ThoughtExchange version 7.3 is coming to you on Tuesday, May 7th @ 8 PM Pacific! In this update, we’re rolling out some exciting improvements, including a brand new Ranking Survey question type, the ability to make survey questions optional and skippable, and many more! 

School Climate survey templates

New survey question type: Ranking 

Optional/Skippable survey questions

Survey question name change

Multi-select Participation Group filters

Participant stats card

Interactive Web Reports: User-controlled filters

School Climate survey templates

Customers in Education now have access to the School Climate Survey templates, based on a rigorously tested, research-backed survey provided by the US Department of Education. 

Note: Access to the template will vary based on your account packages. Don't have access yet but want to request it? Reach out to your Customer Service representative today!

New survey question type: Ranking 

We’re excited to bring you the new Ranking survey question type! This new survey question type allows users to quickly drag and drop their answer options from a list of provided choices in order of their highest priority to lowest. 

Ranking Survey Question Type mini guide

Optional/Skippable survey questions

We’re introducing the ability to make survey questions optional and skippable upon popular demand! 

You can now decide if survey questions are optional or mandatory for participants to complete. Each survey question now comes with an ‘Answer required’ toggle. You can use this to make survey questions optional during participation.

When the ‘Answer required’ toggle is OFF for a survey question, it will appear as (optional) for participants. 

Conversely, when the ‘Answer required’ toggle is ON for a survey question, it will be displayed with an asterisk: 

Survey question name change

After this release, you will notice that the widely used Multiple choice and Checkbox options are gone. But fret not! They’re still there. We’ve renamed them for more clarity. 

• Multiple choice is now ‘Single select’

• Checkbox is now ‘Multiple select’

Note: Apart from the name change, there is NO change to these question types.

Multi-select Participation Group filters

With this release, you can now filter to multiple Participation groups in Results pages (except for the Advisor and Article pages), allowing for more detailed analyses of demographic groups in your surveys. 

Participant stats card

The Participant stats card is now available for all engagements! 

Previously available only on the survey analysis page for invite-only surveys, we’ve released the Participant stats card for all engagements, regardless of invitation type! This feature lets you see how many people have started and completed the survey portion of an engagement.

An example where every participant who started the survey and completed it: 

An example where only 50% of participants who started the survey completed it: 

Interactive Web Reports: User-controlled filter

In addition to the ability to pre-filter an Interactive Web Report, you can now share a report with filter controls for survey questions. This means that viewers can choose how they want to group or separate the results based on those survey questions. 

This functionality empowers participants to draw personalized insights from the results. With the ability to filter by questions such as school or team, they can better determine how the data relates to them, their needs, and their context, putting the power of interpretation directly in their hands.