Create Online Surveys for Free by Using Google Documents Allison Nichols, Ed.D. Evaluation Specialist

Purpose In this workshop we'll explore creating an online survey using Google Documents. You don't need to buy expensive software in order to create a professional online survey. In fact, you can build your own survey without spending any money, and with very little effort and time.

Let’s Get Started If you don’t already have one, get a Google email account by: Pointing your browser to http://documents.google.com Or clicking the “Documents” link from any Google search page (google.com).

After entering your questions: Click “Save” at the upper right of the window Edit the confirmation window that is offered to users after completing the survey, click “Edit Confirmation” from the “More Actions” menu.

Adding a Thematic Background Click on the “Thematic” button. Select a background. Click on the “Save” button.

Distributing the Questionnaire Click “Email this Form” on the menu bar This generates an email with the link to your survey form. Or click “Embedded” from the “More Actions” menu. Google displays a URL that you may copy/paste into your email or to use on your webpage.

View Spreadsheet Google Documents collects all responses and stores them in a Google Documents Spreadsheet. Click “Spreadsheet” from the “See Responses” tab.

View A Summary Click “Summary” to view statistics for each of your questions.

Download Data to a Different Format When in the spreadsheet format, click “File” and select download to… Select Excel, Text, PDF From an Excel file you can create other types of graphs that can be inserted into a Word or other word processing software.

Sharing Your Document Click on “Share” in the right hand corner of the page. Type in the email addresses of the persons that you want to share with and give them permission to edit the document.

QUESTIONS???

ENTER YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE INTO GOOGLE DOCUMENTS