Qualtrics is a web-based survey and data collection tool for creating and conducting online surveys. It can be used to conduct research, departmental surveys, academic surveys, etc.

Access is available, at no charge, to all current faculty, staff and students at Colorado State University.  The enterprise license is funded and maintained by the Division of Information Technology.

Qualtrics Handbook of Question Design is a short introduction to designing a quality survey to increase response rates and help ensure valid data.

Qualtrics Handbook of Question Design introduces key best practices for question design along with the theoretical and empirical rationale behind those best practices. Follow best practices and more to design questions that will enable respondents to give their best data.  Survey data are only as good as the questions that generate them. It’s important to understand best practices for question design along with the theoretical and empirical rationale behind those best practices.  The recommendations made in this guide are based on a large academic literature about question design in survey methodology along with evidence for best practices that we have discovered at Qualtrics.