Quick Start Guide
Welcome to the Campus Housing Index
Benchmarking Survey
 Section 1 - Profile
 Section 2 - Operations
 Section 3 - Compensation
Getting Started
 Overview
 This guide describes how to get started with your survey.
 Logging in
 All users will access the benchmarking platform from the ACUHO-I website, using
your existing ACUHO-I username and password. The link to the login page is:
http://www.acuho-i.org/campushousingindex
 Log in and out of the platform account as often as desired, enter your data, and
save your responses on each page. Each time you select “Save,” you are
submitting your organization’s data to the system and may access it again at
any time for editing or benchmarking purposes.
 Help
 Once you have logged in, click on the Help link in the top right corner of the platform
to access support documentation and contact information.
Welcome Message
 Download
Quick Start
Guide and
FAQs
 Download
Data
Collection
Worksheet in
choice of 3
formats
Survey Home Page
Information Box
 A total of 50% survey completion is required
for free basic access to results.
 Click on the “View Your Total Index
Completion” link to see your total
percentage completion.
 Section 3 – Compensation is restricted and
only visible to Senior Housing Officers
(SHOs).
Section 1 – Profile: REQUIRED
 This section contains important
demographic questions about your
organization that will be used in
benchmarking reports and results.
 Be sure to complete all questions in this
section FIRST.
Section 2 – Operations
 This section contains questions about the
operations of your organization.
Section 3 – Compensation
 This section contains questions about your
organization’s salary programs.
Click on Section 1 – Profile to get started
Gateway Pages
The Gateway Page is the access point for each Survey Section in the Platform
Toolbar and menu navigation

Home – This tab returns you to the Survey
Home page, or use the dropdown menu to
select another survey section.

My Organization – Use this tab for answering
all of the questions, in the selected survey
section.

Click on Profile Overview to get started.
Tracking your Progress
Track your progress by viewing the percentage of questions that you have
answered for each question group.
Tracking your Progress (cont.)
Track your overall progress by viewing the progress bar at the bottom of the gateway
page.
 Your progress statement will indicate the minimum percentage completion for
accessing comparison and reporting.
 A total of 50% survey completion is required for free basic access to results.
The View Total Index Completion link provides your combined percentage completion
for all 3 sections of the survey.
 You may not be able to achieve 100% completion because not all questions will apply
to your organization.
 For survey questions asking for numeric data that do not apply to your organization,
enter “0” to increase the percentage of questions answered. The more data you input
into the system, the more useful your benchmarking results will be.
Question Organization
Questions are carefully organized into major categories.
 Each category has sub-categories called question groups.
 Question groups can be selected and questions can be answered in any order.
 Within the major categories, use the convenient tabs to move between the
different question groups.
 Be sure to click the Save or Save & Next button at the bottom of every page
before moving to another question group to assure your answers are saved.
Entering Data
 Enter numbers without abbreviation. For example, enter 1000, not 1K.
 Enter all monetary values in US Dollars.
 As you enter data, the entry box turns GREEN, indicating that new data
has been provided and must be saved by clicking the Save or the Save
& Next button at the bottom of every page.
Entering Compensation Data
 The Compensation
question group is
“templated.” This makes
answering the same
series of questions very
easy.
 For every category of
positions, select the
positions your
organization employs.
 Then, click Save & Next
to enter data for each
position selected.
Entering Compensation Data (cont.)
1. The dropdown box displays the
positions you selected on the
previous page.
2. Answer the questions for the
position displayed.
3. Click Save & Next at the bottom of
the page to answer the questions for
the next position.
4. Continue in this manner until you
have answered all the questions for
every position in the dropdown box.
5. Review your answers for any option
by selecting it in the dropdown list at
any time.
6. When you have answered all the
questions, click Save & Next to
continue with the survey.
Saving your Answers
 Choose Save to save your answers but stay on this page.
 Choose Save & Next to save your answers and proceed to the next survey
section.
 Choose Cancel to abandon data.
 There isn’t any final submit action. Saving your answers on each page
stores the data.
Thank you for viewing this Quick Start Guide.
If you have further questions, please contact the ACUHO-I benchmarking
team at [email protected].