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Creating Surveys: Tools for Creating Surveys

Developing proper surveys and engaging in good survey research is difficult, but fascinating. This guide will help you find information about creating proper questionnaires and tools to use, so that you know where you can go from here.

Tools Comparison

You can create the survey from scratch or reinvent it using published questionnaires and surveys within the articles. However, the process of creating, distributing, and analyzing surveys can be complex and time-consuming without the right tools. Survey tools and software assist in designing and managing surveys. These platforms offer interfaces, customizable templates, distribution options, and powerful analytics features that simplify the entire survey process. Remember you still will need to design, think about the questions, their types and logic.

 Survey Tool 

 Data Services Supported 

Max. Number of Respondents/ Recipients

Max Number of E-mail Messages

Personal Access at NU

 Qualtrics

 

Unlimited

10,000 / week

NU Account

 Google  Forms

 

The limit is 500k, however the limit set by size of survey, rather than the number of respondents.  

2,000 / day Drive

Google Forms

 Survey Monkey (basic plan)

  The limit is 1,000 recipients per collector.

1,000/day

 

 None

 

Qualtrics

The NU supports Qualtrics, a tool for creating and analyzing web-based surveys for research, teaching, and administrative needs.

Qualtrics is available to NU faculty, staff, and students as part of a university-wide license that is managed and supported. NU Library also provides stand alone and/or course integrated instructions and one-on-one consultations for faculty, staff, research groups, and students by request.

Google Forms

Survey Monkey

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