At Bucknell, we have three easy-to-use platforms for creating surveys:
Qualtrics (discussed in a related blog entry) is the most flexible and advanced of the three options just mentioned. Here are some scenarios in which Qualtrics would be your best choice: |
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Moodle has a survey activity called Questionnaire that allows you to make the survey available to a very specific audience. Moodle’s Questionnaire activity would be a good choice for these possible reasons: |
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Google Forms is an easy-to-use survey creation tool. The specific survey/form that you create exists in your Google Drive, and responses to the form are saved in your Google Drive as a Google spreadsheet. Google Forms might be the best choice under these possible scenarios: |
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Here are ways you can explore each survey tool:
- Qualtrics University (also called Qualtrics Support) has extensive documentation, along with the very helpful guided tutorial, Learn Qualtrics in 5 Steps (Survey Platform Overview).
- Moodle QuickStart Guide: Creating a Survey Using Questionnaire
- Google Apps Learning Center: Getting Started with Forms
Please contact our Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship (DP&S) Group if you have questions about using surveys in your teaching or research.