Jisc Online Surveys

Online Surveys is an easy-to-use tool for creating surveys. Run and supported by Jisc, it is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK.

The University of Edinburgh has a license to add its users for access to the service, although does not actually provide support for it directly. 

Applying for access

The Online Surveys access form should be completed by:

• Supervisors on behalf of students who are requiring access.
• University staff members who needs access themselves.

If you are a student, please ask your supervisor to complete this form:

Logging in

Privacy Statement 

The information you provide will be used by the University to provide access to the Jisc Online Surveys tool. The University uses an external company to provide a system that will allow users to create, manage and analyse surveys. The University will use an external company to process information about you on the University’s behalf. The University remains responsible for the information and will ensure it is kept securely. We are using information about you because you have given us your consent.

Information about you will be shared with the vendor (Jisc) who manage and maintain the service on Amazon Web Services with the EEA (ROI).

The service will hold the personal data you provided us for the length of the contract with Jisc which is ongoing. If the contract is terminated all data will be deleted 60 days after the termination date.

If you have any questions, please:

Data Protection responsibilities when using Online Surveys 

Survey owners are responsible for any data collated and should review whether what type of data is needed including whether personal data will be collected. In particular, the Online Surveys tool has a feature called Survey Files. This may never be used for presenting personal data, since information shared via this mechanism will be publicly available.

Information regarding the types of data and the survey owners responsibilities regarding any data collected can be found via the University Data Protection webpages:

Data Protection Home

Information Services strongly advise that prior to any use of the Online Survey tool to collate data the following steps should be followed:

• Complete the ‘Information Security Essential’ and ‘Data Protection Training’ Courses. More info can be found here: Information Security Training
• Speak to local data champion for advice on the collation and storage of data: Data Protection Champions and Steering Group
• Privacy notice should be created for each survey, guidance can be found here: Privacy Notices

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