The RKStudio survey editor provides a number of types of steps you can use in your surveys.
The following sections summarize the different step types. Details on how to configure and use these steps can be found in the individual step type articles.
Basic Steps
These steps are the backbone of any RKStudio survey, providing instructions and capturing participant responses.
| Step Type | Summary |
|---|---|
| Instruction | Presents simple text content. |
| Question | Presents a single question and saves the response. |
| Form | Presents multiple questions in a single step and saves the responses. |
| Image Capture | Prompts the participant to take a picture with their device's camera and saves the image. |
| Video Capture | Prompts the participant to take a video with their device's camera and saves the video. |
| Video Instruction | Presents a video. |
Special Steps
These steps have special uses.
| Step Type | Summary |
|---|---|
| Completion | A special instruction step that tells the participant they're done and prompts them with "Done" instead of "Next". |
| Web View | If you need functionality beyond what the basic steps provide, you can use HTML, CSS and Javascript to create your own custom step. |
Consent Steps
Consent steps help you to obtain a participant's informed consent. Typically you will use them when generating a consent survey for your project.
| Step Type | Summary |
|---|---|
| Visual Consent | Allows the participant to review the sections of your consent document in a step-by-step sequential fashion. |
| Consent Review | Allows the participant to review and sign your consent document. |
| Consent Sharing | A special question step that asks the participant for their data sharing preferences. |
Active Tasks
RKStudio Active Tasks require their own separate surveys. They are not step types. See Active Tasks for details.
Additional Topics
You may also want to review:
- Using Dynamic Fields - Describes how to use custom fields and other dynamic values in your survey steps.
- Setting Custom Fields from Survey Answers - Describes how to save an answer value into a custom field.
- Setting Demographic Fields From Survey Answers - Describes how to save an answer value into a participant demographic like age or address.