These reports help organisations understand their position, make comparisons in key areas, recognise common trends, understand differences and highlight areas of improvement. We create your unique benchmarking groups and combine datasets to produce anonymised benchmarking reports, as well enabling access to an institution's own data. Benchmarking surveys are developed in collaboration with other organisations - you develop and distribute the same survey across the group and collect results. Using benchmarking services 1 you get greater returns on your data. This enables you to capture high-value, quality results, which give real meaning to your data. There are a range of question types and formats as well as piping, routing, survey access control and email distribution (with a sending capacity of up to 5,000 as standard on project and organisation licences). You can create surveys as simple or as complex as you need. As simple or as sophisticated as you need Whenever there’s a problem the support team at Jisc are the most responsive team I’ve ever come across.”Įmma Street, research and evaluation co-ordinator, data and student analytics, The Open University Key features Built for education and researchĪs powerful as other commercial survey tool providers, online surveys was made specifically for education and research institutions with better capabilities for surveying in the sector. “It really does deliver easy to produce and distribute surveys, and fast and effective ways to extract your data. Across departments to evaluate recent changes or identify improvements.Support teams gathering staff opinions and student voices.Researchers who need to capture essential participant feedback.The online surveys service has organisation-wide appeal and can be used by everyone, including: Use them to gather vital organisational data and help you make better informed decisions about the future direction of your organisation.Ĭontinued use and rerunning your surveys year-on-year will help you to create a rich dataset of longitudinal data and enables your organisation to see how far you’ve progressed. Online surveys provides the functionality you need to create, run and analyse surveys across your entire organisation. (based on current online survey licence holder data, October 2019) How this service helps you They provide you with the information and answers you need to help you and your organisation make decisions, prove or disprove a theory, instruct and inform future strategy.Ĩ8% of UK higher education institutions use online surveys Surveys are an everyday part of education and research from gathering organisational data or capturing research evidence, right through to analysing results and creating impact in presenting your findings.