Free Survey Sites Tutorial

Video tutorial from pmStudent.com about how to use free survey and polling sites to improve communication with your project team.

Video Transcription

Hi everyone, this is Josh Nankivel with pmstudent.com. Today I am going to do a video blog on a tool that you can use in project management which is an online survey tool. This is something that you can use in project management or other team environments where you are trying to get feedback from the team on what is going on. You can either click specific questions or specific answers to questions or just make it something that where they can give open feedback. I just want you to walk through this. I do not work for polldaddy.com or anything. Surveymonkey.com is another one that I know of, website that you can set up free surveys with. I really like polldaddy.com here so. I am just going to show you the process here if you go to the sign-up page most of this do every free options. You can see that ten questions per survey is the limit and 100 survey responses per month and for the most part that is going to be just fine for us. I am going to go ahead and click sign-up and let just do testman lastname and I am going to ahead and put in email address here. [Demo] All right, and I just log-in here to polldaddy.com. If you go ahead and look at the section on the right here we have got create a new poll and you can also do a survey as well. A poll is something is more like strictly multiple choice and that is really the only options that you have. So I am going to go and create the survey and let just call this survey name, project status for September. [Demo] And I am just going to do the same thing for the survey title. Scroll down here. I am going to use a custom start message that says, “Thank you for completing this survey and you are project manager, no? What is going on?” All right, custom finish message that is fine. With PollDaddy you can change the style of your poll. Although I will choose one here and you save and continue. [Demo] All right, and here in the survey editor we have got all sort of options you can add a page header you just click and drag it over there and say, “September project questions.” And let just say that you do something, I did write a post one time on using a survey like this to collect information about the project and doing this on a monthly basis in order to get the project manager can ask specific questions and the survey respondents can answer anonymously and not worry about somebody knowing that it was them that answer the question, this way or that way, okay. So let us say I am going to do paragraph. We will do a text paragraph on it. Just click in here, enter you question, “What is the biggest problem you faced in September on this project?” Went up the screen a little bit there. I am going to move this over a little bit. Okay, and put the question mark on there and this is a paragraph so they will go ahead and be able to putting whatever they want. You can change the size to make it large just in case we have someone who wants to talk quite a bit. Okay, we could say multiple choice. I am just going to drag that one in there. Let us say something happened on the project. [Demo] “Which way of doing xxx, whatever it was to do like best, let us say we try three different ways of doing something?” Option one, option two, option three, whatever these are you can make these questions mandatory so that they have to answer them. You can let them add a note to it as well which I like to do if there is a multiple choice question of some sort. You can have a radio button where if they choose one, they can only choose one. You can make a list, you can do check boxes, and they can choose many of them. Also it is a different option here. And then the other gives them an option to say, “well, none of these options the way I like best, what I would like to do is this,” okay. Actually if I go back to the note, the note actually gives you just this little information here if you uncheck it you see that disappeared. Okay, so we could say, tell us whatever type of information you want, okay. And then, for the last question what I would like to do is general feedbacks so. “Give us any feedback you wish.