Guides: Collect Data With a Survey: Using Qualtrics: Qualtrics Resources

Qualtrics guides

George Mason University Libraries: Qualtrics Guide
Short videos to help you learn Qualtrics in an hour (requires you to sign into your Qualtrics account).
Syracuse University Libraries: Qualtrics Guide
Extensive help guide that includes video tutorials, an accessibility guide, and numerous special topic walkthroughs.
Kent State University Libraries: Qualtrics Tutorials
This guide contains practical tutorials for using the Qualtrics online survey platform for research. Most tutorials assume a basic familiarity with Qualtrics.

Statistics Canada: Survey Methods and Practices
This publication shows readers how to design and conduct a census or sample survey. It explains basic survey concepts and provides information on how to create efficient and high quality surveys. It is aimed at those involved in planning, conducting or managing a survey and at students of survey design courses.
Statistics Canada: Questionnaire Design
This guide teaches how to design effective survey questionnaires, focusing on clear wording, and logical flow to ensure accurate and meaningful data collection.

Your Qualtrics Expert (YouTube channel)
Former Qualtrics employee covering common questions, features, and errors.
Dr. E Research - Qualtrics (YouTube playlist)
9 short videos (approximately 1.5 hours total).
Syracuse University Libraries - Qualtrics Workshop (YouTube playlist)
6 session recordings (approximately 5 hours total).
Harvard Library - Getting Started with Qualtrics
Learn to set up, build, test, and share surveys in Qualtrics.
Harvard Library - Advanced Qualtrics
Covers tips, question types, reporting, and tagging in Qualtrics.
Stony Brook University DoIT Training – Qualtrics (YouTube playlist)
1 webinar, 9 very short specific tutorials and 6 longer ones; see especially “Creating and Downloading a Report: Basics.”

The following topics are covered on the Qualtrics XM Community's 2-minute Tips playlist. The list below is organized by topic with recommended videos listed below.

Qualtrics Basics:
- Adding Instructions to a Survey - Text/Graphic, Multiple Choice, and Text Entry Questions
- Question Numbers (which will become Variable Names)
- Display Logic & Skip Logic
- Response Requirements - Validation, especially for multiple response and text entry questions.
- Survey Preview - Allows you to skip validation
Versioning & Publishing
- Survey Versions
- Publish Your Survey
- Undoing Mistakes
- Importing & Exporting Surveys (to PDF, Word, or QSF files, not for Data
- Compose & Distribute Emails via Qualtrics
- Sharing a Qualtrics Survey
Special Features
- Survey Translation
- Accessible Survey Design - Question types, Alt Text, ExpertReview
- Add Free Response Options ("Other")
- Calendar Picker Question
Survey Flow & Customized Wording
- Carry Forward Choices
- Loop & Merge - Repeat a block of questions
- Piped Text
- Query Strings

Data & Analysis Tab Tutorials (YouTube playlist)
5 video playlist (approximately 13 minutes) contains the following videos: Data & Analysis Overview, Filtering Survey Responses, Bucketing Variables, Formula Variables, and Concatenate & Coalesce Variables.