My new favorite survey tool
April 7th, 2008 | by Tim Wilson |I’ve been using a variety of online survey tools for quite a few years now including Zoomerang, SurveyMonday, and KeySurvey. My new favorite is SurveyGizmo.
We’ve been increasing the use of online surveys greatly in my district this year. We love how easy it is to gather feedback following a staff meeting, from parents and others during a curriculum adoption, or as a customer satisfaction instrument for my technology department. Here’s what I really like about SurveyGizmo:
- The SurveyGizmo interface is full of tasty Web 2.0 goodness. Various options and settings open without a full page reload which makes building a survey much more like a desktop application. The look and feel overall is clean and modern in contrast to many of the online tools which look a bit clunky to me.
- The SurveyGizmo enterprise account provides 20 separate survey users. This will enable each school and district office department to have their own account.
- Here’s a huge one for me: they have a full API! In particular, I’m excited to see that you can pass information into a SurveyGizmo survey from another web form or via a web link. I’ve been looking for a way to use an online survey to collect customer satisfaction data as my tech department resolves trouble tickets for staff members. The API would really make that easier.
- Other features of note: full support for branching surveys with really complex logic (can even use regular expression matching for full geek compatibility), tons of built-in question types including some I haven’t seen anywhere else, private domain name, and many more really cool advanced features.
So I’d say give it a try. Full disclosure: the SurveyGizmo links in this post are affiliate links.
Tags: keysurvey, onlinesurvey, surveygizmo, surveymonkey, zoomerang
7 Responses to “My new favorite survey tool”
By john on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
Could you send me an evernote invite? THANKS!
By Derek Scruggs on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the kind words Tim. All three of the partners are geeks at heart, so we love to see clever uses of the API.
By Craig on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
I agree completely. SurveyGizmo is great. But what really drew me to it initially was the fact that the free account allows a full 250 responses every month. Very easy to use too.
By Mike on Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
Well guys, I can say that I’ve also used various survey tools and I can definitely state that the best one is Key Survey. It is very easy to use, you can gather feedback immediately. I am using it now and will use it.
By Tim Wilson on Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
Yes, I like KeySurvey too. I bought it a couple years ago when I was in a different school district. The downside at that time was that we could only get one login for our account. That made it less convenient when we had multiple people creating, managing, and viewing surveys. It wasn’t a huge deal, but it was a problem for collecting sensitive survey data. At that time, I thought the KeySurvey surveys were kind of ugly and modifying the CSS wasn’t particularly easy. I definitely like the javascript interface that SurveyGizmo uses.