It might be useful to create your own comparison chart to help you to choose the tool that will meet the specific needs of the survey you are planning. Start by reviewing the tool to make sure that it enables you to meet the:
Survey Objectives
Respondent Characteristics
Types of Questions to be used
Time Scale
Results Format needed
Data Storage needed
Here are some of the features of the tool which you may wish to compare:
Costs
Technical requirements
Number of surveys you can create
Number of responses to a survey
Question types available
Multimedia features needed
Survey layout
Survey deployment methods
Reporting features
Data storage
Privacy
Risk of data loss
Export features
Ease of use
Benefits
Potential issues
Customer support available
To get an overview of some of the online survey tools available take a look at this useful comparison chart:
http://www.techsoup.org/binaries/files/SurveyToolsComparisonChart.pdf
NOW Survey Tool – This is the survey tool within the VLE (NOW). This tool can be added to your learning room, where students will access and complete surveys. The results can then be viewed within the tool. You can reuse surveys by copying them to other learning rooms in NOW. http://now.ntu.ac.uk
Trust NTU – In house survey tool developed by Andy Sutton and Kristan Hopkins-Burke based on the earlier Autoform tool. www.ntu.ac.uk/trustntu
Survey Monkey – A web based survey tool with a limit of 100 responses for free or the full range of features for $19.99 per month. http://www.surveymonkey.com/free/paid
Survey GIZMO – A web based survey tool with a limit of 250 responses for free or various levels of functionality for a monthly payment. http://www.surveygizmo.com
This short screencast takes you through the basics of using SurveyMonkey to create an evaluation survey and then demonstrates how you can include it within the submission view of an Assessment within the Nottingham Trent University Online Workspace (NOW):