Survey Security - Authentication (Password Protection)

Survey authentication allows you to control who can see and respond to your surveys. QuestionPro provides multiple types of authentication methods for you to choose depending on the level of security you need. Survey authentication is a good way to control or restric access to your surveys.

Go to: My Surveys (Select Survey) » Edit

Click on the Settings menu under Edit.

Select Security on the left navigation bar.

By default, survey authentication is set to none. Select the survey authentication option you wish to use and save.

Once saved, respondents will need to authenticate access to survey using the selected option.

You can select from one of the following survey authentication options:

Global Password Protect: You can setup a common password for the survey. Any respondent who has the password can access the survey. This provides low level password protection since password is common for all respondents.

Email Invites only: The system makes sure that the survey can be answerd only using the link sent in the invite sent to the respondent’s inbox. Survey will not be accessibly otherwise.

Email/Password: Use the respondents email and assign an individual unique password for each respondent.

Username/Password: You can set up a unique username and a password for each respondent.

Participant ID: You could set up a unique ID for each respondent that can be their employee ID or student ID or roll number which they can enter to access and respond to the survey.

Password (Email detected automatically): You can define unique passwords for each email address. The system will detect if the password matches the email address the respondent claims to be on the back end. For example: Password: **** [ system will detect that if the password matches [email protected]]

DES Encrypted Custom Variables: It involves encryption and decryption of custom variables so that it cannot be hacked. It is used for sensitive data.

Communities Invites Only: The system restricts non-panel members from accessing a survey link. Once this survey authentication is enabled, a shared survey link by the community member cannot be used to take the survey by a non-community member.