Hi all,
At the end of the higher education meeting today, we discuss some product feature requests, and I brought up a feature request I put in regarding easier ways to access survey collaboration information.
I found the request if you would like to upvote it! (Idea ID: EV-3387)
Overview: The ability to export a list of all users a survey has been collaborated with, including collaborator’s specific permissions.
This was a description of one of our research center’s use cases, which I added to the product idea: “[Research Center] provides survey and experimental support to researchers across 32 departments. We consult and assist with development of surveys used in graduate student, staff, and faculty research projects. We also are the primary contacts for survey development for several large research centers that run dozens of survey instruments at a time. As a result, we own or have access to around 1000 surveys. When graduate students or research staff in labs we support transfer positions or leave the institution, we often need to remove or modify their access to surveys we own. We have also been asked to audit files for access in situations where there is research conflict or potential research misconduct. Right now, the process to audit and remove permissions requires manually sorting through surveys, determining the owner(s), and having those staff members individually click through each survey instrument to remove or evaluate permissions. We keep reports currently for large research projects about which students have which permissions, but those require manual updating each time a change is made to keep them in sync - this is an arduous task. Having the ability to pull permission reports for all surveys we own by specific collaborator would improve our ability to audit access to projects and to act quickly and thoroughly in situations where swift action to remove or replace permissions is necessary. It would also mirror other security procedures where routine audits of collaborator access are done to monitor and remove access when no longer needed.”
Best wishes,
Abbey
