Documentation

Account setup & sign-in

Start by creating a free Avenza account. You can register with email and password, or sign in with Google. After registration, verify your email — unverified accounts cannot sign in.

Plans, pricing & welcome offer

Avenza uses pay-per-survey activation rather than a monthly subscription. Prices are shown in Nigerian Naira (₦) for users in Nigeria, and US Dollars ($) for international users — detected automatically from your location.

Your first survey — three paths

Most researchers start with an existing questionnaire. Avenza supports three creation paths from the dashboard:

After parsing or generation, you'll always review questions in the Survey Builder before publishing. Payment is required at publish time (unless you're using your free welcome activation).

Builder layout

The builder has three main areas:

• Left panel — Parse confidence breakdown, question type counts, and document statistics from your upload.
• Centre canvas — Your survey title, introduction/consent text, and editable question list.
• Right panel — Survey settings, activation plan, and the Publish button.

Question types

Avenza detects and supports the question types commonly used in academic and professional research:

Editing questions

• Click any question card to expand and edit its text, type, and options.
• Questions flagged Medium or Low confidence during parsing should be reviewed before publishing.
• Use Add Question to insert new items anywhere in the list.
• Drag questions to reorder them (or use the move controls).
• Update the Introduction & Informed Consent section — respondents see this before answering.

Survey settings

Configure these in the right panel before publishing:

• Survey title (URL slug) — Creates your public link, e.g. avenzaai.com/s/your-study-title. Use a short, readable slug.
• Response limit — Set a maximum number of responses, or leave as Unlimited.
• Close date — Automatically stop accepting responses after a date.
• Allow anonymous responses — When on, respondent identity is not collected.
• One response per device — Prevents duplicate submissions from the same browser/device.
• Show progress bar — Displays completion progress to respondents during the survey.

Preview before publishing

Click Preview in the top bar to open the respondent view in a new tab. Walk through every question as your participants will see it. Check consent text, question order, and mobile layout.

Publishing checklist

Before you hit Publish, confirm each item below:

• ✓Survey title and introduction/consent text are complete and accurate
• ✓All Medium/Low confidence questions have been reviewed and corrected
• ✓Likert scales use consistent anchor labels across related items
• ✓Multiple-choice options are exhaustive and mutually clear
• ✓URL slug is readable and professional
• ✓Response limit and close date match your study protocol
• ✓Preview tested on mobile and desktop
• ✓Activation plan selected (Upload/Create or AI Generate) and payment ready

Click Publish & Get Link. After successful payment (or free welcome activation), your survey goes live immediately. Copy the share link from the dashboard or builder and distribute it to participants via email, WhatsApp, LMS, or QR code.

Accessing analytics

From your dashboard, click a survey card or open Analytics from the sidebar. Select the survey you want to analyse. Basic charts and response counts are available as soon as responses arrive — no extra purchase required for chart viewing on activated surveys.

Charts & dashboards

The Analytics page provides interactive visualisations for each question:

• Frequency bar charts — For categorical and Likert items, showing response distribution.
• Summary statistics — Mean, median, standard deviation for numeric and scale items.
• Cross-tabulation — Compare responses across demographic or grouping variables.
• Completion metrics — Response rate, drop-off points, and average completion time.
• AI Research Intelligence — AI-assisted narrative summaries of key findings (clearly labelled as AI-assisted).

Quantitative Analysis Word report

The full AI-assisted Quantitative Analysis report is a separate add-on (₦5,000 / $5). Purchase it from the Analytics page after you have collected responses and closed or paused collection. This is for closed-ended, Likert, and numeric data.

The Word report typically includes:

• Study overview and methodology summary
• Discussion of results with interpretation of key patterns
• Relationships between variables where applicable
• Implications for practice, policy, or further research
• Limitations and recommendations

CSV & Excel exports

Raw data exports are included with survey activation — no additional purchase needed:

• CSV export — One row per respondent, one column per question. Compatible with SPSS, R, Python, and Excel.
• Excel export (.xlsx) — Formatted spreadsheet with question labels in the header row, ready for further analysis or sharing with supervisors.

Export from the Analytics page or Reports section. Large surveys (thousands of responses) export in seconds. If you hit a size limit, use the contact form.

Analysis add-ons (current phase)