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Google Docs as a means of online survey tools
Now researching online is easy and simple.
a) Go to Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/?hl=en&pli=1
b) Sign in with your user id and password
c) Click on “New” then from drop down menu select “Form”.
d) Click on “Untitled form” and placed here your title of the online survey.
e) Replace the “You can include any text or info that will help people fills this out” with your instruction for the candidate that will fills out the survey form.
f) Entered “Question Title”, “Help Text”, and choose question type from the options of “text”, “paragraph text”, “Multiple choices”, “Checkboxes”, “Choose from a list”, and “Scale (1-n)”.
g) Click on “Done”;
h) Repeat the step of “f” and “g” for each question.
i) Confirmation Message: Click on “More actions” and direct to “Edit confirmation”. Here customize the confirmation message with your own name plate in it and “Save” it.
j) Questionnaire Distribution: Click on “Email this form” to Email the survey questionnaire to the respondents, and to link from your own blog / website click on “More actions” and then point to “Embed” to get the URL address of the form.
k) See Responses: You can see the responses by clicking on the “See responses” button of your form. The both option to get a “Summery’ and “Spreadsheet” view of the respondents is available under this button. Is it not a fun of creating online survey through Google Docs?
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Permalink Reply by Ritesh Kumar Tiwari on
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Thanks Badanji,
This information would be valuable for so many professionals.
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Permalink Reply by Padma Sirohi on
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Hello Badan,
I am a new member to your forum. Recently I am preparing a survey on use of e-books & e-journals. This information provided will be very much useful to me. I will definitely try it.
Thanks & regards
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