Re: not-too-expensive online survey creation tool

Just FYI: Having come across several new research surveys in my department
created and/or hosted on vendor Web sites (e.g., surveymonkey.com), and
having researched the implications of using these outside vendors, I can
warn against using them for any surveys that collect personal information.
The privacy and security issues are just too great and too risky.
Apparently, even Socrates and Arachne are not in full compliance with
campus and federal privacy/security requirements for research surveys, for
which policies are still being established. The best bet is to build them
yourselves and host them on the DTS servers in the new data center. Contact
DTS for more info on hosting; there might be some requirements on the tools
you can use.

http://dts.asd.berkeley.edu/dts/

paz/
Pat

At 11:41 AM 12/1/2004 -0800, Brian Wood wrote:
>Hi Monica,
>
>The Dept of Human Resources is using a customized version of phpESP
>(http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/) maintained by myself. It's
>PHP/MySQL/Apache. We have it running on a Windows server and IIS (which
>took some work).
>Customizations I've made include URL token-authenticated surveys
>(authentication is transparent to the respondent), functionality that
>reminds respondents if they haven't responded to the email invitation to
>take the survey after X days.
>
>We currently use this for Employee Entrance, Exit and Transfer surveys.
>We are about to launch a campus-wide survey on AB205 Domestic Partner
>compliance.
>
>There are some people at UCB who have patched phpESP to include question
>forking among other things.
>
>Feel free to get in touch if you have questions about phpESP.
>
>Brian Wood
>Programmer/Analyst
>UC Berkeley Human Resources
>
>
>
>Monica Hastings-Smith wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Is anyone currently using or aware of a not-too-expensive online survey
>>creation tool? Files and DB may be deployed in either a Linux/Postgres
>>or Win/SQL Server environment. Proprietary packages are not preferred,
>>but if it's reliable, I'll look into it. Of course those kind of packages
>>do a lot of the work for you, which is appealing!
>>
>>The surveys might range from 1-50 questions with up to 10,000+ possible
>>respondents.
>>
>>Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>>/If the drink is bitter, turn yourself into wine. - Rainer Maria Rilke
>>
>>
>>/Monica Hastings-Smith
>>RSSP Webmaster
>>Marketing Communications - Information Technologies
>>Residential Student Services Programs
>>64(3-7040) mhs@berkeley.edu
>>http://www.housing.berkeley.edu <http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/>
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