Thank you again. This is really going to help us out this year.

MichelleB--Glad you liked it! Just make sure you pay attention to the 10 day timeframe--you definitely can't get into it past the 10 days. I would close it out on day 9 and print out all your results then to be on the safe side. (Which also means you could have typed whatever you wanted to into the survey--I can't see it now anyway!)

ThreeJs--Q4 - Q8:
Q4. Please indicate how much you agree with the following statements: (strongly agree, somewhat agree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat disagree, strongly disagree)
1. I feel welcome in school when I come to volunteer.
2. I believe my volunteer efforts are appreciated by the teachers.
3. I believe my volunteer efforts are appreciated by the school administration.
4. Teachers at (school name) like having volunteers in the classroom.
5. It is easy to volunteer at school if you want to. In hindsight, this was a poorly worded question, and I wouldn't use it again.


Q5. Please indicate how much you agree with the following statements.
1. I receive adequate instructions from teachers when volunteering in the classroom.
2. I believe my volunteer time has been used wisely.
3. I am not given enough to do when I come to volunteer.

Q6. Next year, I expect that I will volunteer...

More than I did this year.
About the same amount as I did this year.
Less than I did this year.
Not at all, because I am leaving the school.
Not at all, for reasons other than leaving the school.

Q7. I would volunteer more if... (check all that apply)

There were more opportunities at night.
There were more opportunities on weekends.
The classroom teacher needed me.
I had more advance notice.
Someone would ask me.
I did not work during the day.
I did not have younger children at home.
I felt more welcome.
Not applicable
Other, Please Specify


Q8. Please indicate how much you agree about the following statements regarding the administration of the volunteer program.
1. I am notified of appropriate volunteer activities.
2. I get too many emails asking for volunteer help.
3. I like getting volunteer requests by email.
4. The emails I get asking for volunteer time contain an appropriate amount and kind of information.

Love IT!! Took the survey but didn't answer many of the questions, just because I'm not from your school and I found it hard to lie and pretend I was. (sometimes I think I'm a little too about the rules... [img]smile.gif[/img] )

Anyhow, I'm going to use it for council now. I registered for the free one also. It's a great tool and I'm happy you introduced us to it!

Hello - I took the survey and was printing the pages out as I took it, The printer got stuck, what were the questions 4-8. Please help!!

Thanks in advance.

Took the survey. Very nice and easy to take.

Thanks to everyone who has given comments so far! Some answers to what's come up--

1) I've used the free version of Zoomerang ( www.zoomerang.com ) for a number of years now, although this particular survey was the most complicated one so far. They have a version you can pay for, but it's something like $399 a year--way over what I can spend. The surveys are exceptionally easy to set up--once I had the questions figured out that I wanted to ask, this one probably only took me half an hour or so. You can start from scratch, or they have a number of templates you can use.

2) I'm the only one who gets the results. If I want anyone else to see them, I have to distribute them. The bad thing about the free Zoomerang is that while it compiles the results for you, and it's easy enough to print the screens out, you can't export them to a Word or Excel document (although I'm fiddling with some cutting and pasting to see if I can get something decent to work out that way). Also, you can only view the results for the first 10 days the survey is open. At the end of 10 days, I think you can pay $50 to look at the results for an extended period of time. So, you really need to pay attention to when your 10 days ends.

3) My volunteer database has about 200 families on it, only 8 of whom don't have email. In the perfect world, I would get paper copies out to at least those 8 people, preferably even the whole school. But, as my children are quick to remind me, I'm not perfect! This is the first time I do something like this, and I wanted to just try it out and see if I got any worthwhile feedback first. If some real problems come to light, maybe I will expand it at some point. But I don't have the time or energy to deal with all the paper and hand compilation at this point.

4) There are a couple of ways of distributing the survey. One is to do what I did here, which was to post the survey URL somewhere. That eliminates the need for you to send the email addresses to Zoomerang, although they have a good privacy policy. The other way is to set up an address book, and send them out through the address book. The advantage of using the address book is that it will send reminders to people if they don't complete the survey.

5) You can also set it up so that a computer can only respond to the survey one time, if you want--prevents "ballot stuffing." I did set this one up for one time voting, but, in hindsight, I shouldn't have done that so that you could go back and look at it again if you wanted to. You can allow unlimited voting--good if you were going to set up a station at your school's open house, for example, to get opinions on something.