Online Surveys Jacqui James Malcolm Roberts School of Education

Purpose? To collect information from respondants Tool: Online survey tools –Free Online survey sites such as Survey Monkey Restricted features –Web 2.0 tools such as Google Apps Fully featured without the Glitz Reporting not as comprehensive Online Survey’s

Survey Elements 1.Relevancy 1.Questions are relevant to what you want to find out? 2.Are your respondents in a position to answer the questions? 3.Are you familiar with the questions? 4.Are you familiar with the objectives? 5.What information is needed?

Relevancy Know kinds of information needed Know the Objectives Be familiar with the Questions

Questions should be: Clear Direct Brief

Constructing good questions Be Brief Be Objective Be Simple Be Specific

Google Applications Free to use Comes with Gmail Easy to construct questions Easy to share survey Analysis is simple and exportable to Excel Spam free and owned by you

Plan your survey Storyboard your survey on paper first, showing questions and question types etc..... This is easier than creating a survey on the fly....

Sign up to Gmail sign up for a new account here if needed. Or logon if you are an existing Gmail user

Click on Documents to access Forms

Click on Create new : then select Form

Click here to give your form (survey) a title.

First give your survey a title and information about your survey.

My first question is an example of a text based question. Respondents fill in their answer in a text box. I have provided some Help Text to assist in answering the question. I have also made this a required question. When satisfied click Done.

Question 1. Example of text based question

For your next question Click add item

Question 2 Example of multiple choice Click Add item and then Multiple Choice

Fill in your questions and choices Note I am making each question a required question. That means the respondents cannot move on unless the question is answered. Then click Done.

Fast Food Survey progress.

Question 3 Checkboxes

Fill in the checkbox question, help text and check box options. Click Done when finished.

Check box question

Add Item Choose from a list.

Write your question and choices. Click Done when finished.

When your respondent clicks on arrow they can make a choice.

Question Scale

Complete the question title, help text and choose scale number.

Fill in your Columns and Rows for your question.

Grid question

Finally a paragraph text question.

Complete your question title, help text. Click Done when finished

Paragraph question complete.

Note: you can edit, duplicate or delete a question here.

Now my survey is complete: how do I distribute to my respondents?

You have three options: 1. a link to respondents 2.Place a link in a moodle web page 3.Embed a link in a moodle web page or label

Click on this form then enter addresses Then click send.

To embed: click more actions and Embed

Copy the embed code: Control V

In a Moodle Block: click add a resource: insert a label

Click on Toggle HTML source button

Paste in the embed code and click the toggle button again.

Click on Save and Return to course

Survey is now embeded in Moodle ready for students to complete.

Students click submit when finished.

When survey has been filled in click see responses

Summary is displayed.

Spreadsheet view: useful for analysis.

End of Presentation Enjoy your surveying!