Getting Results

 One of the major tools that's come to my attention is...  

Both for work and school I have found this tool to be increasingly useful as an established method to allow classmates and coworkers alike to respond to question I have for them without causing them to lose time in their day.

The free version of SurveyMonkey's "Basic" plan allows you to to create as many surveys as you would like, while limiting the amount of questions per survey to 10, easy enough if you're looking to just ask for some quick feedback on an issue or idea.  You can provide a web-link or a QR code for users to scan and respond to via PC or mobile devices and view up to 40 responses to your survey (you get more responses, but can only view them all buy buying in).

While you do get a lot with the free package, upgrading also includes tools and features that better enhances your own experience and better shows off your survey to others.  It will also allow you to use SurveyMonkeys respondent pool to send out your survey to others in a particular area, industry or other demographic.  While the results in the Basic package do stay in SurveyMonkey's web-service, you can also upgrade to export this data and display it as you choose as well.

So far I've used this for five different surveys (I did have to buy the package upgrade because I was interested in using this data, my company did pay for the service though) and found that the information gathered was useful in order to determine attitudes at work, expectations for the future, and employees expectations on the organization.  

Some drawbacks on getting into SurveyMonkey is the slight learning curve in building up questions, and not having access to all their question formats in the Basic package, but if you are comfortable with what it offers and have the patience to learn how to build the questions you want to ask, it is a great free tool to get the results you're looking for!

Check it out in the SurveyMonkey picture above and check out Shaunie Bolender's outline of it in our classroom eBook!