OVERVIEW of ONLINE SURVEY TOOLS

AT COMMONS 2004

Lynne Crandall, University of Michigan (lynnec@umich.edu)

Philomena Meechan, University of Michigan (phili@umich.edu)

Diana Perpich, University of Michigan (dperpich@umich.edu)

WORKSHOP URL: http://www.umich.edu/~phili/ES2004overviewsurveys.htm

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

I. TAKING surveys: we will work through various surveys to familiarize ourselves with each.

II. CREATING surveys: discussion of content options

III. COLLECTING and ANALYZING data: discussion of tabulation and record keeping features.

IV. CREATE YOUR OWN SURVEY

TAKING SURVEYS

1. FREE ONLINE SAMPLE:http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?id=36797

TOOL: http://freeonlinesurveys.com/

2. FLASHLIGHT SAMPLE: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS26074

CHINESE TEST: http://CTLSilhouette.wsu.edu/surveys/ZS13972

TOOL: http://flashlightonline.wsu.edu

3. SURVEY SAMPLE: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=51861216805

MONKEY TOOL: http://www.surveymonkey.com

4. UM.LESSONS SAMPLE: http://lessons.ummu.umich.edu/2k/ES_Survey/survey_001

TOOL: http://lessons.ummu.umich.edu/2k

Watch for Sakai Assessment Manager (aka SAM, formerly NAVIGO)

First request an  Indiana University  password  http://itaccounts.iu.edu/

Then go to the demo at http://demo.navigoproject.org/ .

5. SITEMAKER SAMPLE: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/lrctest/survey_plus

TOOL: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/

OTHER SAMPLE:

2004 UM Student Survey on Information Technology

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/itsurs/files/2004ss3.htm

6. FILEMAKER SAMPLE: http://web.lrc.lsa.umich.edu

TOOL: FileMakerPro software, not a website

WEB FORM SAMPLE: http://www.umich.edu/~phili/webformsurvey.html

HTML TOOL: Dreamweaver or GoLive, for example.

UM CGI TOOL for reporting data via email: http://www.umich.edu/~umweb/how-to/cgi-scripts/htmail.html

UM CGI TOOL for exporting data to spreadsheet: http://www.umich.edu/~umweb/how-to/cgi-scripts/survey.html

ADDITIONAL SURVEY TOOLS

QUIA SAMPLE: http://www.quia.com/sv/1737.html

TOOL: http://www.quia.com/

ZOOMERANG SAMPLE:

http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?4720VA9MS3A0BBFJ8KX4MASX

TOOL: http://www.zoomerang.com/

LINKS TO 33 OTHER COMPETITORS / TOOLS http://www.surveymonkey.com/Pricing.asp

HANDY HTML for …

… linking to url

< A HREF="http://www.fodors.com" TARGET=BLANK>vacation </A>

where fodors is the page you want to go to when user clicks on the word vacation.

target = blank opens in new window so user doesn’t lose the survey page

(could also be link to image, audio, video that you want to open in new window)

… embedded linking to image

< IMG SRC=http://www.umich.edu/~phili/bike.jpg>

where url refers to an image (bike.jpg) in my personal web space(~phili)

…. embedding audio/video <

< EMBED SRC="3bvie.mov" WIDTH="141" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" CONTROLLER="TRUE" AUTOPLAY="FALSE" LOOP="FALSE">

… specifying charset and directionality for non-Roman languages:

< HTML>

< HEAD>

< meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=GB-2312">

< HTML dir=rtl>

< HEAD>

< META content="text/html; charset=windows-1255" http-equiv=Content-Type>

* NOTE: HTML above is broken with space after <
you will need to remove space if you copy and paste

WORKSHOP EVALUATION

http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/ES2004/