Comments on: Try Google Docs for survey or recruitment forms

By: leisa.reichelt

leisa.reichelt — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:04:15 +0000

@Jacques – yes, i did wonder when i’d be offered a Drupal solution! I don’t know Drupal well enough to have used it myself I’m afraid but look forward to exporing this more in the future. Thanks for the tip!

By: Jacques

Jacques — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:41:42 +0000

Since I’m using Drupal I’m using the Webform module to manage surveys and collect results. It never failed on me and is very powerful.

By: Kevin Arthur

Kevin Arthur — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:22 +0000

Interesting… I didn’t know Google Docs had progressed this far. It looks pretty good but still lacking a lot of the options SurveyMonkey has (for multi-row rating scales, for example).

SurveyMonkey allows you to customize themes (this may just be a paid feature — I’m not sure), so you can fix it up a little. It’s still not the most attractive but it gets the job done (in my case at least, doing hardware usability, so visual style isn’t a big factor).

By: nate bolt

nate bolt — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:50:53 +0000

Bummer Ethnio was down while you were trying to use it – we’ve been having trouble keeping up with demand but are working on it. I’ll totally check out the google docs method sounds interesting.

By: Todd Zaki Warfel

Todd Zaki Warfel — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:09:56 +0000

We typically use SurveyMonkey, but can’t say that I really like the aesthetics of the thing, either the admin interface or the final survey interface. It just looks grade schoolish. We’ve kicked around building our own a number of times.

I’ll have to give Google Docs a try.