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CO Forum Discussion on Simple Web Forms

August 12, 2015 By James Matheson 3 Comments

There was some discussion at today’s CO Forum about quick ways of creating simple web forms for collecting information from people which admin offices can then use. Some suggestions:

From Tim:  Moodle’s Quiz feature is shown on
https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/2323601/mod_label/intro/Quiz%20Basic.pdf
The final screen dump shows how the replies can be exported as CVS etc. Access to the “Quiz” and replies uses the usual moodle mechanisms.

And he also mentions  that “Rather more excitingly, there’s
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/content/makequiz-and-takequiz.html
to create, in a Scratch-like way, android apps that use a database to store/retrieve”

Stephen S had done a leave form for the Teaching Office web site (http://teaching.eng.cam.ac.uk/node/524). This shows the user data entry bit but he also showed me the page which the Teaching Office can use to look at and export the data and modify the form. It’s pretty flexible.

We also discussed the possibility of using survey type software and a possible locally hostable option that I looked at a bit ago for something else is Lime Survey.

And there are also forms like the helpdesk one on this site though I don’t know how flexible or otherwise these are.

—

james

 

 

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  1. Paul Taylor says

    August 12, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    We used Lime Survey for an alumni questionnaire at one point. I’d proposed offering it as a tool for other surveys, but it was overtaken by the Department’s purchase of a licence for SurveyMonkey.

    In the version that we used, it was a fairly powerful and flexible system, but it was somewhat complicated to create and configure individual surveys.

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  2. Anna Langley says

    August 14, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    The University has an arrangement to use Qualtrics http://cambridge.qualtrics.com, which to my admittedly untrained eye, appears to be comprehensive and fairly easy to learn and use. It produces surveys that are branded with the University style and present themselves correctly formatted for mobile devices.

    There are training videos so you can see what it does, at http://www.qualtrics.com/university/researchsuite/

    I’ve requested to become a divisional admin, so that I could create accounts for others in the department.

    The person I’ve been in touch with about it is Sultan Kus at UIS sk275@cam.ac.uk

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  3. Anna Langley says

    August 26, 2015 at 8:28 am

    P.S. I am now a departmental administrator for Qualtrics. So if you need to use, or would like to try Qualtrics, please let me know, and I will create an account for you.

    Anna

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