Before sending a survey, preview it to make sure everything looks and works as expected.
Previewing lets you see how your survey will look to respondents. You can make sure logic works the way you want it to, and invite people to review and comment on your survey before you send it.
There are limits to editing a live survey, so it's helpful to edit your survey design before collecting responses.
If you want to test your collector options, you can create a test collector.
Responses to your survey preview aren't recorded.
Once you’re done designing your survey, click Preview survey to open a preview of your survey in a new tab. From that page, you can:
You can choose the Survey Format to present your survey to respondents from the Design survey tab.
You can invite others to give feedback on your survey design by sharing the survey preview link or sending an invitation to comment. There can only be 100 comments per account, including deleted ones, on a survey.
If you want others to edit your survey design and work on surveys with you, check out our other collaboration features.
The Share for review button lets you share your survey preview for anyone to review, even if they don’t have a SurveyMonkey account. People can preview your survey and click on the comment icons to leave comments.
If you want to try out collecting responses, you can create a collector to use as a test. It includes your collector options and lets you experience the survey the way your respondents will see it.
When you take the survey using your test collector, it records test responses that you can view in the Analyze Results section. This way you can see how your data looks before you send out the survey.
To create a test collector:
TIP! If you're using Email Invitation or Text Message collectors, you can send a test email or test text to preview how your message appears in your email client or mobile text app.