What are my options for adding Media into SurveyMR 2.0?
- Access the Back Room > Research Tools > SurveyMR 2.0
- Select your survey from the ‘upcoming’ tab or click ‘Add Survey 2.0’ in the top right corner, to create a new survey
- In the ‘Survey 2.0' build tab, add a new question by first clicking and dragging the 'form' box from the left of the page onto the canvas or edit an existing form by clicking on the edit icon in the top right corner of the form
- Add your question (or choose your question to edit) Good to know: You can add media to any question type in SurveyMR 2.0
Add media
- Underneath the question text box, click ‘Add media’ to open a new window titled ‘Media picker’.
- Within this window, you can select the media type you wish to upload – image, video or PDF
- Click ‘Select File’ to upload an image from your device
Good to know:
- Images should be one of the following file types: .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png (they will be resized automatically)
- Videos should be one of the following file types: .mp4, .webm
- PDFs should have the file type .pdf
- Once you have selected your file, you can give the file an optional title or description. Then click ‘Start Upload’
- Using the ‘Media position’ drop down menu, you can choose whether the file displays before or after the question text.
- Click the file that has been uploaded – the image will have a green border once selected - and click ‘Add Media’
- The image, video or PDF file will then show within your question preview
- When an image shows in your question, it will be automatically resized to an optimum size on the page, but participants will also be able to click on the file to view a full-size version
The ‘Add media’ button is not the only way to add media into a survey question in Survey 2.0. At the top right of the text box, there are four small icons you can select to insert media into the text of your question.
Adding links
This icon, when selected, gives you the option to include a link within your survey question.- To add a link, type out your question and include a statement which will lead your participant to the page of your choice. An example could be:
- “For more information, go to our website here”
- In this instance, to add the link, you would highlight “here” within your text and click the link icon. This will open a new box where you can enter the hyperlink.
- Once you have copied this in to the box required, click ‘Save’.
Image picker
This icon, when selected, gives you the option to include an image within your survey question.- To add an image, click the image icon and then upload the file from your device
- Give the image a title and then click the ‘upload’ button.
- Click the file that has been uploaded – the image will have a green border once selected - and click ‘Add Media’.
Good to know: When you add images using this method you can show them at a specific point in the question and can add multiple images throughout your question
Upload video
This icon, when selected, gives you the option to include a video within your survey question.- To add a video, click the icon and then upload the file from your device
- Give the video a title and then click the ‘upload’ button.
- Click the file that has been uploaded – the video image will have a green border once selected - and click ‘Add Media’.
Embedding videos from another website
The final option for adding media is embedding videos from YouTube.- To do this, type out your question and click the icon to add your video.
- A small box will appear for you to paste in the URL link.
- Once you have pasted the link in the ‘Enter video’ section, click ‘Save’. Good to know: Embedded Videos should be a direct link to the video, for example by going to YouTube, open the 'share' options and 'copy link'.
- Once you have clicked save, the video will be instantly added to the question