Initial Considerations
There may come a time during your project when you no longer potential participants to respond to a survey. You can take a survey offline (i.e. de-activate the survey) which will cause any links (emailed, sent via SMS, public survey link) to result in a webpage that states "this survey is no longer active." You can re-activate the survey at any time and the existing links will result in the webpage with the survey content.
The Process
To take a survey offline, do the following:
- Click on "Online Designer" (Circled in red below)
- Click the button next to your survey, "Survey Settings" (Circled in Red below)
- Change "Survey Status" drop down to Survey Offline (Circled in red below)
- Scroll to the bottom and save changes
*Note - on this page you can also set an expiration date to automatically change a survey status to Offline on a specific date.
Additional Considerations:
Often, REDCap users utilize a REDCap project to post a public survey link of a survey and gain responses. If you wish to change the survey that is associated with that survey link, you'll need to de-activate the existing survey (the 1st survey on your designer list), then create a new survey and move it to the 1st position.