Create an Online Survey/Questionnaire With Google Docs

From: http://www.amisampath.com/2009/11/how-to-create-online.html
I have been using Google Docs for quite a sometime now to solve a nasty problem most of us will have to face very often. The problem is how to access that last word document you saved from your home PC, when you are at office or working with a computer in some other place. On the other hand, when you are at a library referring some books, but not having access to your own computer to note down some of the important extracts into a word document, Google Docs might be a handy solution if you have access to a public computer in the library.

The aim of this post is not to talk much about the uses of Google Docs (which expands much beyond the few uses I’ve mentioned above), but to describe how to use Google Docs as a survey tool to collect responses for a research project or for a customer survey for a business organization.

For last few years, sites like Surveymonkey and SurveyGizmo used to serve this need for many researchers but a secret most of these people didn’t know is that, Google Docs comes with an inbuilt feature of creating professional looking online surveys just like Surveymonkey and SurveyGizmo. Most important thing is, it comes to you 100% free to collect unlimited responses, where as most of the traditional survey tools limit it to 100 or 500 responses for the free versions. You can easily create your questionnaire as a Google form and share a web link (URL) through email to get responses from your target respondents. If you have a website, you can easily embed the questionnaire into one of your web pages to give it a more professional look and feel.