Month: May 2017

Show & Tell – Upcoming Discussions

 

June 6th, 2017

  • Brandon Allen – Qualtrics

Brandon will present the new Statwing feature for performing data analysis in Qualtrics.  The meeting information is listed below. Feel free to join online and/or by phone.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://qualtrics.zoom.us/j/582166815
Or iPhone one-tap: 16465588656,582166815# or 14086380968,582166815#

Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
+1 855 880 1246 (US Toll Free)
+1 877 369 0926 (US Toll Free)

Meeting ID: 582 166 815
April 4th, 2017

  • Brandon Allen – Qualtrics

He will present the new AXM Qualtrics platform.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://qualtrics.zoom.us/j/920474571
Or iPhone one-tap: 16465588656,920474571# or 14086380968,920474571#

Or Telephone:

Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)

+1 855 880 1246 (US Toll Free)

+1 877 369 0926 (US Toll Free)

Meeting ID: 920 474 571

Show & Tell – Previous Discussions

September 13th, 2016

  • Amanda Rinehart – Assistant Professor and Data Management Librarian. Amanda discussed about data management plans and best practices in managing Qualtrics data.
  • John Strawn – OAA Web Communication Specialist. John presented useful Microsoft tools for automating reports from Qualtrics data.

October 4th, 2016

  • Amanda Baker and Ben Andrews, Research Analysts in the Center for the Study of Student Life. They discussed survey fatigue and the use of incentives in survey research.

November 1st, 2016

  • Mary Higginbotham (Pharmacy), Heather Lansky (EHE), Jen Abbruzzese (Wexner), Mary Shook (James) and Lauren Haas-Gehres (Social Work)

They covered the following topics:

  • onboarding with Qualtrics within your division.
  • managing users within your division.
  • ideas for in-house training.
  • managing groups within your division.

December 6th, 2016

  • Timothy Huerta – Associate Professor, College of Medicine, College of Public Health. He presented about his experience in using Qualtrics APIs for advanced data management.

February 7th, 2017

  • William Ashley – Communication Specialist
  • Mary-Butler Ravneberg – HR Data Analyst

They spoke on the collaborative approach OHR takes to survey data, including survey process and reporting, examples of their survey partnerships, and upcoming projects.

March 7th, 2017

  • Peter Bossley – Director, Digital Accessibility Center
  • Laura Fathauer – Digital Accessibility Center GA
  • Rahim Abdi – OCIO Accessibility Analyst

They will spoke on the following topics:

  • ADA / OSU Digital Accessibility policy
  • Accessible Technology in principle and in theory
  • Universal design
  • Qualtrics survey examples and benchmarking

Non-accessible Survey Questions to be Disabled

Qualtrics surveys contain several questions that cannot be read or responded to by people with disabilities who rely on assistive technology for access to their computers. As such, these “non-accessible” survey questions do not comply with Ohio State’s web/digital accessibility policy and a settlement agreement with the Office of Civil Rights. Unless granted an exemption by the University ADA Coordinator, any digital information or service by any campus unit must meet the Minimum Digital Accessibility Standards (MDAS).

These non-accessible survey questions will be disabled for all users this summer. Exemptions may be submitted to either the ADA Coordinator’s Office or the Digital Accessibility Center and are approved by Scott Lissner, Ohio State’s ADA Coordinator and 504 Compliance Officer with the Office of Compliance and Institutional Integrity. The exemption request form can be found at: https://accessibility.osu.edu/files/OSU-Request-for-Alternative-Access-Exemption.pdf. The Digital Accessibility Center is available to assist campus units through the exemption request process. You can request assistance by emailing accessibility@osu.edu.

[Action Required] API Security Upgrade Test

As part of ongoing efforts to upgrade security, Qualtrics is deprecating users’ ability to access their accounts over unsecured HTTP connections.

This is a notification regarding upcoming deprecation HTTP endpoints of Qualtrics public APIs.

This email details the steps necessary to move over to the secure HTTPS endpoints and the timeline.

What is HTTPS?

HTTPS (Secure HTTP) denotes the use of HTTP with encryption protocols to create a secure connection between two machines. This encryption prevents attackers from intercepting sensitive information passed as part of a request from a website or API. This encryption is enabled when connecting to a secure part of a website or API indicated by an HTTPS URL, that is, a URL with the prefix https://.

What Action Needs to be Taken?

Version 2 API users must update the base URL of their API calls to begin with ‘https’ instead of ‘http’. This would be a simple string change in applications that call Qualtrics APIs. No additional code changes are necessary.

The base URL for the version 2 API is: https://survey.qualtrics.com/WRAPI/ControlPanel/api.php

Users that are using the API without the ‘s’ in the ‘https’ portion of the URL can search for ‘WRAPI/ControlPanel/api.php’ in their applications in order to find where it must be updated.

The deadline for switching version to API usage to HTTPS is June 15th, 2017.

After June 15th 2017, HTTP endpoint will be deprecated – which means applications that continue to call the HTTP endpoints will stop working.

Also note that API users may take this opportunity to transition to the newer version 3 API. Version 3 API  is fully RESTful and more state-of-the-art. Version 3 API documentation can be found at api.qualtrics.com.