Since I am not in Education, I decided to look at the Apps under the "Management" tag bar. Survs has the ability to create on-line surveys. This is important to me because I am often asked to create surveys at work or to collect data quickly.
Looking at the pricing, it is better than other sites I have looked at like Survey Monkey. In fact, at no cost you can create unlimited surveys and have up to 200 responses. There are multiple packages that range up to 24000 responses and 24 users for $119 a month. $119 a month is cheap if you have a strong need to collect data, which a lot of companies do. I collect a lot of data in my job via surveys and am always looking for other options. People have come to expect a survey be delivered over e-mail.
Here is the link http://www.survs.com/
Try it out. It may be a cheap option for people working on data collection for a thesis or dissertation too.
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The price seems expensive to me, but as you say, if a company has a need for the kind of data one gets from surveys, and this application makes the gathering of the information easier, then it must be worth it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not in business, so I don't know how the application might work. I wonder if it just gives the company the survey forms only, or if it somehow helps with gathering the people it would go out to, and the sending and getting back part of the process. Maybe it helps with all these steps and this is the reason for the cost?
I realize that I don't understand "apps." My son has an iPhone and is downloading them all the time, but my cell is not connected to the web. Once you download an application is it like a software program on your computer? The program helps you perform whatever function the application is designed to allow?
I know this level of ignorance must be shocking. This is why I'm in the class!
Thank you for pointing out two interesting applications.
Cynthia
Thinking about my last comment, I remembered the video "Cloud Computing." I'm assuming both of these applications would be an example of it, so the analogy with software is completely wrong?
ReplyDeleteAnother p.s. I noticed that one of the things the app does is analyze the results. If it does this task well, then wow, I can see how useful it would be. It also brags it uses the technology we read about "ajax." I don't really understand this technology, but maybe as I hear it enough, spiraling back to it enough, I will. All my other questions are probably obvious from the blurbs on the marketing page, but I still wondered....
ReplyDeleteIt does look like a useful application, and your observation about its use in education was astute.
Matt, you have found some useful apps for the business world. Hopefully you realized that pbwiki is now pbworks which is what we use for our course site. Wikis are collaborative websites so the uses in business could be endless. And of course, surveys online are always handy. I subscribe to an educational survey site that only charges $99 yearly so your price seemed quite high in the business world. These sites provide survey tools and analysis and that means they are priceless when doing research! Thanks Cynthia for posting a response!
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