Survey Monkey Instructions
Survey Monkey is an excellent resource for students to gather
information/feedback on their inventure ideas and research. This tool has a
basic membership which allows 10 questions to be asked. There is an
upgradable option that teachers may look into purchasing. The upgraded
version will allow you to share results, extract data automatically and share
responses between authorized users.
Once you have signed into your account (if your school is BYOD – students
may use their devices), chose the options to “create a new survey” (blue
arrow)
Red Arrow:
You will be asked to fill in some basic questions – Name the survey (students
should be very specific and include their team name or other easily
identifiable title – especially if multiple groups are creating a survey). The
survey will prompt the user to identify a category. We choose “education”.
Click the continue button.
The next page will allow students to type in their questions and
choose how respondents answer. There are a multitude of
options including short answers, multiple choice, select multiple
options etc. (of course there is the design option to play with –
how they want it to look for the user as well). Select the “add a
question menu and select the first option “add question”
A new box will appear. Click the down arrow key to show the
menu of questioning options. (Red arrow). Students will need to
determine what type of information they want to gather from
their respondents. The box with the blue arrow is for the actual
question to be typed.
Adding the questions is fairly straight forward. Students can experiment
with different formats and how the questions will be displayed. For a
multiple choice (select one answer only) this is how the screen will appear.
The survey will give options for students to check if they want questions to
be “required to answer” before finishing the survey. This option should be
checked, as students are using this survey as part of their research and
interviews. When finished with question, click “save and add new question”
or save and close when done.
Question for respondents
Select Require Answer
Question Type and display option
Type the answer choices, ranking, etc. Each answer is its own line
When students have finished adding questions the screen will show their
survey questions as it will be seen by respondents.
At the bottom of the page is “preview” and “send” survey.
Once the survey is finished, students will have a screen that looks like this
one:
They will need to copy this code and either email it to participants, place on
a class blog, Edmodo, or other communication site used for class.
As respondents answer survey questions, students will be able to begin
analyzing their data. Usually the survey monkey will allow one response per
computer IP address.
When students sign back into survey monkey, they will be able to click on
their survey to analyze the results. Select the appropriate survey – the bar
graph next to the survey name will allow students to “analyze results”.
The data is shown by question summary, data trend and respondent- blue
arrow. Students will be able to take this information and create their
graphs, interview data, interest results etc for their presentation boards.
Once students have gathered all their data, they will need to “close the
collector” to stop receiving responses. Click the tab along the top of the
screen (red arrow) – “Collect Responses” On the line of the weblink for the
survey is a down arrow- click on it and chose “Close collector” Orange
arrow.
Students will be prompted “Are you sure” click “Close collector”. Students
will still be able to review the data they have collected.