{"id":5927,"date":"2016-11-03T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:01:47","slug":"free-online-survey-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2016\/11\/03\/free-online-survey-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Which free online survey tool should I tell my students to use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>The Quick Overview:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> Where students need to carry out online surveys, and where academic staff do not have a preference as to which tool the students use, we recommend eSurv: <a title=\"eSurv\" href=\"http:\/\/esurv.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/esurv.org<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022<\/strong> A tutorial video explaining how to use eSurv is also available here: <a title=\"eSurv Tutorial Video\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/esurv-tutorial\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/esurv-tutorial<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One area where students sometimes come unstuck with their research projects is when they try to extract data from the free online survey tool they have used. While it is often easy to create a simple online survey for free, and easy for a limited number of respondents to take part in the survey, it is not always so easy for the researcher to access their data.<\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of free online survey tools available for use, and choosing the most appropriate one is not always easy. In almost all cases, accessing the full-functionality of the survey tool is not free. For example, the free version of the survey tool may be limited by number and type of questions available (a maximum of ten questions, for example, and only basic questions). It may also be limited to a maximum number of responses (fifty responses per survey, for example). Another common restriction is to limit access to the survey data, and not to allow the researcher to download the data for analysis in a statistical package. While all these restrictions can be overcome by paying a monthly subscription to the survey tool provider, students often feel rather cheated when they find out that it will cost them, in some cases, \u00a360 to download their data for analysis in SPSS. They often feel especially annoyed when they find out that if they chosen different tool they could have had free access to their data.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a recent University of Northampton <a title=\"URB@N\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/urbanscheme\/home\" target=\"_blank\">URB@N project<\/a>, Paul Rice, Phil Oakman, Clive Howe and Rob Farmer decided to find out whether there was a genuinely free online survey tool out there somewhere. And they decided to make things more difficult by trying to find one that was also easy to use and that stored data in a way that was compliant with the UK Data Protection Act. The good news is that they found one!<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to find out more then you can read all about it in their paper published in the journal MSOR Connections: <a title=\"A REVIEW OF FREE ONLINE SURVEY TOOLS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.gre.ac.uk\/index.php\/msor\/article\/view\/311\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/journals.gre.ac.uk\/index.php\/msor\/article\/view\/311<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quick Overview:<br \/> \u2022 Where students need to carry out online surveys, and where academic staff do not have a preference as to which tool the students use, we recommend eSurv: <a title=\"eSurv\" href=\"http:\/\/esurv.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/esurv.org<\/a><br \/> \u2022 A tutorial video explaining how to use eSurv is also available here: <a title=\"eSurv Tutorial Video\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/esurv-tutorial\" [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[89,144,165,168,170,194],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-publications","category-learntech-news","tag-free-survey-tools","tag-online","tag-qualitative","tag-quantitative","tag-research","tag-surveys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Which free online survey tool should I tell my students to use? 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