Thursday, October 19, 2006

More on Survey Tools

From yesterday's DALL meeting...

A question was asked on how to suppress the IP addresses in SurveyMonkey so the suvey is totally anonymous. To do this, contact support@surveymonkey.com and ask them to suppress the IP addresses on your surveys. SurveyMonkey can do this on an each survey or on all your surveys.

I also wanted to share a few things on how to select a good survey tool. Some items to consider when looking for survey software is:

  • Ease of Use
  • Question Formats
  • Distribution Options
  • Automating the Data Collection
  • Reporting
  • Customer Support and Training

Pearson NCS has a great handout on this subject. Check it out at http://www.pearsonncs.com/survey/download/top-10.pdf

Last week I attended the HALL Fall Seminar and found out it is possible to create a survey on Adobe Pro 7.0 (full version). "Create a Word document, save it to Adobe then add radio buttons, text boxes, check boxes, etc. You can add a mailto: feature at the end and there's some way to command it to tally the data so that you can pull and print reports." --Catherine Whitney, TKLaw in Houston

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