question types to your survey flow and capture contact information voluntarily!
Which platforms support Additional Questions?
Additional Questions are available on all platforms except SMS.
Which integrations support Additional Questions?
All integrations that trigger surveys can support additional questions as part of the normal survey flow. The following integrations also support syncing data back to an external platform:
What happens if a respondent doesn't answer every question?
Delighted utilizes a feature called "Active Capture" to ensure that every question—as it is answered—will be collected, recorded, and displayed on your Dashboard.
Can I require any of my Additional Questions?
Not currently.
Will the Name and Email questions replace contact information I currently have?
Yes!
Say you import a list of people to be surveyed using the Email platform containing the recipient's name and email address. If a respondent then fills out the survey and enters a different name and/or email address, the updated Name and Email information will replace the previous records.
The updates will also be reflected on the Dashboard, as well as in the People tab.
Does the Email question type include email validation?
Yes!
The email question type looks for a valid email address format, including an '@' symbol, and a valid domain.
What does the Additional Questions experience look like on the Web platform?
A Web platform survey will pop up along the bottom of the page.
After a respondent submits their initial CX score and comment, any Additional Questions will move to the middle of the web page to help focus your respondents and increase response rates.
The web page itself will be blurred behind the survey.
Respondents can close a Web survey by clicking the 'x' button in the top right-hand corner or by clicking anywhere outside of the survey modal.
Once the final Additional Question is submitted, the Web survey will pop back down to the bottom of the page to display the "Thank you" message.
Where can I edit the "Tell us a bit more about why you chose..." question?
Although it may look like an additional question, the Free response comment question following the initial CX score selection (ex. "Tell us a bit more about why you chose [score]") is a default response page.
Edit this default comment question in the "Survey Customization" page by:
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- Selecting "Survey people."
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- Clicking the "Gear" icon next to the platform you want to edit.
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- Choosing "Customize appearance."
From there you can expand the "Comment page" header and make edits or even choose the option to skip the comment page altogether.
Read more about customizing each platform in section 4. Survey Customization in this Help Center.