Zoomerang+Online+Surveys

WHAT IS IT? Zoomerang is an online survey program that enables you to create surveys for use by your students.

WHY USE IT? Surveys are useful for formative assessments (what are the kids understanding or not understanding) or for course feedback. Although Berkeley Carroll has its own subscription, used in Upper School for course evaluations by students, you can and probably should set up your own free Zoomerang account. This allows you to be the only person with access to your survey results.

HOW DO YOU USE IT? • Go to Zoomerang.com • Click on TRY IT FOR FREE button in upper right corner of the home page • Set up your own account • Click on CREATE A SURVEY to begin; Mauricio and Erika suggest starting with the EDUCATION TEMPLATES option which provides the basic lay out; you will be able to edit and personalize the template • Begin editing with options for editing on the right. Erika says it is intuitive and you will be able to find your way by trying this and that • An important choice to consider before setting up your survey: How do you want the ratings to work? What language do you want? Typical “RATING SCALE MATRIX 1-5” runs from 1 for Very Unsatisfactory to 5 for Very Satisfactory. You might want to adjust language for your own purposes • All surveys can contain area for student comments. You can have surveys that are entirely comments. • Surveys are anonymous but if you require your students to take the survey, you can ask them to print out the last page of the survey and bring it in as proof of taking it. They will need to complete the survey to reach that page. • You can cap surveys at the maximum number of students in your class to ensure the ballot box is not stuffed. You cannot prevent students from taking the survey more than once. Possibly the more advanced subscription version, which we might all have access to next year, will have that feature. • Once you’ve created the survey, you can test it and then LAUNCH it. That will produce a web address you can copy and place on your teacher page. • If you no longer want the survey, you can delete it. • Results are quickly organized and managed by percents clearly laid out in tables so you do not need to do any tallying. Comments are not organized but are all placed together. Type in the content of your new page here.