There are a number of online services that will allow you or your students to create polls and surveys. We mentioned some of them in a previous article on this blog (see http://langcanada.ca/blog/?p=693_) Here is a selection of some of the ones we have recently discovered and added to the LangCanada.ca E-tools database.
CreateSurvey™ is a web application to create and conduct online surveys. The free account allows you to create up to 5 surveys per account. Create smart and professional surveys incorporating different question types, branches, skip logic, and attractive layouts. Distribute questionnaire using : web links, email invitations, pop-ups, Facebook and Twitter. Make online reports with question and date filters, cross-tabulation, public access restriction, and other useful features.
Create a free online one question, multiple answers survey without signing up.
Create a simple poll by writing your question, adding choices of answers, selecting a colour. You can then obtain a code to embed the poll in your blog or Web site or direct people to the poll by providing the URL.
Quipol is social polling. Create simple and elegant one-question polls, embed them into your blog posts and webpages.
One can use images and video to make polls more engaging.
Create surveys and gather information online.
Free poll generator for Web site or blog. Create polls of a single question and up to 20 possible answers. After voting, visitors see the statistics from previous voters.
Yarp allows you to create a simple one question survey or a one line event invitation. All answers are either “true” or “false” or “yes” or “no”. Creators of the poll or invitation and respondents can also add a comment.
This survey building tool allows you to create surveys with up to 10 questions and to gather responses from up to 100 persons. Real time results are provided online.
