Survey Monkey InstructionsSurvey Monkey is an excellent resource for students to gather information/feedback on their inventure ideas and research. This tool has a basic membership which allows 10 questions to be asked. There is an upgradable option that teachers may look into purchasing. The upgraded version will allow you to share results, extract data automatically and share responses between authorized users.

Once you have signed into your account (if your school is BYOD – students may use their devices), chose the options to “create a new survey” (blue arrow)

Red Arrow:

You will be asked to fill in some basic questions – Name the survey (students should be very specific and include their team name or other easily identifiable title – especially if multiple groups are creating a survey). The survey will prompt the user to identify a category. We choose “education”. Click the continue button.

The next page will allow students to type in their questions and choose how respondents answer. There are a multitude of options including short answers, multiple choice, select multiple options etc. (of course there is the design option to play with – how they want it to look for the user as well). Select the “add a question menu and select the first option “add question”

A new box will appear. Click the down arrow key to show the menu of questioning options. (Red arrow). Students will need to determine what type of information they want to gather from their respondents. The box with the blue arrow is for the actual question to be typed.

Adding the questions is fairly straight forward. Students can experiment with different formats and how the questions will be displayed. For a multiple choice (select one answer only) this is how the screen will appear. The survey will give options for students to check if they want questions to be “required to answer” before finishing the survey. This option should be checked, as students are using this survey as part of their research and interviews. When finished with question, click “save and add new question” or save and close when done.

Question for respondents Select Require Answer

Question Type and display option

Type the answer choices, ranking, etc. Each answer is its own line

When students have finished adding questions the screen will show their survey questions as it will be seen by respondents.

At the bottom of the page is “preview” and “send” survey.

Once the survey is finished, students will have a screen that looks like this one:

They will need to copy this code and either email it to participants, place on a class blog, Edmodo, or other communication site used for class.

As respondents answer survey questions, students will be able to begin analyzing their data. Usually the survey monkey will allow one response per computer IP address.

When students sign back into survey monkey, they will be able to click on their survey to analyze the results. Select the appropriate survey – the bar graph next to the survey name will allow students to “analyze results”.

The data is shown by question summary, data trend and respondent- blue arrow. Students will be able to take this information and create their graphs, interview data, interest results etc for their presentation boards.

Once students have gathered all their data, they will need to “close the collector” to stop receiving responses. Click the tab along the top of the screen (red arrow) – “Collect Responses” On the line of the weblink for the survey is a down arrow- click on it and chose “Close collector” Orange arrow.

Students will be prompted “Are you sure” click “Close collector”. Students will still be able to review the data they have collected.