1. Allison Nichols, Ed.D. Evaluation Specialist

2.  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.

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

13.  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.

16.  Click on the “Thematic” button.  Select a background.  Click on the “Save” button.

19.  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.

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

24.  Click “Summary” to view statistics for each of your questions.

26.  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.

27.  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.