Electronic platforms like Survey Monkey, Qualtrics, and Question Pro can be useful tools for assessment, baseline studies, and simple information gathering, but have limitations for complex longitudinal studies, monitoring, and evaluation. While offering friendly interfaces for survey design and data collection, they provide only basic statistical analysis capabilities and require exporting data to other tools like SPSS or Excel for more robust analysis. These platforms reduce costs compared to printed surveys and make accessing internet-connected samples easier, but are not full monitoring and evaluation systems and may not be suitable for following indicators over time in complex, high-impact studies. Researchers should carefully consider the platform's functions and licensing options to determine what level of data collection, analysis and reporting it can adequately support for

1. Using electronic platforms for
Assessment , Baseline,
Monitoring and Evaluation?
The user experience with Pro Question , Survey Monkey, Qualtrics in
social research

2. The processes of assessment,
baseline, monitoring and
evaluation, usually aimed at
finding and using secondary data
thus saving the use of resources
and time , provided that the
information is current and tell
with any degree of reliability and
quality to infer or referral source.

3. In some situations, dominates the search and collection
of primary information , qualitative or quantitative ,
geographic or historical reconstruction type . Usually we
plan the use of tools to survey data in documentary
form , household surveys , satisfaction surveys ,
censuses or samples for recognition of a phenomenon
and subsequent monitoring.

4. Along with these tradicionamente known processes in
Marketing from the private sector and human resources in the
humanitarian sector and academia a vein of opportunity for the
use of electronic platforms rising as ODK collect and known
platforms and some novel as Survey Monkey is opened or
Question Pro, there are at least 5 brands ranked in the ranking
of the best for gathering information online , using coverage
and increased Internet access .

5. Among these five brands investigators , they can make a
review prior to having this type of survey that we focus ,
the details of sampling unit , sample design or census , the
volume of data to be handled and transferred for analysis.
Platforms like Survey Monkey or Question Pro , offer
friendly and relatively simple to assessment, information
gathering , market research , baselines of simple indicators
tools .

6. In the experience of trying to verify if these platforms are
viable longitudinal studies following groups samples at a
specific time , for monitoring and impact assessment will
kindly friendly options to design instruments that do not
require deep knowledge in programming , but bear in mind
that the options for statistical analysis are maintained in the
basic range , having to rely on tools for the exploitation of
more robust data as SPSS , STATA , EXCEL .
An interesting tool is the use of Panel of Experts to relate
Qualtrics views and longitudinal monitoring.

7. The cost and license usage is quite accessible and reduces the
cost of designing and printing material for surveys, the key is
access to the internet and design offices of insurance for each
survey. As platforms for gathering information highly
recommend it, keeping in mind that they are not as such
systems for monitoring and evaluation or sequential monitoring
of an indicator, but as an interface for data collection

8. Important is a fact that all platforms for online survey have a Demo where
the researcher can be sized as is the design of instruments, data analysis
options , results reports, basic graphics and security mechanism and
sending the survey mails or general link. It may also choose the type of
license that suit you and use shielded data in the cloud.
It is highly advisable to measure baseline option, but reduces its scope in
monitoring and evaluation processes where monitoring indicators and
major high-impact complexity is necessary