Create an Online Survey for Free With Google Docs

In the past if you wanted to put together a quick survey you have either had to cobble together complicated tools, used an online service that was expensive or incomplete, or paid an external body to get the job done for you.

Now Google is going after yet another slice of the online tool pie with Google Docs. Is there a market they don’t want to own?

I’m not complaining, this is pretty cool.

To create a survey you simply add a new form.

You can add any number of fields, from multiple choice to essay style text boxes. When you are happy with your form you can either enter the data your self or share with others. It’s even possible to share as a web page that you embed in your own site.

As answers come in you can see the whole detail in spreadsheet format. Of course you can save and export this data for use in your own Excel or Database work if you so wish. I expect stats nuts will want to use true statistic applications, but for my purposes the best is …

… yup, it even summarizes the survey for you with pie charts and everything. For the math-challenged like me, this is a dream.

Not a dollar spent, and takes all of 5 minutes to do. Wonderful. I even might have to start taking back all the bad things I have said about Google lately ….. nah ;)

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Google

Comments

6 Responses to “Create an Online Survey for Free With Google Docs”

  1. Ben Barden on March 12th, 2009 2:24 pm

    This looks pretty good! Thanks Chris! :)

  2. tatuka on March 17th, 2009 12:53 pm

    please help me to make my own online survey

  3. ss on May 7th, 2009 12:10 pm

    hello,

    Thanks!
    I had tried it. Everything works pretty well except when I want to get the data summary..
    could u suggest on how i can view a summary report of the survey i created from google docs?

  4. ss on May 7th, 2009 12:14 pm

    got it . sorry!

  5. dgordon on August 19th, 2010 10:23 pm

    Is there any way to save the survey so that you can go back to it later and make changes? Is there anyway to password protect it?

  6. xenonmt2 on January 12th, 2012 2:04 pm

    After I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any approach you may take away me from that service? Thanks!

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