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    Setting up a session

    • + Add Question Adds a question to the list above it.
    • + Add topic Adds a topic.
    • Add End Question(s) Asks questions after the comparisons.
    • Additional questions An additional question: asked before or after the statements, and counted in no score.
    • Additional questions › + Add question Adds an additional question.
    • Additional questions › How it is answered How the additional question is answered.
    • Additional questions › Options, separated by commas The options of a question answered by choosing, separated by commas.
    • Additional questions › Remove question Removes the question.
    • Additional questions › Required Respondents must answer the question.
    • Additional questions › Where it is asked When the additional question is asked.
    • Agenda / Purpose What the meeting is about.
    • Base language The language you write the session in.
    • Clear Clears the selection.
    • Closing Date The date and time the session closes itself.
    • Comments Where respondents can comment.
    • Completion Message Adds a message participants read when they finish.
    • Completion Message › Body The message's text, for example the next steps.
    • Completion Message › Heading The message's title, for example "Thank you".
    • Confirm Password Your password again.
    • Content On a phone, shows the session's content: the cards in the middle of the page.
    • Create Account Opens the sign-in panel on Create Account.
    • Create Account Creates your account without leaving the page.
    • Criteria A criterion the options are ranked against, lettered A, B, C.
    • Criteria › + Add Criterion Adds a criterion.
    • Criteria › Criterion description Explains the criterion.
    • Criteria › Criterion name The criterion's name, for example "Impact".
    • Criteria › Participant question The question participants answer for this criterion.
    • Criteria › Remove Removes the criterion.
    • Criteria › Reverse-scored A lower score is better for this criterion.
    • Customise Weighting Gives each criterion its own weight in the overall ranking.
    • Customise Weighting › Weighting A criterion's weight, from 1 to 100%.
    • Cut point The score where the axis divides into low and high.
    • Delete Deletes the selected statements.
    • Delete Session Moves the session to Trash, then takes you to My Sessions.
    • Delivery Whether participants answer in their own time, or together in a session you lead.
    • Description Describes the quadrant.
    • Dimension A dimension's name.
    • Dimension › + Add dimension Adds a dimension to the group.
    • Dimension › Description for respondents (optional; shown when dimensions are sub-sections) Describes the dimension to respondents.
    • Dimension › Group of a dimension Moves the dimension to another group: choose the group, or drag the dimension onto it in the tree.
    • Dimension › Open Opens the dimension from its group's list.
    • Dimension › Remove dimension Removes the dimension.
    • Email Your email address.
    • Email me about new features and use cases. Optional — you can change this any time in your account. Emails about new features, if you want them.
    • Enable Comments Gives participants an optional comment box under each pair.
    • Enable Skip Lets participants skip a pair.
    • Enable Ties Lets participants say two options are equal.
    • End labels The words for the axis's low and high ends.
    • First Name Your first name.
    • Forgot password? Opens the password reset page in a new tab.
    • Group A group's name.
    • Group / Team The group or team the session is for.
    • Groups, dimensions, statements and questions The assessment's structure: its groups and their dimensions, statements not placed yet, and additional questions.
    • Group › + Group Adds a group.
    • Group › Description for respondents (optional; shown when groups are sections) Describes the group to respondents.
    • Group › Remove group Removes the group.
    • Hidden from participants Hides the topic from participants.
    • How people answer How people give feedback on the topic.
    • How respondents answer How respondents answer each statement.
    • Instructions / Help Opens this help beside the page, on the setting you last clicked.
    • Introduction Page Adds an introduction participants read before anything else.
    • Introduction Page › Body The introduction's text.
    • Introduction Page › Heading The introduction's title, for example "Welcome".
    • Invite Participants Creates the poll, opens your email app with the invitation, then opens the poll's manage page.
    • Keep me signed in on this device Keeps you signed in on this device.
    • Last Name Your last name.
    • Link Shows the link and QR code that open the topic, or one of its entries, directly.
    • Location Where the meeting is.
    • Location › Enter meeting place Where the meeting takes place.
    • Make normal Makes the selected statements scored normally.
    • Method How participants rank the options.
    • Method › Answered with With Scoring, how a score is given.
    • Method › Budget total With Budget, the amount participants share between the options.
    • Method › Currency With Budget, the currency the amount is in.
    • Method › Every dot must be spent With Dot Voting, participants must place every dot before they continue.
    • Method › Max dots per option With Dot Voting, the most dots one option may take from one participant.
    • Method › Number of dots With Dot Voting, how many dots each participant places.
    • Method › Pick up to With Multiple Choice, the most options a participant may pick.
    • Method › Reverse-scored A lower score is better: the option scored lowest ranks first.
    • Method › Scale The scale a score is given on: its lowest and highest points, and a label for each end if you want them.
    • Method › Unit With a number entry, the unit a score is in, for example "days" or "€".
    • Move on automatically after each answer With one statement a screen, moves on as soon as a statement is answered.
    • Move to Moves the selected statements to a part.
    • Multi-language responses Offers the session in more languages than the base one.
    • Multi-language responses › + Add language Adds a language to offer.
    • Multi-language responses › Remove language Stops offering that language.
    • Multi-language responses › Translate changes Translates what is new or changed in the session's text into every language added.
    • Multiple criteria Ranks the same options against several criteria, with the same method for each.
    • Options The options participants rank.
    • Options › + Add Item Adds an option.
    • Options › Image link An image option's link.
    • Options › Option One option, lettered A, B, C in order.
    • Options › Options are Whether the options are text or images.
    • Options › Remove Removes the option.
    • Options › Upload Uploads an image from your device for the option: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 15 MB, made smaller in your browser first.
    • Order The order of the statements.
    • Organisation Your organisation.
    • Overall Question The question above every comparison, for example "Which option is more impactful?".
    • Participant data / Segmentation Asks participants for details such as their name or team before they begin.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Add Adds a field: one button for each ready-made field (Name, Email, Gender, Organisation, Org type, Team or dept, Country) and Custom Field for anything else.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Body The text on that screen, for example "Please enter the following information".
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields A field you ask for: its name, then how it is answered, how many options it has, and which of Required, Track and Use Once are set.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Answer How participants answer the field.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Field The field's name, as participants see it.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Options The options a field with a list offers.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Required Participants cannot continue without answering the field.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Track Lists who on this field's list has not answered yet, on the manage page's response list.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Fields › Use Once Each option can be picked by one participant only.
    • Participant data / Segmentation › Heading The title of the screen where participants give their details, for example "Before You Start".
    • Participants are asked With a list, what people are asked when they pick from it.
    • Password Your password.
    • Preview: one respondent A working preview of one respondent's screens, as the settings above lay them out.
    • Prompt shown above the statements The prompt above the statements; with Pairwise Ranking, above each pair.
    • Quadrant name The quadrant's name.
    • Reminder Emails you once, a set time before the closing date.
    • Respondent(s) Whether you answer the session yourself, or invite a group.
    • Respondent Theme The look of every participant screen.
    • Respondent Theme › Drawn / Clean For a country design: whether it is drawn or clean.
    • Respondent Theme › Theme preview Shows the themes on six example participant screens.
    • Response Notifications Emails you when a respondent finishes.
    • Result text What a respondent whose answers place them in this quadrant reads.
    • Save & Continue Saves the session as a draft now.
    • Save for Later Opens the session's manage page, to start it later.
    • Save Items & Questions Saves the items and questions of a saved session.
    • Save To Project Files the session under one of your projects.
    • Save To Project › Project name The new project's name.
    • Save To Project › Save Creates the project and files the session under it.
    • Scale The scale's lowest and highest points, 1 to 5 to start, and its end labels.
    • Scored from The group or dimension the axis is scored from.
    • Screens How much is on each screen.
    • Section A section of a multi-section survey, lettered A, B, C.
    • Sections How the statements are divided into sections.
    • Section › + Add Section Adds a section.
    • Section › Comparison question The question above the section's comparisons.
    • Section › Method How participants rank this section's options: the same choices as Method.
    • Section › Remove Removes the section.
    • Section › Section description Shown on the section's introduction screen.
    • Section › Section name The section's name.
    • Section › Section type What the section holds.
    • Session Title The session's name.
    • Session type With the programme, the kind of session offered, or every kind.
    • Settings On a phone, shows the settings: both rails, every group open.
    • Setup Interface The look of your workspace: the same setting as the workspace theme in Manage Account.
    • Setup Language The language this page and your signed-in pages are in.
    • Set Up Session Where you set up a session: what kind it is, its content, and how people take part.
    • Set up Session Checks the page and sets the session up.
    • Show Team Results Shows each respondent the team's results beside their own.
    • Shuffle the order of the sections too With a random order, shuffles the sections too.
    • Sign In Opens the sign-in panel.
    • Sign In Signs you in without leaving the page.
    • Start Now Opens the session so you can answer it now.
    • Statement A statement respondents answer.
    • Statement › + Add statement Adds a statement.
    • Statement › Drag onto a group or dimension in the tree Drag the statement onto a part in the tree to move it there.
    • Statement › Paste several Adds several statements at once.
    • Statement › Remove statement Removes the statement.
    • Statement › Reverse-scored The statement is scored the other way round: a high answer counts low.
    • Statement › Select this statement Selects the statement, for Move to, ↺ Make reverse-scored, Make normal and Delete.
    • Statement › Where (group › dimension) The part the statement belongs to, or Not placed yet.
    • Survey Whether a survey is one list of questions or several sections.
    • Template The kind of session this page sets up, or the template it starts from.
    • Type The kind of assessment.
    • ↺ Make reverse-scored Makes the selected statements reverse-scored.

    A saved session

    • Keep Keeps your translation as it is, and marks it up to date.
    • Showing Shows the session's text in another language it offers, so you can read and change the translations.
    • Status Shows whether the session is open, and closes or reopens it.
    • Translate again Drops your translation, so the next translation replaces it.
    • Translation The translation of one of the session's texts.

    Event lists

    • + Add entry Adds an entry.
    • Columns Switches the list's optional columns on and off.
    • Download as Excel Downloads the list as an Excel file.
    • Duplicate Duplicates the entry, or the selected entries.
    • Import from Excel Fills the list from an Excel or CSV file.
    • Link Shows the entry's link and QR code.
    • List entry An entry's value in one column.
    • Remove Removes the entry, or the selected entries.
    • Select entry Selects an entry, or every entry, for Duplicate, Remove and Set day, room or track.
    • Set day, room or track Sets the day, room or track of every selected entry at once.

    Question types

    • Availability Poll The availability poll's question: the dates and times people can choose from.
    • Availability Poll › Calendar Click a day to add it as an option.
    • Availability Poll › Host timezone The time zone the start times are in.
    • Availability Poll › Meeting/ Event Length How long the meeting or event is.
    • Availability Poll › Remove option Removes the option.
    • Availability Poll › Start time The option's start time; it shows where it ends.
    • Brainstorming Participants add ideas to a shared board, in a live session.
    • Brainstorming › Character limit The most characters an item may have.
    • Brainstorming › Note Colours The colours participants can choose from.
    • Brainstorming › Note Colours › + Add Colour Adds a colour, chosen in your browser's colour picker.
    • Brainstorming › Note Colours › Remove colour Removes the colour.
    • Brainstorming › Participants can choose colour Lets participants choose a colour for each item.
    • Checklist Participants answer Yes or No to each of your statements.
    • Checklist › Allow “Don’t know” Adds a Don't Know column beside Yes and No.
    • Checklist › Checklist Statements The statements participants answer, one a row.
    • Checklist › Checklist Statements › + Add Option Adds a statement.
    • Checklist › Checklist Statements › Remove option Removes the statement.
    • Choose Options Participants choose from your options: one, or several.
    • Choose Options › How respondents answer Whether participants choose one option or several.
    • Choose Options › Options The options participants choose from, lettered A, B, C.
    • Choose Options › Options › + Add Option Adds an option.
    • Choose Options › Options › Remove option Removes the option.
    • Choose Options › Rank these options Makes the question a Rank Items question, its options the items, chosen as before but ranked.
    • Create and Rank List Participants write their own items, then put them in order.
    • Create and Rank List › Minimum and maximum The fewest and most items a participant may give.
    • Create List Participants write a list of their own items.
    • Create List › Minimum and maximum The fewest and most items a participant may give.
    • Drag to reorder question Drag the question to change its place in the list.
    • Duplicate question Adds a copy of the question directly below it.
    • Instruction / Hint A line under the question, for example how to answer it.
    • Multiple Choice A Choose Options question on which participants may choose several options.
    • Number A Scale question answered by typing a number.
    • Number › Minimum and maximum The lowest and highest number a participant may give.
    • Number › Unit The unit the number is in, for example "years".
    • Question The question participants answer.
    • Quiz A question with one correct answer.
    • Quiz › Answer Options The answers participants choose from, lettered A, B, C.
    • Quiz › Answer Options › + Add Option Adds an answer.
    • Quiz › Answer Options › Remove option Removes the answer.
    • Quiz › Mark this answer correct Click an answer's letter to mark it correct.
    • Rank Items A ranking inside a question: options ranked by a method, as a ranking's own options are.
    • Rank Items A Rank Items question whose options are images.
    • Rank Order Participants put a list of options into order.
    • Remove question Removes the question.
    • Scale Participants rate on a scale, or answer with a number.
    • Scale › How respondents answer How participants answer.
    • Scale › Scale The scale's lowest and highest points, 1 to 5 to start, and a label for each end.
    • Text Question A question answered in the participant's own words.
    • Text Slide A page of text with nothing to answer: a heading and a body.
    • Text Slide › Body The slide's text, under its heading.
    • Type The kind of question.
    • Weighting Participants share a total between options.
    • Whiteboard A shared board participants add notes to, in a live session.
    • Whiteboard › Character limit The most characters a note may have.
    • Whiteboard › Note Colours The colours participants can give their notes.
    • Whiteboard › Note Colours › + Add Colour Adds a colour, chosen in your browser's colour picker.
    • Whiteboard › Note Colours › Remove colour Removes the colour.
    • Word Cloud Participants give words, and the results show them as a cloud.
    • Word Cloud › How respondents answer Whether participants type words or pick them.
    • Word Cloud › Max selections per participant How many of your words each participant may pick.
    • Word Cloud › Max words per participant How many words each participant may type.
    • Word Cloud › Words The words participants pick from, one a row.
    • Word Cloud › Words › + Add Word Adds a word.
    • Word Cloud › Words › Remove option Removes the word.
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