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This type of question allows the respondent to view an embedded video and put text values or images on the ends of the rating slider.
Setting up a Video Rating Question with Scale
To set up a Video Rating question with Scale:
- Type the title, text, and instructions into the Text Tab.
- Add the required number of answer options into the Answers tab
- If you want the respondent to rate the videos at particular times, put the times you want the video rated at, in seconds, into the “Code” column for the answers - . Then ensure you check the “Use code values” box in the Configuration tab in step 6 of this procedure.
- Add the appropriate values to the Scale tab - .
- To set the Scales to images, open the Properties panel for the question, select Advanced WI Features, then check the Use images checkbox.
- If images are enabled and there is an image in the first or last value, the images will be shown.
- If there is a text string in the first or last value, the text will be shown.
- If images or text are not provided, the code for the first and last values will be shown.
- Click on the pale green Video Question Configuration tab.
- Type/copy the URL of the video you want embedded into your question into the Video URL text box.
- Mp4
- YouTube - see Note below.
- Webm
- Ogv
- Set the Poster URL, Video Width, Video Height and other settings as needed (go to Configuring Video Questions for more information).
- Click Save.
- Launch the survey to save your changes in production.
Figure 1 - Creating the answers and setting the codes for a video rating question
Figure 2 - Adding the required values to the Scale tab
Note: When using images, only the first and last Default images are used on the slider, and the images are automatically sized so you do not need to set the image width or image height.
Note: When using texts, only the first and last text strings are displayed on the scale, the first value in the scale being the lowest value and the last value in the scale being the highest value.
The display priority order for the slider is by default:
The configuration page for the question opens - .
Figure 3 - The configuration page for the question
Valid video formats are:
Note: When using YouTube videos, having more than one Video Question on a survey page causes issues. Forsta therefore recommends separating YouTube videos onto separate pages.