In WebGUI 7.6 the Survey asset has been entirely rewritten from the ground up. Longtime users of WebGUI will probably note that the old survey was powerful, but tedious to build surveys due to all the page refreshing that was required. The new survey makes heavy use of javascript and ajax in it's builder. This allows you to build amazingly complex surveys without a single page refresh. It feels like you're working in a native desktop application.

The new survey has all the old favorite features like quiz mode and survey branching, but it brings dozens of new features with it as well. For example, there are lots of new scales like certainty (certain, unsure), education (elementary, doctoral), ideology (liberal, conservative). You can also now do multiple choice answers.

There are now terminators, so you can stop the survey upon a given question. This allows for help desk like functionality leading the user through a bunch of questions until you're able to resolve their problem.

Branching has been expanded to allow a branch not only to a specific question, but to a specific section. You can also use the answer to a previous question in the text of a follow up question.

I've only scratched the surface of what the new Survey asset is capable of, but trust me, if you're in to surveys, this will blow your mind. This version of the survey now brings our feature set at least in line with, if not surpassing most commercial survey tools on the market today. Yes, it's even more feature rich and easier to use than SurveyMonkey.

We're still working on kicking out all the bugs, and we have a bit more templating work to do, but if you're interested, you can kick the tires of the new Survey on the beta server.