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Introduction to LimeSurvey

Description:

This workshop will introduce the Limesurvey administrative interface and dive straight into setting up a questionnaire. Once we have set up a working questionnaire, we will introduce methods for inviting and managing participants, including email invitations with unique tokens and open-access surveys. We will cover the Expression Manager system of Limesurvey which allows for conditional logic and branching along with text replacements and inline calculations. You will learn how to manage and monitor an ongoing survey, and how to export your data for analysis to multiple statistical packages. 

Presenter: ADAM ZAMMIT, Director of Operations at ACSPRI (Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc), the LimeSurvey Authorised Partner in Australia. By demonstrating the creation of an evaluation questionnaire, Adam will show how to create an individually customised survey using the survey participants function, additional participant attributes and expression manager response tailoring.

LimeSurvey login: https://limesurvey.mq.edu.au/ 

LimeSurvey Series as follows:

Clinic 1

-        Best practice in online survey design (e.g. Length, sectioning, pagination, universal design principles – making welcome and finish page look good)

-        LimeSurvey question types (e.g. multiple choices, Likert scales, rating scales) – how and when to use them

-        Creative ways to ask questions (using images, sliders, etc)  

Register: https://myrdc.mq.edu.au/workshop/501621?year=2026

Tue, 4 Aug 2026

1-2pm

Clinic 2

-        Questions involving multiple variables (e.g. crosstabs). Examples of how this can be displayed.

-        Using skip / branching logic in LimeSurvey 

-        Getting data / reports out of LimeSurvey including Extract data and export to excel, SPSS and Stata 

Register: https://myrdc.mq.edu.au/workshop/501661?year=2026

Thu, 6 Aug 2026

10-11am

Clinic 3

-        Pre-loading or passing in respondent information and using it in your questionnaire    

-        Using quotas for setting up a consent page or limiting responses    

-        Creating a questionnaire using clinical or other assessment scales (scoring) 

Register: https://myrdc.mq.edu.au/workshop/501701?year=2026

Fri, 7 Aug 2026

11am-12pm

Please note: Calendar invitations with a Zoom link will be sent to registered sessions a few days before the events.

These sessions will be recorded.

To make the session more interactive, participants may be requested to complete a simple survey that will be created during the webinar.

If you agree to participate in the "mock survey", you will have to give consent that your first name and email address (used to register for the webinar) will be shared with Adam. A question about consent will be asked during registration. Shared first names and email addresses will ONLY be used for the purposes of the mock survey. Note that participation is entirely optional and is not a requirement for attending the webinar.

If you have any problems during the registration process, contact research.data.management@mq.edu.au
Attachments
Date: Thursday 30 July 2026
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Audiences

Graduate Research Supervisors

Mid Career/Senior Researchers

Graduate Research Students

Early Career Researchers
Venue(s): Online
Facilitator(s): ACSPRI
Enquiries: research.data.management@mq.edu.au
Registration closes: Wednesday 29 July 2026 04:00 PM



Researcher Type
For GR candidates only
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Terms & Conditions

  1. Graduate Research students who register for this training event but do not attend will be reported to their Principal Supervisor and Faculty Liaison Coordinator, and may be restricted from participating in future graduate research training events.
  2. To cancel your registration, select 'unregister' in your registration confirmation or email the event enquiry contact as soon as possible.
  3. Your MQ ID number is the unique identifier for your registration and will not be disclosed.