Reviewing the Survey Monkey!

      I used Survey Monkey to gage my staff's ideas and concerns about expanding our composting and recycling at school.  My school is piloting a Department of Education recycling and composting program.  I am heading up this initiative.  I needed to find out where the staff stands on aspects of this program and how we will approach this program.
     
      I have taken many surveys with Survey Monkey before but have never actually used the program.  I signed up for the free basic package.  I found creating the survey very easy.  I chose a basic lay out.  This lay out has a variety of questions.  

Simple Design Lay Out

Many Question Choices.

   

    Posting the survey was also easy.  All I had to do was to post an e-mail link in our school's e-mail system and teachers could access the survey at their leisure.  

Easy linking to various locations, even Facebook. 

       The only real issue came when I went to analyze the results, all the feature I wanted were not part of the basic package.  The price and plans are quite reasonable so I upgraded to "Select".  My favorite feature from using Survey Monkey this first time is Crosstab.  I was able to separate my survey results between classroom teachers and non-classroom teacher respondents.  

For example, here are responses to one of the questions from both groups, classroom teachers only and finally non-classroom teachers.

Better proofreading on my part is needed: fun cup = fruit cups.

       I presented the survey result to my staff today.  It made for a very easy discussion.  I would definitely use Survey Monkey again.  This is a very powerful tool.  It is a time saver.   The best feature was not having to tabulate surveys on paper.  This is such green way to survey.  No paper ballots were destroyed in the making or tabulating of this survey.  They are all still readily available online.