Tuesday, 7 June 2011

Online questionnaires

Want to make online questionnaires without the advertisement spam and account limitations some websites give you? The solution is easy! Create a free gmail account and go to docs.google.com

Then follow these few pointers:
1) Click "Create New". 

2) Select "Form".


3) Compose your questionnaire. 

a) There are 2 links that you must bookmark to your computer. The first, is the actual link of this page (in the search bar). The second is the link at the bottom. The first link allows you to edit your questionnaire whenever you need to. If you don't save it, you'll NEVER get to edit your questionnaire again. The second link is the one in black at the bottom of the page. This is what you give to your respondents.

b) Choose the type of responses that you want. 
 * Text is for short open-ended questions such as "age"
 * Scale is for Likert-scale responses
 * Checkbox allows respondents to choose more than 1 answer.

c) Checking the "Make this a required question" ensures that your respondents finish EVERYTHING before being able to submit the questionnaire to you.


4) More tips:
The pencil means to edit, the two page icon means to duplicate (Try it and be delighted at what you see :P) and the trash can means delete.

This is what your respondents would see once you pass them the second link.

Good luck!

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