Automatic fill in of information

[meredith conover williams]

Hello all,

Is there a way to have skylight automatically fill in some fields of
information, based on a previous answer?

For example, if you were assessing a student, and you entered their
name in the beginning. Could that name be generated into later
questions? If someone entered my name, Meredith Williams, could a
future question ask, "Did Meredith act professionally in her
interactions with students?"

Thank you so much for your time,

Meredith Williams

[Ehrmann,Stephen]

If you have a two stage survey (Nils Peterson has called this "using a survey to make a survey") you can do that. The data from the first survey can be used to create respondent pools for the second. (You'd have one-person respondent pools.) But, unless things have changed recently, Skylight has no way to do that magic while a person is taking a survey.

Steve Ehrmann
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[meredith conover williams]

Okay, thank you!

On Nov 4, 4:39 am, "Ehrmann,Stephen" <sc...@drexel.edu> wrote:
> If you have a two stage survey (Nils Peterson has called this "using a survey to make a survey") you can do that. The data from the first survey can be used to create respondent pools for the second. (You'd have one-person respondent pools.)  But, unless things have changed recently, Skylight has no way to do that magic while a person is taking a survey.
>
> Steve Ehrmann
> **********************

> Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D.    ehrm...@drexel.edu

> Assoc. Clinical Prof., Learning Technologies
> Sr. Coord for Special Projects, Office of the Provost
> Main Building #308
> 240-606-7102 (m)
> 215-571-3804 (o)
> Blog:http://sehrmann.blogspot.com/
>
> To see when I'm free and make an appointment with me at a time that works for both of us:http://tungle.me/sehrmann
> ________________________________________

> From: skylightkb-...@googlegroups.com [skylightkb-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meredith conover williams [meredithlwilli...@gmail.com]

[Nils Peterson]

Further down this thread, Steve Ehrmann suggests that "survey to make
a survey" which we blogged about here
http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/survey-to-make-a-survey/

The key if you try this is to have a very solid idea of how you map
the data that comes out of the first survey into the metadata that
creates respondent pools in the second survey

When I've done it I found I needed to carefully clean the data from
the first survey -- if a respondent leaves blank fields, it can make
problems in the second survey.