surveytools

=Survey & Form Tools=

General Information Survey Monkey Course Climate Flashlight Online Acrobat (PDF) Forms Other Survey/Forms Tools

Also see Assessment, which includes an area for Quiz / Test Tools, and Classroom Response Systems


 * GENERAL INFORMATION**


 * SURVEY MONKEY**

SurveyMonkey [a free, basic version and full, subscription version] http://www.surveymonkey.com “SurveyMonkey.com is a company from Portland, OR. It makes Web tools for conducting online surveys. It was stated to be relatively inexpensive and easy to learn.”


 * COURSE CLIMATE**

Class Climate (log-in) https://classclimate.uts.sc.edu/classclimate/index.php/online/index/index

Class Climate – Course Evaluation Feedback system [commercial product] http://www.scantron.com/classclimate/

Scantron Launches Class Climate http://campustechnology.com/articles/49050/


 * FLASHLIGHT ONLINE**

Flashlight Online http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/flashlightonline.html “Flashlight Online is a Web-based service for creating, administering, and analyzing surveys of all types. The system has special assets for studies in education, especially educational uses of technology. … Flashlight Online lets you search a library of validated items and peer-reviewed surveys. You can share surveys and data with other users, in your institution and elsewhere.” The University of South Carolina has a subscription.

Flashlight Online log in http://flashlightonline.wsu.edu/

Flashlight Online http://www.sc.edu/deis/faculty_support/flashlight.html This page contains information about Flashlight Online, which is a Web-based service for creating, administering, and analyzing surveys. Flashlight Online allows you to create your own surveys or draw on a library of questions relating to instructional technology which have already been validated. Flashlight Online at USC contact Vera Polyakova-Norwood (vnorwood@gwm.sc.edu )

WebSurvey @ UW Wisconsin has a tool that they charge for… http://www.doit.wisc.edu/websurvey/

ACROBAT (PDF) FORMS
Also see PDF universal file formats in Productivity Basics Also see the note at bottom, which was an e-mail I sent someone in July 2013.

Creating PDF Forms (PDF) Chapter from book (42 pages) http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_cibexcerpts/Lesson14.pdf

Create a form easily with the New Form Assistant in LiveCycle Designer http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_newformasst.html (Excerpted from “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book”)

In fine form with Acrobat 7.0 [planning ahead] http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7at_createform.html (Excerpted from "Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks: The 150 Best" by Donna Baker.)

Customize a form with LiveCycle Designer http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_custmform.html (Excerpted from “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book”)

Add options, actions, and formatting to form fields http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7at_adjustform.html (Excerpted from "Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks: The 150 Best" by Donna Baker.)

Add functionality to PDF forms with buttons http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_formbuttons.html (Excerpted from “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book”)

Add options to your form with a drop-down list http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_formdropdwn.html (Excerpted from “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book”)

Finalize your PDF form with a submit button http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_formsubmit.html (Excerpted from “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Classroom in a Book”)

Export form data to a spreadsheet http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7it_exprtform.html


 * OTHER SURVEY / FORMS TOOLS**

Wufoo http://wufoo.com/ “Wufoo is an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms.” There is a free version in addition to fee-based hosting services.

Survey Gizmo [Four levels; the basic account is free] http://www.surveygizmo.com/ They have a free student version.

Poll Daddy http://www.polldaddy.com/ With your free account from Poll Daddy you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.

Free Online Surveys http://freeonlinesurveys.com/

Poll Everywhere [] They have a free version that is limited to 30 students.

Do you want to edit the PDF file, make it into a form that others can fill out, or just fill out the form with your information to send to someone?

What I know to do if you want to **edit a PDF document** is to Export the PDF in Acrobat Pro into a Work Document (Export -> Word Document). I have attached a copy of that for your document. For PDFs with paragraphs of text, this works really well. When you have columns, boxes or lines like this form, it doesn’t do as good a job. It does allow you to edit the file, though. I also tried exporting to text (.txt) and rich text (.rtf) formats, which I also attached. Text strips out all the formatting and Rich Text looks a lot like Word Document.

If you want to **make a PDF document into an interactive form** (or make an interactive form from scratch) you can also do that in Acrobat Pro. Version 8, which is what I use, has a choice for Forms -> Create New Form and then asks if you want to start with an electronic document, make one from scratch, etc. What it does is takes you to a new tool Adobe made called LiveCycle Designer. Apparently in later versions of Acrobat Pro, this is a separate tool. I have never used it, but it looks pretty clear. If this is what you need to do with this form, let me know and we can learn LiveCycle Designer together.

If you just want to **enter text on the form** to send to someone, the way I do that is not real pretty, but it works. In Acrobat Pro, I go to Tools -> Advanced Editing -> Touch Up Text Tool. That allows you to insert text on the lines of the form. (It inserts the text into the row of underline characters, so you usually need to take a few of the underline characters out at the end of the line.) After you add the text you want, you save the document and send it to whoever needs the form.

I hope this helps.

Basically, I still use an old version of Acrobat Pro because I know how I can do certain things. There may be better ways to do these things in newer versions or even in older versions, but these are the ways I have manipulated PDF documents over the years. We tend to stick with what we know! Someone recently asked me about LiveCycle Designer. I didn’t even know that the Form feature had changed until someone asked me what this was.

I am around most of the time, so let me know if you need me to show you any of these things or if we need to learn LiveCycle Designer together! SusanQ