Select questions for your survey

This article covers one of the four steps in creating a survey in My Effectory. The four steps are:

When setting up a survey in My Effectory, you’ll be guided through the question selection process. Choosing the right questions ensures your survey captures the insights you need.

Need help choosing the right questions?

Download our Questionnaire toolkit from the Resources tab in My Effectory! It gives you practical tips on designing clear and relevant surveys, examples to inspire you, and guidance on tailoring questions to your goals. Using it can make the question selection process easier and help you get more useful insights from your survey.

How to select survey questions

In the survey setup, go to step 3: Questions.
Choose between question sets or single questions:
- Question sets cover specific themes or topics and are ready-made collections of questions. Click View details to learn more about a theme or topic before adding it.
- Switch to the Single questions tab to browse or add individual questions.
Use the search bar to quickly find specific questions or sets.
You can review your selected questions at any time by clicking View questions at the top of the page.
When you're ready, confirm your selection to go to the next step of the survey setup.

Good to know:

Mandatory questions (shown in grey) are set by your project or central coordinator and cannot be removed.
You can combine question sets and single questions to create the mix that best fits your project.
In the Question sets section, you will see sets of questions categorized as themes or topics. To learn more about the difference, check out this article.

Tip! Want to change something later? You can go back to this (and any other) step to make edits up until two hours before your survey launches!