Skipper Autocode

On the Survey Editor page, when you first add an Open-Ended Question, Form Question, or Open-Ended answer option, a message will appear at the bottom of the page.

• Keep the box checked to leverage Skipper Autocode during your survey analysis.

Note: If you did not enable Autocode before launching your survey and wish to use it, please contact your account manager or the Success team for assistance in enabling it.

To analyze and create codebooks using Skipper autocode, open the Coding pane in the left menu.

1. Click the drop-down menu beneath Autocoding and select the desired question.
2. Click the Skipper—autocode drop-down menu and select Skipper—autocode.
3. Click the Skipper—autocode button and Skipper will analyze all verbatim responses, creating a codebook with relevant codes, and assign those codes to responses accordingly.

Allow Skipper to analyze responses and assign codes to each response. Use an already existing codebook or manually create a codebook:

1. Click Add a new codebook.
2. Type a title into the New Codebook text box.
3. Click OK.
4. Click the drop-down menu beneath Autocoding and select the desired question.
5. Click the Skipper—autocode drop-down menu and select Apply Codebook.
6. Select the desired codebook from the Codebook drop-down menu.
7. Click Skipper—autocode to apply the codes.
   
   

Note: Filtering to a particular question in the Autocoding Pane will not necessarily reflect that question in the main Open Ends report—you must use the main Open End report drop-down to change the page view.

Use Skipper Cone, Finalize, and Apply to expand and refine an existing category. This process also allows you to create a codebook with a specific name for the category you wish to explore for a particular question. Use an already existing codebook or manually create a codebook:

1. Click the drop-down menu beneath Autocoding and select the desired question.
2. Click the Skipper—autocode drop-down menu and select Skipper Cone, Finalize, and Apply.
3. Select the desired codebook from the third drop-down menu.
4. Click the Skipper—autocode button to confirm the command. Skipper will compare the existing codebook structure to the responses in the selected question, and create a brand new codebook.

Note: The new codebook may contain some of the same codes, but will also contain other similar themes detected in the comparison.

As always, if you dislike the way Skipper handled something, you can edit or delete items as needed.

Codebooks:

1. Click the settings wheel to the right of a codebook to:

• Rename the codebook
• Clone codebook
• Copy codebook structure
• Delete codebook and codes from all reports

   2. With a specific question selected from the Verbatim drop-down, additional options appear:

• Skipper—apply to Q#
• Skipper—clone, finalize, and apply to Q#

Codes:

1. Click the settings wheel to the right of a code to:

• • Remove the code from the comments on the page
  • Remove code from all found comments
  • Rename the code
  • Assign to multiple comments
  • Delete the code itself from all reports