Qualtrics
Overview
Qualtrics is a full-featured, web-based tool for creating and conducting online surveys. This tool is both easy to use and extremely powerful. Qualtrics enables users to do many kinds of online data collection and analysis including market research, customer satisfaction, and course evaluations. All WSU employees and students can create an Qualtrics account. Winona State's Qualtrics instance is located at: https://winona.edu/qualtrics.com. Do not use the free trial version at www.qualtrics.com.
Qualtrics Campus Use Policy
Winona State University has a Qualtrics licensing agreement for faculty, staff and students to create accounts. By default, all accounts are created with student-level permissions. These accounts will not be able to distribute surveys. Using Qualtrics for personal, commercial or other non-academic use is prohibited. Using Qualtrics for third-party, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations is not allowed.
Faculty, staff and students who wish to distribute surveys will need to have their accounts upgraded (see below). If a survey is for research purposes you must have approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for human research protection.
- Qualtrics Terms of Use
- Using Qualtrics Responsibly
- Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Private Data Protection
- Student Data Privacy
The Use of Human Subjects in Research
All surveys, no matter how small or specific, are subject to WSU Regulation 3.7 Policies and Procedures for the Use of Human Subjects in Research. The regulations define research as, “a systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge” and a human subject as, “a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains (1) data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or (2) identifiable private information.” Questions as to whether or not your survey constitutes human subjects research may be directed to the Human Protections Administrator, Bill Ayers (Maxwell Hall 161, 507-457-5519, bayers@winona.edu), or any faculty member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB). All faculty, students and staff conducting research involving human participants are required to submit a Protocol Request for WSU IRB Approval for review by the IRB prior to initiation of any such research. As of January 1, 2011, all protocol requests must be submitted through IRBNet.
Create your Account
Qualtrics allows you to create online surveys in support of your teaching, research, and studies with expected adherence to codes and ethics for survey research.
It is important that you create your Qualtrics account on http://WINONA.qualtrics.com site (WSU Licensed) and NOT on the Qualtrics main page.
In order for you to easily create an account, we provide a step-by-step instruction on how to create a Qualtrics account:
Learn how to use Qualtrics
Qualtrics has extensive documentation to learn the survey platform: Explore to Qualtrics Survey Platform. The following links can be used to specifically create and distribute surveys:
- Projects Overview
- Survey Overview
- Distributions Overview
- Data & Analysis Overview
- Reports Overview
- Contact List Overview
- Setting Up Actions Overview
Other Resources
- Use WSU's instance of Qualtrics at http://winona.qualtrics.com
- Changing your password
- Understanding Qualtrics Account Permissions