How to Add a Progress Bar to Your Surveys
A progress bar helps respondents know how long a survey is. This transparency improves survey response rates. ProProfs Survey Maker lets you add a progress bar to your surveys and make the time-spent transparent.
By adding a progress bar to your surveys, you can:
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Increase the completion rate of your surveys by informing users about the number of questions taken and remaining
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Facilitate a focused survey-taking procedure for respondents
Here’s what a progress bar will look like in your survey:
Percentage Progress Bar
Proportion Progress Bar
To Add a Progress Bar in Your Survey
Step 1: On your ProProfs Survey Maker dashboard,
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Click Settings
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Navigate to Progress Bar in the General tab
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Click to enable Progress Bar
Step 2:
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Choose the type of progress bar: Percentage or Proportion. Here we will choose the Percentage bar option.
- Save your changes and click ‘Create’ to the Survey Editor.
Step 3: Click ‘Preview’ to check the working of the progress bar.
Preview of a survey with a progress bar:
Now that you have learned how to add a progress bar, you can try adding it to your survey.