Whitepaper
When the survey tool expires: the migration guide
Secure the data, choose a successor, protect work in progress: a plan for universities and institutes through December 2026
What you get
- Export checklist per project: SPSS with labels, a CSV copy, questionnaire PDF, logic, field statistics
- A weighted criteria table for chairs, computing centres and institutes
- The fork for theses in the field: fieldwork ends before 30 November, or restart in the new tool
- Migration in five steps with week numbers, from inventory to training
- What belongs in the computing centre's procurement note, including an export clause
- A dated checklist from September to December 2026 with two hard deadlines
In short
At many universities, campus access to the survey tool that has carried teaching projects, theses and evaluations for years ends in December 2026. Whoever has exported, checked and filed every project by then switches tools calmly. Whoever leaves the export to the last week of December risks datasets without value labels, questionnaires without their logic and theses without data. This guide describes what exactly ends, lists the export per project, puts the successors side by side without ranking them and closes with a dated schedule from September to December. It is written for chairs, computing centres and institutes; students in the middle of a thesis get a chapter of their own.
- Who it is for
- Universities · Institutes & agencies
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages, with worksheets and checklists
Contents 9 chapters
- 01 What exactly ends, and when
- 02 Secure the data first: the export checklist
- 03 What a successor must be able to do
- 04 The options at a glance
- 05 The migration in five steps
- 06 The computing centre’s perspective
- 07 Protecting theses in progress
- 08 Checklist: migration plan with dates
- 09 Where DataLion fits in
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