About survey topics and topic groups

A unique feature for the Effect IO software is how surveys and reports pages are defined as part of topics and topic groups. 

Topics and topic groups exists for multiple reasons. One of the reasons is that we really like standardization as it helps in improving the survey and data quality.

Another reason is that it makes running high-quality survey projects much simpler for project administrators, as they don't need to touch a survey editor with all its complexities.

A good analogy for topics and topic groups is Lego bricks and plate. The Topics are the bricks and topic groups are the Lego plate. 

You can assign one or many topics to one survey page. One topic can belong to multiple topic groups. 

This way, you can for instance build a work environment survey that has a "small" version and a "large" version.

In the "Small" topic group, you can for instance include a subset of topics and in the "Large" topic group, you can include all of the surveys topics.

It is also possible to set which of the topics that is to be mandatory and default for every topic group.

Click here to learn more about setting up topics and topic groups

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