Overview

Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, full-featured, web-based tool for creating and conducting online surveys. Qualtrics has a range of features to meet both simple and complex survey creation and distribution needs. Qualtrics can be used for many purposes:

  • Research, including experimental data collection, and random assignment
  • Teaching, including peer evaluations, quizzes with immediate feedback, lessons with branching, and midterm feedback
  • Administration, including program assessment, event evaluation, and feedback surveys
  • Forms such as applications, contact forms, and agreements, and the collection of uploaded files

Highlights

  • Guide beginners through creating a survey with the intuitive Survey Builder
  • Control where participants go and what they see in a survey using survey flow with branch, display, and skip logic functions
  • Select from a variety of question types or access a survey library with hundreds of templates which you can customize to meet your needs
  • Send and track participation invitations and reminders
  • Collect anonymized responses if desired
  • Trigger emails and thank you messages
  • Report on results, including basic graphs and tables that can be filtered, stylized, and shared
  • Export data to a variety of formats, including Excel, SPSS, PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Upload files
  • Collect data on a mobile device without access to the internet with offline surveys option

Getting Started

Integration into Canvas

This tool has been integrated, or requested for integration, into Canvas. Learn more about Learning Tools for Canvas.

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Intended Audience

Students
Instructors
Researchers
Staff & Departments

Cost

University-funded: no charge.

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Good Practices

Survey Design

See how to design a high-quality survey by understanding when to use specific question types, how to write questions, and how to format and organize the survey.
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Designing a high-quality survey can...

How-Tos

Qualtrics: Account Information

Create an Individual Account

  1. Read and agree to the Terms of Use. You can access the Terms of Use any time.
  2. Join the Qualtrics User Google Group.
  3. See Qualtrics Activate UofM Qualtrics...

See how to initiate an individual or group account, and migrate an existing account.

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Qualtrics FAQ's

Find answers to frequently asked Qualtrics questions.

How-Tos

Qualtrics: Get a Contact List

A contact list includes the names and email addresses of individuals to which a survey is sent. There are a variety of different ways to get a contact list. Below are some options recommended by the University....

Experts & Communities

UMN Qualtrics Users Google Group

Nearly 8,000 students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota are using Qualtrics for their projects. Connect with other users at the University of Minnesota and see how they are using Qualtrics.

Experts & Communities

The Office of Measurement Services (OMS)

OMS is the business owner of Qualtrics for the University and has a team of experts available to help bridge the gap between do-it-yourself and advanced level questionnaire design and survey programming.

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