Customize a Survey

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If you want a customized survey form, you will need to host the survey on your own (or school’s) website. (The survey results will still be kept on the Fathom Surveys website.) You will be editing the HTML code, so you need a program that will let you do that. Unlike surveys hosted on the Fathom Surveys website, after submitting your form, respondents will not see an empty form ready for another submission, but will see either the successful submission page or the unsuccessful submission page. You will need to create those pages.

1.Create the survey in Fathom and upload it to the Fathom Surveys website.

2.Log in to your account. Locate the survey and click the html source button.

This gives you a window with a text box containing the HTML for your survey. All of the text is selected.

3. Copy the contents of the text box, and paste it into a text or HTML editor.

4. Locate this text: “hidden name” = “success forward” value = “ ”. Between that last pair of quotes, type the URL for the successful submission page.

5. Similarly, locate this text: “error forward” value = “ ”. Between that pair of empty quotes, type the URL for the unsuccessful submission page.

6. Edit the code for the page to create the look you want.

Warning! Do not edit the name and password fields or any of the name = question number fields, or the data collection won’t work.

7. Upload the edited HTML to your own website. Note on Microsoft’s FrontPage: Use of FrontPage for editing your survey is not recommended. If you must do so, paste the HTML into FrontPage using the Paste Special: Paste as HTML command. All of the built-in formatting will be gone (for example, questions and answer fields are run together, rather than each question having its own line).