What are surveys?

• Whenever a survey is completed, the survey response is saved in the database as a story (called an Update in the front-end)

• Therefore a survey can be thought of as a template for a story with a set of questions and fields that need to be completed. This is why the name for surveys in the back-end is Story Category.

Using surveys

Whenever a survey is created, it exists more like a template. In order to actually use a survey, i.e. enable people to create stories using that survey, the survey needs to be added to a project.

When a survey is added to a project, it is called a Survey Campaign.

There are four options for creating a survey campaign

1. Start by creating a new survey: create a new survey from scratch and then add it to your project

2. Existing survey you created: Choose a survey you created previously and add it to your project

3. Existing survey a colleague created: Choose a survey that your colleague created previously and add it to your project

4. Existing survey created by someone outside your charity: Choose a publicly available survey from www.makerble.com/explore/surveys and add it to your project

Start by going to the Surveys app on Makerble

• Click the Surveys button in the My Apps ribbon. It will take you to your Surveys page. From here you can

  • Find existing surveys that you or your colleagues created. (Yellow arrow)

  • Create a new survey from scratch (Purple arrow)

  • Find publicly available surveys (Blue arrow)

• Follow the instructions in the Survey Campaigns article for guidance on how to add a survey to a project and start generating survey responses.

Analyse your survey responses

Survey responses can be analysed from several pages:

1. Survey Analytics

2. Progress Board

3. My Home page or Project page

Survey Analytics page	Progress board page	My Home or Project page
Good for: Showing survey responses from one or more projects at once Filtering results by Contact, Contact Group and Author Type	Good for: Presenting survey results Inviting people to reflect on survey results and log Actions Ideas, suggestions and best practice that could improve survey results next time	Good for: Qualitative analysis: i.e. using labels to code different responses