Collecting Students (Yr9) Preferences

[Paul_Cluett]

How do people collect students' preferences for their subjects in Yr10/11?

 

We use Survey Monkey because it has branching capability and waterfall of subjects (1st question has a list of subjects, 2nd has the same list but the choice of question 1 is now missing etc etc).

 

But the obstacle we come up against is students not putting in their correct name and thus checking whether everyone has completed it.

 

We looked at Forms; we can check names against the year group but it's too basic to use.

 

What do other people use?

 

Thanks

[ass17]

Our.MIS system has an options module, web based, Sims Options online.

[Paul_Cluett]

We haven't got that option in SIMS.

 

Is it only the online (hosted version)? Is it any good or as complicated as the rest of SIMS?

 

What do other people use?

[David44]

Isn't the solution here to ask for their school email address or username instead of their name? That should make it much easier to cross reference with a list of students to quickly see who hasn't completed the form.

[Paul_Cluett]

That's a good point - thanks.

[hardtailstar]

Isn't the solution here to ask for their school email address or username instead of their name? That should make it much easier to cross reference with a list of students to quickly see who hasn't completed the form.

 

I'd same ask for name too. We have students here that cant remember their logins!

[Chaniel]

For this year, we've just used Google Forms. Restricted to the students so they have to log in with their school email to access the form, their email gets added to their response automatically but we also have then asked for name and tutor group on top of that.

[Paul_Cluett]

I'm interested in how you restrict it to just students - and then get the email address added to the response.

[3s-gtech]

We have a nice little PHP form that the students log into (via an LDAPS bind, local webserver) that lists their options (that I set in a DB table), then they can pick them. When they submit it, it adds them to the DB. We then pull the lot out and use a lookup table in Excel to translate their username and options choices back into a readable table, with counts etc to give class numbers.

 

Neat little system, but if building something like that now I’d want it in Azure somehow.