Discussion questions are a great way to get qualitative feedback from both individual respondents and groups of respondents. Like an Open or Essay question, Discussion questions allow respondents to give a full, meaningful response without the possible constraint of pre-determined (closed-ended) responses.

This question type ...

Allows respondents to easily access the responses of other respondents
Encourages respondents to engage with each other on the topic within the Discussion
Allows platform moderator(s) to probe respondents and notify respondents of new moderator probes

Keep in mind, once you use a Discussion question in your activity, your activity automatically becomes a focus group.

Programming Steps

From the New Question dropdown menu, select Discussion.

Next, enter and update the following:

Question text and a label, if desired (labels are not shown to respondents but can be used for back-end reporting).
Select checkbox if you want to make the question required (respondents are required to answer the Discussion question before they can continue to the next survey screen).

Other options include:

Select clip icon to attach an image or video, if desired.

Click FINISHED to save the question.

Shown below is the programming for a Required Discussion question, where each respondent will be able to respond before seeing how others answered the question: