Prerequisites: Forms: Introduction (or equivalent knowledge)

Methods of administering web-based surveys

  1. Administering public surveys for anonymous respondents: example, benefits, and drawbacks
  2. Administering access-restricted surveys for anonymous respondents: example, benefits, and drawbacks
  3. Administering access-restricted surveys for non-anonymous respondents: example, benefits, and drawbacks

Creating a survey with HTML and PonyExpress

  1. Making your form work with PonyExpress
  2. Activating your data directory to allow data to be written there
  3. Adding auto-completing fields based on login name for non-anonymous surveys

Important tips: Suggestions and potential pitfalls

  1. Designing your form to produce easily sorted and tabulated data
  2. Managing multiple submissions from repeat respondents
  3. Avoiding data corruption caused by checkboxes
  4. Preventing data corruption caused by changes to form
  5. Protecting your data
  6. Activating your directory

Analyzing your data

  1. Choosing a database or spreadsheet
  2. Demonstration: importing into an Excel spreadsheet