Create a new survey (Quick guide)

1. Choose the Main language of your survey (this is the language you are using to draft the survey).

2. In Describe your questionnaire, write what the survey is about, who it's for and what you want to find out. You can also paste in questions you've already drafted. Click Continue.

   

    

3. Tell AI whether you have map material, such as planned sites, district boundaries or routes: No map material, Yes, in my Materials (tick the layers you want to use), or Yes, but I haven't uploaded it yet (upload it now, or choose Add later and describe what it will show).

   

    

4. Click Generate. Drafting can take up to a minute.
5. Your draft opens in preview. Click through it, then click Edit in the top menu to start editing.

For tips on writing a good description and using your map material, see Generate a survey draft using AI.

1. Choose the Main language (this is the language you are using to draft the survey).

   

    

2. Give your survey an Internal title (only you and your team see this). The Public title (what respondents see) is filled in automatically with the same name. Change it if you want respondents to see a different title.
3. Click Create. The editor opens with an empty first page.

You edit a Classic survey page by page.

1. Click the palette icon on top right to select or create a style template. This determines the font and color scheme.

   

    

2. Add a page: click Add page and choose Map background or Non-map background. You can change the background later.

   

3. Add content: click Add element to open the Element Library. Choose map questions, other questions, or content such as text, images and videos. To edit an element, click it in the draft. You can find instructions for each setting by clicking the ? symbols.

   

    

4. Set the background and layout: use the buttons above the page. See Choose a page background and layout.

   

    

5. Set up maps: on map pages, add a basemap, your own layers and a starting view. See Set up map elements in your survey.

   

    

Want to change several things at once, or not sure how to ask something? Click the Edit with AI button (the sparkle icon, top right) and describe the change (available while your survey is in draft, and currently only for Classic surveys), for example: Add a question about how often people visit to the page "How You Use the Park".

 

In a Classic survey, keep pages short to avoid scrolling. Need to include a long text? Put it in a Pop-up window.

Reuse questions, instructions or contact details across your team's surveys by saving them to the element bank.

1. Click the palette icon on top right to select or create a style template. This determines the font and color scheme.

   

    

2. Start adding content to the survey by clicking Add element. It opens the Element Library, which lists everything you can add to the page. 

   

    

   You can add elements directly onto the page, in which case they appear in the middle. You can control the width of the layout from the Container width menu on the top right.

   

    

   How to add a...

   •  ... banner as the survey heading or its subsection heading: add a Columns element. Select or upload the image (or select a color). Choose the 'Floating' placement mode. Add elements like Heading and Text to add the survey's name and an introductory paragraph to the floating box. 

     

      

   • ...text or a question next to an image: Use the Columns element. Add the image, choose 'Docked' as the placement and align it to left or right. Add a Text or a Question element to the space beside the image.

     

      

   • ... a map with questions: add the Map element from the element library. Select the type of map you want to use and any overlays (See Set up map elements in your survey for more information). Move and zoom the map until you find a view you want respondents to start from and click 'Set' to save it.

     

      

     Click Add element inside the card to add questions and other content from the element library. To edit the element you add, click it in the card and its editing window opens.

     

     Click Add card to add more cards on the same map. 

     

      

     Each card can have its own map settings, which you can access by clicking the map icon on its top right corner. The map changes as respondents scroll (see the demo linked above for an example).

    

3. Add more pages for information (Communicate subscription): click Add page to add another page to the same survey, for example "About the project". The new page starts empty, and you build it in the same way. Respondents move between pages using a menu. Each page scrolls by default, so you don't need to divide it into sections. Remember that the survey's opening and closing dates apply to every page.