With this method of administration, you import email addresses (and names or unique identifiers) into Transform. After clicking Import and then OK, Transform sends an email directly to the participant (you have the option of adding text to the Mind Garden email). The participant clicks on the invitation link and is taken to a login page, where they enter their email address and create a password. They go directly into the survey from the login screen.

• Advantage: This option gives you as survey administrator the most control over who responds to your survey.
• Disadvantage: Requires login to take the survey, which many respondents do not like to do.
• Advantage: We can turn on an option for you to "send to all Pending (incomplete) participants and raters" a reminder with the click of a button. This is a time saver for you. Caution: overuse of this feature may cause potential respondents to become irritable.

With this method of administering a survey, you will use your own email program to send the survey invitations. You import participant email addresses (and/or names) into Transform. The system will not send invitations. The participant will receive an invitation email from you and will click on a link to a login page. They will login, set a password, and go directly into the survey.

• Advantage: You have control over who takes your survey (by email identity), and the system will not let the same email address enter the survey more than once.
• Disadvantage: You cannot "send to all Pending (incomplete) participants and raters" a reminder with the click of a button because the invitations are sent from your email program.

With this method of administering a survey, we provide a link to your campaign that you may distribute. When a participant clicks on the special key link they go to a login page, provide an email address, create a password, and can access the survey.

You don't need to import names and email addresses into the campaign because each participant provides this information at login. Contact us to restrict your special key link for use only with certain email address domains.

This method writes the participant email address into the data file (you can request suppression of email addresses if desired, and if a report is generated no name will appear in the report).

• Advantage: Personal reports can be generated because an email identity exists for each participant.
• Advantage: Special key link can be restricted for use only with certain email address domains – contact us to enable this feature.
• Disadvantage: If an unrestricted link becomes available via internet search, anyone can take your survey and use the licenses you purchased.
• Disadvantage: You may run out of licenses and participants will be blocked from entering and responding to the survey.

The appearance of the key link is as follows: transform.mindgarden.com/login/key/xxxxxx where "xxxxxx" is the campaign ID. Note that this link does not automatically appear on the customer's page and MUST be provided by Mind Garden staff.

This works like a regular campaign with reports and data (and for custom surveys).

With this method of administering a survey, we provide a link to your campaign that you may post, which requires no login. This is perceived by participants to be the least invasive method of taking a survey, because it does not require them to provide an email identity.

The No-Login method is designed to work with single rater instruments.

• Advantage: Ease and convenience for your participants to take the survey, and with complete anonymity
• Advantage: Participants use one of your purchased licenses when they open the survey. Licenses without associated data are recycled after one day.
• Disadvantage: A participant may respond to the survey multiple times (although Transform will not allow more than one survey response per browser per computer). Also, you will not know who is responding to your survey and the licenses may be used up by anyone who has the survey link. Be especially careful where you post the link because if it becomes available via internet search, your licenses may be used by unintended participants and quickly exhausted.

The link is provided by campaign, and is found on the campaign's participant tab. No login is required but a cookie is written that is associated with that browser and computer for 30 days. If a participant completes the assessment with that browser and computer, and tries to take the survey again, they will see a message that the assessment has been completed. If another browser or computer is used, it is a whole new assessment and the participant can take the survey again.

If you wish to have multiple participants take the survey on the same browser and computer, the cookie needs to be deleted to start a new survey.

Note: To provide personal reports when using the No-Login Link method requires customizations for a fee and purchase of report licenses.

With this method of administering a survey, you will send to Mind Garden a file containing several hundred or several thousand participant emails. Mind Garden will input these emails into Transform for you. You receive a link to email to your participants to access the survey. Participants can only gain access to your survey if their email address has been added via the bulk upload. With this method, you pay only for participants who actually login, and a license is counted whether they complete the survey or not. (Minimum purchase of 500 licenses is required.) Bulk upload is not available for multi-rater instruments like the MLQ.

For customers who want to take advantage of our online scoring (raw scale scores by respondent), but whose respondents use paper and pencil surveys, we allow the key-in method. The customer simply creates false identities in the system and proceeds through the survey one respondent at a time. Data can be downloaded at any time.

Purchase Transform™ Survey Hosting for this method. For customers who have already purchased License to Reproduce, we can invoice you for the difference.