Who? What? When? Where? Why? WU?
Welcome to AskWU, Washington University in St. Louis' survey feature
powered by StudentVoice! AskWU is a great service that allows Washington University students, faculty, and staff to create surveys for their respective organizations, classes, and other affiliations. Offering both a web-based option and a PDA-based option, AskWU allows surveyors to obtain instant, accurate results in an easy, time-efficient way. Whether assessing the success of a social program or taking a general poll to get a class' viewpoint on a certain subject, AskWU surveys offer endless possibilities for the Washington University community. Stop guessing what your audience wants or how successful an event was - find out for sure with AskWU!"
Before submitting a survey, please read the following tips and pointers. Incomplete or incorrect surveys will be returned, so it is to your advantage to read the following tips carefully so that your survey submission is successful.
If you are new to AskWU, you must submit your survey through this webiste. If you have used AskWu previously, you can submit your survey directly through the Student Voice website at www.studentvoice.com. You will need your Student Voice username and password to submit your survey.
1. Before submitting the survey, determine what demographical information you want to ask for in the survey, if you haven't already. Sometime project leaders forget how valuable demographics of respondents can be. Please consider asking gender, year in school, college/school, race/ethnicity, residential status, age, etc. Demographical information, in varying capacities can be helpful as you make assumptions from the results.
2. After you submit your survey below, wait to hear back from an OSA staff member in order to gain access to your survey draft for review. If you are using a palm-based survey you will need to review it on the palm. If you have a web-based survey, you will be sent to a password protected site for review. Drafts of surveys must be reviewed by the project leader to ensure all questions are properly worded, formatted and that nothing was omitted.
3. Review your online draft(s) and give feedback on your survey via email to the OSA staff member communicating with you. If changes are necessary, please outline them clearly in the email. If the survey is fine and ready for your approval, please indicate such in the email.
4. When your survey is ready to be administered, the OSA staff member will contact you via email giving you your direct web-link access to the
web-based surveys, or alerting you to pick up your palm-pilot(s) for
palm-based surveys. Palm-pilots can be picked up in the Office of Student Activities, Women's Building room 20 between 9:00am - 4:30pm.
5. Administer your survey! This consists of 1) e-mailing out the link to
the uploaded survey if doing a web-based survey, or 2) obtaining the PDAs before your event and conducting the survey at your event, or 3) both uploading a link and obtaining the PDAs if using both options. Note: If doing an event-based survey, please consider bringing a supply of paper-versions of your surveys just-in-case there is a malfunction with your computers or the palm-pilots. Please keep the palms plugged in for as long as possible before and after administering the survey. Before administering the survey, check one last time that the survey is working and accepting the values you want.
NOTE: All bulk email messages going to an entire population of students require approval from Rob Wild (rob.wild@wustl.edu), and Garrie Burr (gburr@wustl.edu) should be contacted about sending out such mailings.
6. If you used palm pilots to administer your survey, please return them
immediately to the Office of Student Activities, so the palms can be
hot-synched, which makes the results available immediately.
7. The OSA staff member will send to you via email your password
information to access your survey results at www.studentvoice.com. Generally your default username and password are you're your first
initial in front of your last name.
8. Within approximately a week of completing the administration of your survey, you will be asked to complete a web-based assessment on your StudentVoice project leader experience. Your feedback will assist in continually improving the StudentVoice process.
9. While it is almost-certain that your survey will be finished in a matter of days, please allow anywhere from one to two weeks for your survey to be sent, reviewed, edited, and finalized depending on the volume of surveys submitted at the time and the complexity of your particular survey.
NOTE: If you are a first time AskWU user, please do not contact the Student Voice staff directly; first communicate questions or concerns through the Office of Student Activities. If you are a previous user of AskWU, please work directly with Student Voice staff on the administration of your future surveys. Simply go to www.studentvoice.com and use your username and password to gain access and submit your new surveys. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact the Office of Student Activities at 314-935-5994 or by email at osaleadership@wustl.edu .
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