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Zoomerang Basic allows users to create and store surveys with up to 30 questions each. Up to 100 survey responses per survey can be viewed online for 10 days after the survey is launched free of charge.  

Process

• Create an Account
• Create, Edit, Preview the Survey
• Deploy the Survey
• Analyze Results

Creating a Survey

• Click New Survey at the top of the My Surveys Window
• Choose to create from scratch, use a template or create from an existing survey
• Enter a survey filename

The Survey Filename is only visible to the survey creator and can be used to indicate versions of a survey, drafts or copies. The Survey Filename appears in the list on the My Surveys page. It can be edited by selecting the Edit Survey Filename link from the Survey Management page.

The Survey Title is visible to survey takers. It can be created and updated by selecting the Edit Title button when editing survey content. The Survey Title is referenced on the Survey Results page.

Follow the Survey Wizard to create your survey.

 Types of Questions

• Click Support on the Main Screen
• Select the FAQ on creating the survey which includes types of questions and adding pages

Saving the Survey

• Click the Save button on the upper right-hand corner of any survey page to save your work and remain in the survey design mode
• Click Save for Later to save your work but and go you to the 'My Surveys' page.  This button should be used when you are finished working on the survey for that session
• The Submit button can be used to deploy your survey

Adding Images

• 400 pixels across works well
• If there is no text for an image, add &nbsp in the space for the question otherwise the image will not show up

Deploying the Survey

• You can either click the Submit button in the editing mode or click Launch Survey Results in the My Surveys window
• Edit the web greeting
• Customize the thank you page
• Choose a deployment method
• Email a list of recipients in your address book
• Generate a URL
• Set Options (i.e. survey can be taken multiple times on one machine)
• Launch the survey and SAVE THE URL

Check and Analyze  Results

• Select View Results from the My Surveys screen
• Choose between viewing individual (included responses) results and a result overview

Managing Surveys
All your Surveys can be managed from the My Surveys screen.  This includes the following capabilities:

• Preview
• Modify
• Launch
• Copy the Survey
• Print the Survey
• Close the Survey (if it has been launched)
• Delete the Survey

Use the Address Book

• Click Address Book on the My Surveys screen
• Enter addresses and address lists to use for survey deployment

**Text taken from Zoomerang.com

Online Interactive and Printable Surveys

Left Brain, Right Brain

http://brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html Left vs Right Which Side Are You on? This site from Brainwave contains a information on left brain and right brain characteristics as well as a link to an interactive survey for your hemispheric dominance.

http://www.ipn.at/ipn.asp?BHX A fun and interactive brain dominance test from International PCE Network.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2812_mind_01.html Nova's Printable is another place to find out about hemispheric preference. An answer key, lesson plan and student handouts are also provided.

Learning Style

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/faculty/~simonds/styles/styles.htm Capital Community College's interactive survey allows you to evaluate your learning style using 5 sections: Auditory vs. Visual, Applied vs. Conceptual, Spatial vs. Verbal, Social vs. Independent and Creative vs. Pragmatic.

http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm Chaminade College Prep's printable chart. "This chart helps you determine your learning style; read the word in the left column and then answer the questions in the successive three columns to see how you respond to each situation. Your answers may fall into all three columns, but one column will likely contain the most answers. The dominant column indicates your primary learning style."

http://www.familyeducation.com/quiz/0,1399,3-2740,00.html What's Your Child's Primary Learning Style? This interactive survey for parents is from Family Education.

http://www.harpercollege.edu/doit/dlinfo/learnstyle.shtml Harper College's interactive Learning Strength Survey. This survey is based on Verbal, Sequential, Reflective and Intuitive styles.

http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/usermenu.asp Learning Styles' interactive survey allows you to save your profile, return to it and edit answers. You must sign in with an email address and password to use this one. Questions are based on Logical, Visual, Social, Solitary, Aural, Physical and Verbal abilities.

Multiple Intelligences

http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/ict/mulitple_int/index.htm Interactive survey from the Birmingham Learning Grid.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html Channel 13's Gardener based interactive survey. Scroll to the bottom and click Interactive to start your survey. This site contains information on the MI theory as well as how to use it in the classroom.

http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,44-12410,00.html Based on Gardner's MI theory, this interactive survey from Family Education is approved by the ASCD.

http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html Literacy Works' Find Your Strengths survey for adults.

http://surfaquarium.com/MI/inventory.htm Walter McKenzie's Multiple Intelligences Inventory, based on Gardner's theory. This survey is not interactive.

http://vrml.k12.la.us/survey.html Interactive Multiple Intelligences interactive survey from the Vermillion Parish Public Schools.

Reading Surveys

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson109/SeussReadingSurvey.pdf "This printable activity sheet accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss."" From ReadWriteThink.org.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson11/readingsurvey.pdf ReadWriteThink.org's Reading Survey for Middle School students.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson2/readingsurvey.pdf "This printable activity sheet accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom." In this lesson, students will investigate the reading process and end up with a working definition of reading using different types of books. This activity sheet contains a survey about students reading habits."

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson110/attitude.pdf "This printable activity sheet accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "The Big, Bad Wolf . . . Is This a Fact?" In this lesson, the nonfiction works of Seymour Simon are used to increase comprehension, vocabulary, and research skills, and boost students' willingness to read. This activity sheet poses a series of questions to students to discover their attitudes about reading. "

Career Surveys

http://apps.collegeboard.com/myroad/navigator.jsp?t=351?i=homepage College Board's career and interest survey, free to students who are signed up for the SAT.

http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/em212/flash/activity1.html EconEd Link's K-2 interactive career survey. "This student interactive survey, from an EconEdLink lesson, has students generate and graph survey data about what people want to be when they grow up. Click 'Display Full Record' and see the Relation field for a link to the lesson this interactive supports." This is a Marco Polo approved site.

http://www.tctc.edu/career_survey/ A career survey from Tri County Technical college.

Readiness/Exit Surveys

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp?flash=true The National Center for Educational Statistics allows students to choose from 3 survey topics and various grade levels.

http://www.brainpop.com/ This pay service has tons of interactive quizzes available for many subjects. Some of them can be accessed for free.

Analyzing Student Data

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U149 A unit from the National Council of Mathematics Teachers in which students survey each other to collect and analyze data.

http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/mstechweb/Decisions/infosurveys.htm Mr. Reid, from Indian Hills School District in Ohio, uses surveys with his class to make learning more meaningful.

Miscellaneous

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2055.shtml A bullying unit that includes a survey, from Education World.

http://politics.beasts.org/scripts/survey This 75 question political survey rates its users on their left/right tendencies and pragmatism (utilitarianism).

http://teams.lacoe.edu/DOCUMENTATION/classrooms/gayle/fairuse/fairuse.html Gayle's Electronic Classroom Fair Use PreTest.

http://atozteacherstuff.com/go/search.cgi?query=survey&grade=&sbtn.x=0&sbtn.y=0&sbtn=Search&bool=OR Various ways to use surveys from A to Z teacher stuff.

http://search.discovery.com/search?site=schContent&proxystylesheet=sch&num=10&client=sch&output=xml
_no_dtd&getfields=*&filter=0&q=survey&go.x=13&go.y=10 Various survey links for Discovery Schools.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr364.shtml Education World posts a page about using surveys in the classroom.

http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp?orgn_id=9 Just type "survey" in the search field to get tons of ways to incorporate surveys into the classroom, from MarcoPolo.

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp?flash=true The National Center for Educational Statistics allows students to choose a survey topic and number of questions. Click on Results Around the World to see how other students did on the same questions.

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson323/tech-survey.pdf A Technology belief survey from ReadWriteThink.org (grades 9-12).

http://scheduling.rutgers.edu/form1.htm Rutgers Survey for Classroom Maintenance.

http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/differentiate/planning/ Differentiation advice from Teachnology, including a paragraph on Interest Surveys.

Survey Tools

http://formsite.com/forms/ Form Site, which was recently mentioned in ISTE's Learning and Leading with Technology. Has both a pay and free service. Check their pricing page for the differences.

http://school.discovery.com/customclassroom/about.html Custom Classroom from Discovery School. Try these examples of restricted quizzes: using zoomerang, or web development.

http://www.profilerpro.com Profiler Pro

http://www.zoomerang.com Zoomerang

http://www.quia.com/ Quia's fee-based service for teachers.

http://www.quizlab.com/ FunBrain's fee-based survey and quiz tool.