Set Up an External Survey On Qualtrics

The overview here is pretty simple -- you just set your survey to secretely call a special URL when the participant finishes their survey. That URL will connect briefly with Sona and give that participant credit for completing your study.

I don't yet have access to a Qualtrics account and thus I cann't give you pretty step by step instructions. However, the link below includes the step-by-step instructions from Qualtrics on how to do it.

It may help if you first read over the full set of instructions for connecting Sona to Surveymonkey.

Before you get stared, note that our intructions for setting up your survey information on the Sona website said to add ?c=%SURVEY_CODE% to your STUDY URL. You need to revise that. For Qualtrics surveys, it needs to be &id=%SURVEY_CODE%. For more on this and also how to setup your survey on Qualtrics.com, see the information below:

With Qualtrics, it is best to follow this link to the Qualtrics website that describes the process in detail.

In that document, “panel company” refers to Sona, and you will only need to focus on the Complete Response Link. The Screen-Out Link and Over Quota links are not applicable or implemented in this situation.

Here are the basic steps, which are subject to change (since the product is controlled by Qualtrics):

1. In Sona, change the Study URL so it includes %SURVEY_CODE% in the URL.

So if the Qualtrics URL is https://yourschool.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b9ZD41hMZaqE then change it to https://yourschool.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b9ZD41hMZaqE&id=%SURVEY_CODE%

2. In Qualtrics, configure the survey to accept the survey code number, as an embedded data field named “id”. Remember to use lower-case as this is case-sensitive.

3. In Qualtrics, configure the Survey Flow option to “Redirect to a URL” at the end of the survey, and provide the Client-Side Completion URL from the system. However, you need to change the XXXX at the end of the URL, and instead have Qualtrics put in the survey_code number passed as embedded data.

So if the client-side completion URL was https://ucsc.sona-systems.com/webstudy_credit.aspx?experiment_id=243&credit_token=66e315069f22450993651b60e3aaeaaf&id=XXXX then enter it in Qualtrics as https://ucsc.sona-systems.com/webstudy_credit.aspx?experiment_id=243&credit_token=66e315069f22450993651b60e3aaeaaf&id=${e://Field/id}