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No Red Star Option
Posted by survey 06/19/2008 12:00 AM PDT
In many programs I have used, the red star associated with required questions is repeatedly criticized by pre-testers as an unattractive way to represent such questions. Personally, I think it is appropriate in some cases, such as collecting form information like addresses and zipcodes. But for more involved questionnaires others have told me that it is a distraction. It would be useful to have a global option where questions that are required do not have to show a red star. Even better would be to allow people to choose the color and type of indicating character they would like, including no character at all.
Idea # 77Category/Tags : Survey Development (39) required  questions (2)  red  star  
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R.T.
06/19/2008
Thank you for bringing this up. I've had responders also commenting on the distraction. When I initially prepared our survey to go online, I was interested in an small/tiny exclamation point (not red!) as the required marker rather than the star. But your suggestion of offering options for show/no show and choice of option is appreciated!
R.T.
06/19/2008
Sorry for the misuse of words in my sentence. Trying to do too many things at once! The choice of icon is a suggestion I support.
panel
06/30/2008
In my browser the colour for the stars are different (the one by the progress bar explaining what it is and the star next to the question...just adding to the confusion). Please force them to be the same colour, whatever colour is decided....
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