Question type "Multiple choice grid" / "Checkbox grid" (Likert scale, matrix)

[ei8fdb]

Which Forms version are you running? v2.0.0 beta 1 (build 20200505)

Nextcloud or ownCloud?: Nextcloud

Feature request

Add Likert/matrix question format

Rational

Having a way for a user to choose a scale answer is helpful when trying to gather data on a scale.

A Likert scale as described by wikipedia is:

a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires. It is the most widely used approach to scaling responses in survey research.

UI

There's lots of ways of doing this. Here's one option:

There are many options on how to display this. I've not thought too uch yet about it, but can help with designs if it helps.

Priority

High

As a user researcher who creates questionnaires having questions that can gather ranking data is very important - however I can understand this might be complicated/a lot of work to implement. There's also a lot of ways to implement this so I think it requires time to discuss.

Thoughts?

[skjnldsv]

@jancborchardt

[ei8fdb]

(Also: apologies - I didn't see there was a feature request template already there. Hence my malformed feature requests!)

[skjnldsv]

(Also: apologies - I didn't see there was a feature request template already there. Hence my malformed feature requests!)

I literally just added it because I could see all the incoming requests ;) You did good, no worries :hugs:

[jancborchardt]

Yep, we should absolutely have this, Google Forms has both:

• Multiple choice grid
• Checkbox grid

[ei8fdb]

@jancborchardt Let me know if I can help here too.

[jotoeri]

just for reference - Google Screenshot for this can be found here: https://github.com/nextcloud/forms/issues/555#issuecomment-711094687

[TheBitFighter]

As asked I would like to propose a variant of this question type where instead of text, the radio buttons form a linear scale from a set start number to a set end number. The ends of this scale have a description text probably beneath them. What I'm describing is basically the question type "Linear scale" from Google forms. We use this a lot in our post event evaluation forms. This would either be a variation of the originally proposed matrix or a derived question type. Sorry for the German. Cheers!

[kojid0]

Leaving this screenshot here: It could also be displayed as stars.

[stefan-franz]

That question type would very helpful for me.

[J-Rohault-dF]

As a suggestion, there could also be an “at most one tick per column” optional requirement like in Google Forms, which would allow for strict ranking of the options (I've seen it used several times for ranked-choice voting) — #1278 would be more straightforward for users but this would be a more general & flexible way of doing it