Web Services upgraded an existing campus license to an Enterprise version in 2006. This means that the system can be used campus-wide. Web Services, however, only supports College or Arts & Sciences and College of Business. It is our running policy that we will offer this service for use outside of our contracted Colleges unless it becomes a personnel support burden. (Note: Other areas of campus may be running Select Survey but not the same version)
Address of Select Survey: https://survey.lilt.ilstu.edu
STATS CONSULTING CENTER: Before you set up your instrument, you may want to utilize the services of the Stats Consulting Center on campus. This is a good way to make sure you are measuring what you intend to. They also have some services to help you in the analyses of your data. Here is their website: http://www.statscenter.ilstu.edu/
IRB: There is a section in the help sheet that specifically covers IRB settings needed in your survey. Make sure you have IRB approval for all the required surveys before you deploy them. For IRB questions check out the Research and Sponsored Programs website.
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT: If you are looking at program assessment, please contact the University Assessment Office. They offer the service of consulting, designing, creating, implementing, and evaluating your assessments. They also ensure that the assessments fit into both your accreditation, program reviews, and more.
HELP SHEET: Here is a help sheet that has some sample code that you can copy and paste into your survey. This help sheet is pretty long so it is not recommended to print it out. Go ahead and do Step One of the Handout and email the Web Services Administrator. in order to set up your access level to CREATE surveys.
Click here to download the helpsheet (doc)
OTHER FEATURES: If you want to explore Piping or Page Conditions at a future time, let me know and I can assist you with these deceptively simple but sometimes tricky features. Email Sarah Walczynski for a training session. Here are some helpsheets if you want to try it on your own.
Piping (docx)
Page Conditions (docx)
SAMPLE EMAIL: Here is a sample email. I think it is easier to look at an example and tweak it than to come up with one from scratch. Make sure you completely delete the example link address and place your new address into its own paragraph. Some email clients do not support html and can try to break this link up into multiple lines. If it is on its own line (and paragraph) there is less of a chance for error. Click here to view a sample email.
SENDING MASS EMAIL OUT: There is an ISU policy on the proper way to send out survey and research requests via email. Particularly, refer to Sections 7 and 8. Here is the policy: http://www.policy.ilstu.edu/technology/9-7.shtml Also, these emails can be sent out via Computer Infrastructure Support Services (CISS) by contacting Carla Birckelbau. Please give them at least a week’s notice before you want this sent out. You are responsible for writing your email and testing the functionality of the links within the email.
SAMPLE WEB PAGES FOR INFORMED CONSENT: Generally you will want participants to agree to the informed consent form BEFORE going to the survey. You may also want to have a cancel page that a participant would go to if they hit the CANCEL button during the survey. You might also want to have a debriefing page to link to after they complete the survey. Some folks even want to link to a separate form page or second survey for participants to send an email to sign up for prizes (so they are not identified in the actual survey). Below are some sample pages that might help give you a place to start in the creation of some of your forms.
REVIEW: After you have written a few questions in your survey that represent the different question types you are using (or have entered many of the questions if they are of the same style), email Sarah Walczynski to look them over and she will give you helpful hints to make the survey more usable and perhaps more aesthetically pleasing. Also remember that you can always contact the Stats Consulting Group with help in the design of your instrument. They do not have direct access to the survey system but we can arrange for access.
SUPPORT: Call (8-8276) or email Sarah Walczynski to walk you through any of the stages of the lifecycle of your survey. I am here to help! I can’t look up surveys by owner but instead let me know the TITLE of the survey when contacting me.
TRAINING: Group training sessions are scheduled through training.ilstu.edu Please contact Sarah Walczynski if you need to make other training arrangements.
The administrators of the program cannot look up surveys by owner. Instead, they can only look up surveys by title. Also, if for some reason you delete your survey and need it restored, it can only be restored by title. This means that you will want to have an identifiable title such as one that starts with your department abbreviation. Avoid using generic names such as "Assessment" or "Program Feedback" since it is very difficult to find ownership of similarly named items. Make a note of your title before contacting the admins for support.
Select Survey is designed to be supported for faculty and administrative use only. Should you want to request that your students have access to create surveys or have owner access to your survey, you will have to take responsibility for them and provide them all of the support necessary. Once again, we will continue to offer this service to faculty for their students unless it becomes a personnel burden. Note: requesting access does not guarantee access
Please fill out the following form.
Form to request to sponsor a student to use Select Survey
