I am making a large scale survey that is to be distributed to different schools. Within each school there will be classes and its students. I have been looking everywhere for how to make a unique ID but can't seem to find a satisfactory answer. However, so far, I have used a piped text to generate a randomID (https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/common-use-cases-rc/assigning-randomized-ids-to-respondents/). Is this ID unique to every survey participant?
Additionally, is it possible to create a link for each school? So that when I have my data I will know that all respondents from this particular link is from this school, which they can send to their students. I do not yet know which schools will be participating so I cannot make a drop down list. Within the school, I also want to have IDs for each class. I do not think using "Personal Links" is a good idea because I do not have a contact list beforehand.
Generating SchoolID, ClassID, and a uniqueID for each student
+27No, random and unique are different things. You should use JavaScript or a webservice to create a unique id using a RFC 4122 compliant function.
To track school and class, you can add a url parameters/embedded data fields to your anonymous link. For example:
https://yourdomain.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_yoursurveyid?schoolId=schoolId&classId=classId
Add 'schoolId' and 'classId' as an embedded data fields at the beginning of your survey flow.
You might be better off having class as a question within the survey instead of specifying it in the url.
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