Vision Statement

Background

KU staff and students often want to conduct polls or surveys within KU, or within a unit or organization at KU. The polls or surveys provide input for making decisions, planning events, and learning others’ preferences and ideas, but they aren’t critical (like voting for a representative).

The most common poll/survey questions are multiple choice, where the poll taker selects a choice from a list of choices.

There are applications for this on the Internet, such as Google Forms and SurveyMonkey, but they all have limitations or unwanted features. Google Forms is clumsy and a returning visitor cannot see his previously submitted choices, but he can submit new choices if the form settings are set to allow it. Google Forms do not have a setting for automatic start and end date; the form creator must manually enable/disable responses.

SurveyMonkey has limits on free forms, including the number of survey items and a number of responses.

Vision

For the KU community who want to conduct surveys and polls open to the community, and who may wish to specify starting/ending dates for the survey or poll, our product is an easy to use web application that provides the ability to submit a choice on poll items, and view or modify one’s choice any time during the polling period.

Our product has a simple procedure for creating polls and allows everyone to see the results of a poll or survey.

Additional Detail

The opening and closing dates for each poll/survey question are optional. A question is not visible to web visitors before the opening date, and voting or modifying an existing vote is not allowed after the closing date, but the poll/survey and results can be viewed after the closing date.