Learning patterns/Qualtrics survey tool
What problem does this solve?
There is plenty of good online survey software out there, but most of the free options have limitations that make them unsuitable for larger or more sophisticated surveys. SurveyMonkey, for example, only allows a maximum of 10 questions and 100 participants per free survey. Google Forms has no such maximum thresholds, but offers a much more limited set of survey design and data analysis tools. Free survey sites also vary in their policies for how they will store the data you collect (how long, and how securely), and who owns the data.
What is the solution?
The Wikimedia Foundation has an institutional subscription to Qualtrics.com, a web platform that provides a flexible toolkit for building surveys, deploying them electronically, and analyzing their data. Qualtrics also offers several important legal and technical safeguards to help keep survey data secure. If you would like to use Qualtrics for your own survey, contact Learning Strategist Jonathan Morgan or another member of the Wikimedia Evaluation team to get started.
General considerations
- Qualtrics is particularly good for running multilingual surveys - you can deploy 1 survey with questions translated into several languages, and then slice answers by language or aggregate them all back together again at the end.[1]
When to use
- Post-event surveys
- Gender gap research
- Wikimedia Chapter membership surveys
- Collecting input/data from community for use in grant or other project reports[2][3]
- Any other surveys of Wikimedians
See also
Related patterns
- Who to survey
- Tracking user contributions by chapter
- Surveys at different points
- Cookies by the exit
External links
- Programs:Evaluation_portal/Shop/Qualtrics
- TechSoup.org "A Few Good Online Survey Tools for Your Nonprofit"