With so many LMS (Learning Management System) to pick from lately, sometimes we tend to choose not quite the best one for our needs. Of course since we absolutely love open source virtual platforms we consider mostly presenting just tools that fits this area. Today we are going to write about an open source platform called LimeSurvey. LimeSurvey is a perfect tool for creating surveys and quizzes and of course it’s free and open source.

Features

• Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
• Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database)
• Unlimited number of participants to a survey
• Multi-lingual surveys
• User-management
• 28 different question types with more to come
• WYSIWYG HTML editor
• Quotas management
• Integration of pictures and movies into a survey
• Creation of a printable survey version
• Conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (Skip Logic / Branching)
• Piping and Micro-tailoring using a powerful expression engine
• Re-usable editable answer sets
• Ready-made importable questions
• Assessment surveys
• Anonymous and Not-Anonymous survey
• Open and closed group of participant surveys
• Optional public registration for surveys
• Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
• Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
• Cookie or session based surveys
• Template editor for creating your own page layout
• Extended and user-friendly administration interface
• Back-office data entry possibility
• Survey expiry dates for automation
• Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV, PDF, SPSS, R, queXML and MS Excel format
• Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
• Screen Reader Accessiblity
• W3C compliance
• Supporting more than 50 different languages in frontend and backend
• A detailed manual is available in several languages in our Online Manual
• WordPress integration (SurveyPress)
• Drupal integration (LimeSurvey Sync)

Areas of application

• Ordinary marketing surveys
• Psychological tests
• Customer satisfaction surveys after buying from an online shop
• General data collection for example by phone at call centers
• Quality management (inter alia in the field)
• Query of candidate qualifications
• Order Form for Product Samples
• Invitation management for events (“I come with X people, we would like to eat Y and Z need overnight accommodations)
• Theory test for Driving School
• Review of lectures at universities
• Event tool like for college fests

We can confidently say that this open source virtual system is one of our favorite picks when it comes to building a survey or quiz.