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# Glossary in Survey

A list of specific terms and their definitions used in the Survey module.

- **Respondents:** Employees or any individuals who respond to the survey.
- **Author:** The one who creates and manages an engagement survey, including managing respondents.
- **Co-author:** The author can make other account admins and app profile admins as co-authors, allowing them the same abilities as an author.
- **Push to template library:** The author can push the survey template to the template library and make it available to other account admins and app profile admins.
- **Assignment:** The author can share a survey in the form of assignments.
- **Recurrence:** The author can schedule the assignments to recur at regular intervals.
- **Question type:** The author can use various question types in a survey to gather responses from respondents. These question types are designed to capture specific data. It includes: 
    - **Multiple choice:** Allow respondents to select single or multiple options.
    - **Rating scale:** Allow respondents to rate their opinions on a scale of one to five.
    - **Employee net promoter score (eNPS):** eNPS measures employee satisfaction and engagement by categorizing responses into three groups: detractors (0-6), passives (7-8), and promoters (9-10).
    - **Text:** Allow respondents to provide open-ended responses with text input.
    - **Matrix:** Allow respondents to select an answer for each row inside a question grid.
    - **Date/Time:** Allow respondents to provide date and time information.

 

 

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