Background - HelloYeew/ku-polls GitHub Wiki

KU staff and students often want to conduct polls or surveys within KU, or within a unit or organization at KU. The polls or surveys provide input for making decisions, planning events, and learning others’ preferences and ideas, but they aren’t critical (like voting for a representative).

The most common poll/survey questions are multiple choice, where the poll taker selects a choice from a list of choices.

There are applications for this on the Internet, such as Google Forms and SurveyMonkey, but they all have limitations or unwanted features. Google Forms is clumsy and a returning visitor cannot see his previously submitted choices, but he can submit new choices if the form settings are set to allow it. Google Forms do not have a setting for automatic start and end date; the form creator must manually enable/disable responses.

SurveyMonkey has limits on free forms, including the number of survey items and number of responses.