When you want to conduct a survey, you need to create a project. Here you can define which dialogue has to be sent to which target groups and when this must happen. After all the information about a project has been defined, the Metatude system executes the survey automatically. It sends out invitations to members of the target group and collects data. It keeps track of response rates and sends out more invitations if needed. At all times during and after the project you can download the results in an appropriate format.
Ad-hoc and continuous projects
Metatude supports 2 kinds of projects:
1) Ad-hoc projects
2) Continuous projects
An ad-hoc is a one time project, people are invited only once. A continuous project is a project that runs for a longer time and people are invited in different periods. A continuous project is a research project that spans two or more (or even an indefinite number of) periods. Defining a continuous project allows an organisation to track developments over time. For example: If you want to measure employee satisfaction, you can do this once a year for everybody in your organization, but you can also invite every month just a part of the employees.
Flexibility of continuous projects
With Metatude you only have to define a continuous project once, and the software takes care of the rest. Each period it collects responses from pre-defined target groups in the quantities set by you. Not only is a continuous project easy to define, it is also flexible enough to meet changing conditions and requirements:
- You don't have to define an end date
- You can add and delete target groups from an active continuous project
- You can change the quantities of response you want from each target group
- You can change the email invitation text anytime
- All changes take effect immediately