Guide for Qualtrics

Qualtrics, a HIPAA and FERPA-compliant online survey platform makes it easy to generate surveys, process data, and even create reports that help you share your findings. The service can be used to support academic research, teaching, institutional business, and to reinforce key decisions with insights from colleagues, customers, employees, and more.

Getting started

Qualtrics is available to UCLA Health faculty, staff, and students at no cost with the use of your Mednet email address and password. 

Log into Qualtrics

Create an account

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Creating a project basics

A typical project consists of a survey, a distribution record, responses, and reports. Start with any project type available to you. 

Survey builder basics

Surveys are created and edited in the survey builder. Leverage the features available to you to garner the most responses.

Distribute and analyze basics

Qualtrics provides you with multiple methods to distribute your survey and will help you collect and analyze the responses. 

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Advanced features

Qualtrics offers a multitude of advanced features that can help you gain the insights you need with less effort on your part. Below we've listed a few features that we think may help you become a Qualtrics pro.

Looking for additional information?

Contact Qualtrics Customer Support for troubleshooting help and questions or visit the Qualtrics XM Basecamp to access on-demand training videos, live training sessions, and documentation. 

To get started:

  1. Visit the Qualtrics Customer Support page or the Qualtrics XM Basecamp website.
  2. Select the Sign in with SSO option. 
  3. Type in uclahs as your Organization ID.
  4. Log in with your AD credentials. 


Recommended Training: 

Learn to Use Qualtrics   

Building a Survey 

Browse our UCLA Health IT events page to find an upcoming Qualtrics event that might help you on your journey to setting up great surveys.

You can also check out the recording of our latest Introduction to Qualtrics webinar for a quick refresher on the basics. We've included timestamps on the video to indicate the different topics we covered so feel free to find the section that most interests you!

Advanced Qualtrics: Part 1 

This event was held on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 as the first part of our Advanced Qualtrics series. Find links to the topics we covered below. 

Advanced Qualtrics: Part 2

This event was held on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 as the second part of our Advanced Qualtrics series.

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