SurveyMonkey.com
because knowledge is everything
Discussion points:
Why would you use a survey tool?
How would the information be used?
What are the benefits and pitfalls of using surveys to
collect information?
Suzie Vesper - 2008. Feel free to use!

Getting set up

Create an account
Make sure you
select correct
time zone

Watch the video tutorials

Create new survey
Useful to have
this option
Only available
on upgrade

Survey Design

Choose theme
Build your own
Ready made
themes

Add questions
From scatch
OR copy and paste
Examples
are VERY
helpful

My common question types
Rating Scale
Multiple Choice (one
answer only)
Comment/ Essay Box

Multiple choice - single answer
Display options

Rating Scale - single answer
Row choices are what
they are rating Column Choices are
the rating scale
Even number of
rating options forces
an opinion

Essay box - open ended
You can change the height (number of lines)
and width (chars wide) of the box
Textbox is only one line so tend to use essay
box for open ended questions.

Survey Options

Advanced - Skip Logic
Different paths through a survey based on
responses to questions (only if upgraded)
Great to allow for principals,
teachers, lead teachers and facilitators
to all be able to take the same survey
but have sections specific to them.

Collecting Responses

Setting up a collector
I generally use
this option
Normally name link the same as survey

Setting up a collector
Always use the
top link - even
for wiki pages
etc

Collector Settings and restrictions
In a workshop setting, I
normally pick yes as some
people may be sharing.
If you upgrade, you get this
option which I use to
highlight online resources.

Survey Analysis

View Summary
Quantitative results will look like this

View Summary
Qualitative results will look like this
Click view
Will open individual survey
that includes this response

Browse Responses
Look through each individual survey response
Move between each
response

Filter Responses
Filter based on responses to questions (upgrade only)
Great for separating out individual school
responses to feed back their specific data
When filter applied and
download requested, it
will only download
filtered data.

Download Responses
Can be done in a range of formats (upgrade only)
I tend to choose a summary in PDF
form

Presentation by Suzie Vesper
from CORE education
Want to get in touch?
suzievesper@gmail.com