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Using SurveyMonkey toUsing SurveyMonkey to survey your list for free.

The Free Level of S r e Monke allo s o toSurveyMonkey allows you to create a survey of up to 10

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Go to surveymonkey.com y yand signup for a Free

AccountAccount


Enter all your detailsEnter all your details onto the website


ClickClick“Create Survey”


C tCreate a new survey•Add a Title•Select a Category


Creating your survey. The first page allows you to:

•Change the “Look” of your survey•Create the Survey QuestionsD i h S Fl•Design the Survey Flow

•Don’t worry about the Look yet. That can be done laterdone later.•Concentrate on the questions first.•Before launching into questions, lets examine the question types availablethe question types available.


Question Types

•Before launching into creating your survey, it is best to have a look at the different question types that SurveyMonkey offerstypes that SurveyMonkey offers.

•By examining the question types, you can then write a series of questions that suit thewrite a series of questions that suit the Question Types.

•After looking at the Question Types write aAfter looking at the Question Types, write a list of questions on a piece of paper, bearing in mind the Question Type that will be used to create the question in the survey.q y

•Let’s explore the question types


There are 15 question types available, which are in 3 categories.•Close‐Ended Questions•Open‐Ended questions•Additional Questions

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Close‐Ended Questions•These questions are designed so that there is•These questions are designed so that there is a choice of answers, and the answers are pre‐determined. Analysis of these types of questions are quite straightforward and trendsquestions are quite straightforward and trends can easily be recognised.

Open‐ended Questions•These questions require the respondent to answer the question into their own words. qAnalysis of these types can be quite complicated and time consuming, however a lot of useful information can be gained.g

Additional Questions•These questions are not really questions at all•These questions are not really questions at all, they are for descriptive purposes only.


Close‐Ended Questions

Multiple Choice (Only One Answer)(Only One Answer)

Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Rating Scale

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Rating Scale(One Answer Per Row)


Close‐Ended Questions (Con’t)

Matrix of Choices(One Answer per Row)

Matrix of Choices(Multiple Answers per Row)


Matrix of Drop‐down Menus


Open‐Ended Questions

Single TextboxSingle Textbox

Multiple Textboxes

Comment/Essay Box


Open‐Ended Questions (Con’t)

Numerical Textbox

Demographic (USA)

Demographic (Non‐USA)


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Open‐Ended Questions (Con’t)

Date and Time


Additional Questions•These are not really questions they are for information•These are not really questions, they are for information or descriptive purposes only, however, they do count towards the 10 question limit for Free Accounts.

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Descriptive Text


First Question,First Page

Click on “Edit Page Options” then “Edit Page Information” to give your page a Title and Description

Enter the required information and click “Save Page”


Have a look at your pre‐prepared questions and determine whatquestions, and determine what question type best applies to your question.quest o .

Quick Help Tip:•Download the “How can we help you succeed survey questions” pdf document which is an example of a survey.D l d h “H h l d i

Create your first question by l k “ dd ”

•Download the “How can we help you succeed survey questions notes” pdf document which explains how the survey was created.

clicking on “Add Question”


Clicking on “Add Question” opens this box: Click on the Dropdown tothis box: Click on the Dropdown to select your Question Type

If you click on the Down Arrow next to “Add Question” the following options are given:given:


Single Textbox Question

Tick here to require a response to the question

Save


Adding another question on the same page

Click here to addanother question


Multiple Choice Question (One Answer Only)

Choose how you want your question displayed

Save


Adding another question on a new page

Click here to adda new page


Multiple Choice Question (One Answer Only, with Comment field)

Adding a “Comment” field with some validation.

In this case filling out the “Exact Age” field is optional. However, if they do fill it out, you want the answer to be a whole number.answer to be a whole number.

If anything other than a whole number is entered, an error

message appears that says “The g pp ycomment you entered is in an invalid format, please enter as a

whole number.”


Rating Scale QuestionThe “weighting” number is

important.

When you have gathered lots of responses, the report that is

generated will calculate the sum of all the responses of each

fi ldfield.

For example, when all the scores are added, ebooks may have a combined score of 20 from 10combined score of 20 from 10 responses, 5 people indicated “I love this method”, 2 people indicated “OK method” and 1 person indicated “Not reallyperson indicated Not really interested in this method”.


Preview your SurveyPreview your Survey

Click “Preview Survey”


To preview and progress through your Survey you need to enter information

into the mandatory questions


Once you have added all your questions, you can change the look ofquestions, you can change the look of

your survey.

At the Free Level you can choose fromAt the Free Level, you can choose from 12 pre‐determined themes, however, you cannot create a Custom Theme.

Choose a Theme and click “Preview Survey” to see what it looks like.Survey to see what it looks like.


Once you are happy with the questions and what the Theme looks like, it is time to get it out there and start gathering responsesout there and start gathering responses.

Click “Send Survey”


There are several ways you can givepeople the opportunity to take your survey Email a link add a link to asurvey. Email a link, add a link to a

website, or even add the Survey Monkey Facebook App to your Facebook Page.


Looking at your AnswersLooking at your AnswersHere is an example set of data

from one of our surveysfrom one of our surveys.


Looking at your AnswersLooking at your AnswersThe data represented

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Paid Levels of SurveyMonkeySurveyMonkey

Why pay?•You can download your data•You can add more than 10 questions•You can customise your theme•You can use “Skip Logic”Af filli i h d b di d•After filling in the survey, your respondents can be directed to a website of your choice (Gold and Platinum Levels)


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