OVERVIEW
Target audience: Primarily staff members, but also graduate students who are developing surveys.
Microsoft Forms and LimeSurvey are two tools McGill provides to conduct online surveys/questionnaires.
MS Forms
Microsoft Forms is quick to learn and use, and is perfect for short, simple surveys.
If you wish to use MS Forms, start with Office 365 Forms and Surveys where we introduce the basics functions of the platform. Register here.
IT Service's Collaboration Solutions also offer 30-minute Personal Q&A sessions with a MS Form specialist. Register through bookings here.
LimeSurvey
LimeSurvey has more powerful features than MS Forms, such as granular conditions, and contains many customizable question formats, but has a more complex administrative interface and a steeper learning curve for survey creators.
Our LimeSurvey courses include:
Creating McGill surveys using LimeSurvey
Target Audience: Staff members and supervisor-sponsored students mandated to create official McGill surveys via the surveys.mcgill.ca service.
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills
Duration: 2.5 hours
Course format: Workshop
This hands-on workshop for LimeSurvey administrators provides an overview of the main features of the McGill LimeSurvey service. Attendees will learn to create a typical survey which will highlight features such as single select, multiple select structures used to collect quantitative data, and open text structures used to collect qualitative data. Advanced features such conditions/branching and downloading results to Excel or SPSS will also be covered.
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LimeSurvey consultations
Target Audience: Staff members and graduate students who need assistance with developing official McGill university surveys.
Prerequisites: Creating McGill surveys using LimeSurvey
Duration: 40 minutes
Course format: One-on-One consultation
Registration is required.
Consultations are conducted through Microsoft Teams and are intended to provide hands-on assistance with the development of surveys in LimeSurvey.
If you have specific questions you want answered at the lab, please enter them in the Please describe what Limesurvey topic(s) you need assistance with at the bottom of the registration form.
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ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
- About: Surveys online via LimeSurvey (service description)
- About: Surveys, Quizzes and Forms in Microsoft 365 (service description)
- View all IT training courses