Reading your results

Open your admin link and the dashboard breaks each question down the moment a response comes in. There is nothing to configure and no report to generate: what you see is the current state of every answer submitted so far.

How each question type is shown

A multiple choice question shows a bar for every option with how many respondents picked it, and an option nobody has picked yet still shows, at zero. The Sort options and Show menus above the grid apply to every multiple choice question at once: sort by survey order or by most votes, and show counts or percentages. A rating question shows the full 1 to 10 distribution, bar by bar, plus the average and median. A free text question lists every answer as it was typed, newest first. Its card shows the five newest, and Show all opens the rest.

To keep a question out of view, click the eye-slash button on its card, and Hidden (n) brings it back. Want any of this on the big screen for a room rather than just reading it yourself? See presenting results live for Present, the view built for an audience.

What a low count means

A handful of responses is normal, not a sign that something is broken. Most surveys on rifts.to run for a single presentation, meeting, or class, and stop collecting once the moment has passed. If your count reads zero when you expected responses, check why you have no responses yet before assuming the dashboard itself is at fault.

Results update while you watch

You do not need to refresh the page. Each new response is pushed to the dashboard as it arrives, which is what makes it useful to leave open on a second screen during a live session. If that stops happening mid-session, the fix is almost always a stale connection reconnecting on its own rather than a lost response. See why live results stop updating for how to tell the difference.

Questions people skipped

If a question was optional and someone left it blank, that respondent is simply not counted for that question. A multiple choice question's percentages are worked out against however many people answered that specific question, not against your total response count, so two questions on the same survey can show different denominators when some respondents skipped one of them.

Closed and expired surveys stay readable

Closing a survey yourself, or a free survey reaching the end of its 7-day window, only stops new answers from coming in. The dashboard keeps showing everything already collected, in the same detail, for as long as you keep the survey.

Getting every answer out

The dashboard is built for reading results at a glance, not for analysis across many responses. Exporting the full set of answers to a spreadsheet, so you can filter, sort, and cross-reference outside the dashboard, is part of the paid plan.