Learn the LimeSurvey Basics

Learn the LimeSurvey Basics

About LimeSurvey

LimeSurvey enables you to create and publish online surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the results to other applications. LimeSurvey can be used to conduct simple questionnaires with just a couple of questions or advanced assessments with conditionals and quota management.

Learn the basics of LimeSurvey

To help you get started: (1) we have set up the above overview guides which will help you get a fast orientation of LimeSurvey. (2) After you have a basic understanding you can deep dive in our more advanced documentation.  

Each section/topic includes an overview as well as more in-depth articles with details of the various functionality associated with that topic.

In the example screenshot below: (1) there is an overview of the Structure tab and (2) the more advanced documentation of the Structure tab is listed separately under different headings.



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