Unlimited free online surveys

17th November 2005

posted in web 2.0 |

The ability to create dynamic, online surveys and use them in a variety of contexts is a phenomenally powerful skill in our modern information environnment. We live in an age where many clamor for “data backed decision making,” and if your constituents have access to the web– then a web-based survey can be one of the easiest and fastest way to get information from them about a particular topic. This is as true for a teacher or a student as a businessperson working in a major corporation.

I have known about and used SurveyMonkey for some time, in fact I used it today to survey my 23 workshop participants about their prior online educational experiences. (Results available as a PDF file)

Without paying money, SurveyMonkey limits free users to just 10 questions and 100 respondents per survey. Even with those restrictions SurveyMonkey is a great tool, but it can be frustrating if you have a lot of potential respondents and (like me) you prefer not to pay for something that is otherwise available for free.

Those limitations and restrictions do not apply with Perseus SurveySolutions Express. Teachers and IT staff here in Lewisville ISD just told me about this service this morning. Organizational entities need to pay to license the Perseus survey solution, but individuals do not! Comparable survey question options to the paid version of SurveyMonkey, but for free! This includes the ability to create complex, branching surveys where respondents see different questions based on their answers to earlier questions.

NEW COMMENT ON THIS: SINCE WORKING WITH PERSEUS’S SURVEY TOOL, I HAVE FOUND A MAJOR LIMITATION OF IT IS THAT IT REQUIRES MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 OR NEWER TO USE.

Yet another powerful example of read/write web or web 2.0 tools in action!

On this day..

Ports for Polycom Videoconferencing, seeking virtual learning fruit - 2007
Podcast101: Webcast, Podcast, Sakai and the Millennial student - 2006
The Internet as a World Wonder - 2006
More on S&P PD - 2006
Blog Value - 2005
Online Instructional Design - 2005
Webcast of $100 laptop prototype - 2005
Generation Yes - 2005

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1 On November 17th, 2005, Stephan Segraves said:

The only problem I see with Perseus is that it is very reliant on IE… I couldn’t get it to work in Firefox when trying to design a survey.

2 On November 17th, 2005, Wesley Fryer said:

Yes, I just ran into the same issue on Macintosh with Safari and Firefox. Thankfully, I have a “debug” menu installed for Safari which makes the browser appear to be something else– in this case I chose MS IE 6.0 for Windows. I was able to register for an account and am about to make some surveys…. hopefully you can take the surveys with multiple browsers…. I will be emailing the company on this asking them to be browser-standards compliant and not insist on Microsoft IE!

3 On January 20th, 2006, Kathryn said:

I use StellarSurvey.com, http://www.stellarsurvey.com It has all the features of SurveyMonkey, if not more, and it is 2 times cheaper. Plus, with StellarSurvey you get free unlimited account.

4 On April 14th, 2006, Wesley Fryer said: