Highlight and Rate Question

This type of question allows the respondent to highlight sections of text, and rate those sections, as the answers to the question.

When you add a Highlight & Rate question in the questionnaire tree, a folder containing three questions is included - .

Figure 1 - The Highlight & Rate question

The folder (top) node holds the settings for the question. Inside the folder there is an Info node, a 3DGrid and an open text.

• The info node (selectableText) holds the text you want the respondent to select from. The text can contain HTML and must be added in the Question text area of the node.
• The 3DGrid holds the title, question text and instruction for the entire question. Here you also add the answer list which determines how many words/phrases the respondent can select.
• Inside the 3DGrid there is an Open Text List (selectionList) which is used to store the selected text. There is also a Grid question (selectionRating); here you add the scale which is used to rate the selected text.
• The Open Text (hash) is used to hold meta data for the respondents selections so they can be re-highlighted in the event the respondent re-enters the page. This question should not be changed.

Setting up a Highlight Rate Question

A Highlight Text & Rate question contains a number of sub-questions. Follow the procedure below:

1. Add the selectable text (this can have HTML formatting) into the question text field for the selectableText info node - .



Figure 2 - The selectableText (Info) node

2. Add the number of answers you want to collect into the Answer List for the 3DGrid - .



Figure 3 - The 3DGrid node

3. Add the question title/text/instruction into the Text tab of the 3DGrid.
4. Add the scale you wish to use into the Scale of the Grid question - .



Figure 4 - The selectionRating (Grid) node

5. Open the top node in the question and then go to the Settings tab - .



Figure 5 - The Highlight and Rate Settings tab

6. By clicking the + button, add the same number of codes as you have added to the scale in step 4, and update the codes to reflect the scale you created in step 4 of this procedure - .



Figure 6 - Adding and updating the codes

7. Change the marker color for each item by clicking the marker pen and selecting a color with the color picker.
8. Click Save to save your changes.
9. To preview the question, go to the Preview tab in the top node (Highlight & Rate) - .



Figure 7 - Previewing the setup

10. Launch the survey to apply the changes in production.