Mike Palij asks about google forms. I've used these a bit. You can create a variety of survey questions using google forms and either embed these in an email message or direct respondents to a web site where they can answer questions.
It is fairly easy to create questions. You can do open-ended questions or Likert-type scales. I don't think there is a good mechanism for creating conditional branches. I've used google forms for fairly short and simple surveys when I want quick answers (e.g., follow-up questions to evaluate a workshop) and don't need a complicated form. The biggest complaint I have about google forms is that it stores the labels I create for Likert-type questions rather than the numerical scale values for each response. So the file created is not friendly to a quantitative analysis. I don't know how well this system protects the identity of the respondents. The data do get compiled in a excel-type file. UWF has adopted gmail as its institutional email. This gives everyone access to many google aps, including google forms. However, the UWF gmail is in a different domain than the general public version of gmail. Users from outside the UWF system can experience a variety of difficulties accessing these aps from their regular gmail accounts (or other accounts). You probably would not encounter this difficulty if you used google forms from a general gmail account. But you might encounter incompatibilities with users with academic institutional gmail accounts. For example, I've discovered that a commercial site that uses gmail and offers to post a webinar to my gmail calendar is unable to do so. General gmail doesn't recognize my email account as a gmail account (it retains the UWF identity). Claudia _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor NSF ADVANCE Scholar School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 [email protected] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17180 or send a blank email to leave-17180-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
