Club Survey Question

[Ricc Havens]

I have been tasked by our club to put together a survey to the members. Survey Monkey (free version) allows for yes/no, true/false or multiple choice questions. But, while fill in the blank questions like "what topics would you like to see presented" can be put on the survey, Survey Monkey doesn't allow you to see the results and percentages of how many responded with the each topics unless you pay for a subscription.. The minimum subscription is $25 a month/$300 a year. We won't use surveys enough to make that kind of cost worth while

Does anyone use and recommend another survey service similar to Survey Monkey that allows fill in the blank questions that is free or minimal annual cost?

THANKS!
Ricc

 

[hockenbery]

Congratulations!

There is a short learning curve - I have used JOTFORM for lots of things.
It puts all the responses in a spread sheet.
It has an enormous amounts of options and addon widgets.
pull down lists, multiple choice, text entry,
You can have default answers, require that an answer be entered.
You can email the response back to the member and to yourself.

One use was staffing the club booth at the woodworking show.
scheduling folks for things you can let members select something and the mark it selected so it can’t be picked again.
If you want 3 folks to do an activity you can make it unavailable after 3 have picked.

You can create reports that show results for questions as bar charts etc.


There are limits to the free service. 100 responses a month 500 stored responses.

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[Kevin Jesequel]

I’ve not created a survey on it, but have filled out some that used Survey King. Looking at their website, they have a free version and a “pro” version that costs $19/mo but says you can cancel anytime. Might be worth seeing if either version will do what you are looking for.

 

[Ricc Havens]

Al and Kevin - thanks I will check those options out.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[Dave Landers]

Our club has used Google Forms - I think it would do what you want. Comes with a gmail account.
We're starting to use it for workshop etc signups, with a plugin from payableapps.com to collect payment based on answers (what class, how many, whatever).

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

We can do surveys thru our website at Club Express but used Google Forms before we got on CE. Yes it works but might be a small learning curve.

 

[Ricc Havens]

Dave- I will check it out. I am assuming google forms can create the forms but can it tabulate results and collate "fill in the blank" answers so I don't have to manually read and tabulate every survey response?

Gerald - thanks for the tip. We don't have any one that wants to be our webmaster for a web page. It's not in my knowledge bank or skill set to create a new website using Club Express. (I was drafted into doing the survey and am finding that I don't enjoy computers or understand enough to spend all the time necessary to learn website development/management or any other of this stuff like forms and surveys! I want to get back to turning )

 

[Dave Landers]

Dave- I will check it out. I am assuming google forms can create the forms but can it tabulate results and collate "fill in the blank" answers so I don't have to manually read and tabulate every survey response?

I did a quick test (I haven't used it much personally) and it appears to collate short answer results (it made a chart for me). I think it also lets you see per-person results (anonymous, but collated per person).
Probably worth a quick test

 

[Ricc Havens]

Thanks Dave

 

[Earl McLain]

Dave- I will check it out. I am assuming google forms can create the forms but can it tabulate results and collate "fill in the blank" answers so I don't have to manually read and tabulate every survey response?

Gerald - thanks for the tip. We don't have any one that wants to be our webmaster for a web page. It's not in my knowledge bank or skill set to create a new website using Club Express. (I was drafted into doing the survey and am finding that I don't enjoy computers or understand enough to spend all the time necessary to learn website development/management or any other of this stuff like forms and surveys! I want to get back to turning )

Hey Ricc--i can tabulate results if what you find to use doesn't get the job done. Enjoyed our shop visit Tuesday--and my wallet fits better in my pocket now!!

 

[Ricc Havens]

Thanks Earl! I will let you know if it gets to that point. Enjoyed the shop visit too. We need to be able to schedule where we aren't so rushed and if you still have Cam's number I sent you a few months ago maybe we can coordinate meeting with him too.