List of OSU and Qualtrics resources for best practices in survey design and management.
- List of Ohio State Resources applicable to surveys: https://oaa.osu.edu/irp/surveys.php
- Qualtrics articles about some best practices for survey design: https://www.qualtrics.com/support/research-resources/survey-basics/.
- “So you want to survey the OSU community” provides guidance concerning surveying the Ohio State community: https://oaa.osu.edu/irp/survey_research/survey_research_guide.php#A11
- Survey Email Best Practices– view the slides from a presentation from University Marketing on best practices for survey emails: https://u.osu.edu/qualtrics/files/2019/03/Qualtrics-Show-and-Tell-Survey-Email-Best-Practices-032619-stf62o.pdf
- Tips for Avoiding Spam provides advice on writing survey invitation and reminder emails that minimize the chances of the messages going to spam: https://u.osu.edu/qualtrics/files/2018/07/Tips-for-Avoiding-Spam-12mufvf.pdf
- Email Invitations and Reminders Using @survey.osu.edu – provides instructions for using the domain @survey.osu.edu for sending email invitations through Qualtrics. This domain provides added security, can help reduce the chances that your invitations and reminders go to spam, and enables customization of the “sending” email address. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/8/29087/files/2018/08/Instructions_for_survey.osu_.edu-8-10-18-1cdlqn5.pdf