Easy Survey
"The three chief virtues of a programmer are laziness, impatience and hubris."
- Larry Wall
Current release: v. 0.17
- Language: python
- Current version released: February 28, 2005
- First version released: November 2004
- Usage: frequently used by research teams and other groups
- Download: survey.zip
- Installation:
- Unzip Easy Survey into a location of your choice. It will unzip
into a directory called "survey", but feel free to change this.
- Change the main directory and files with .cgi extensions to be
executable. All other files should be read-only by default.
- Update BASE_URL and BASE_PATH in config.py to the location of
the survey directory, and other variables as needed.
- Description: This package enables you to easily create, edit, distribute, and output data from online surveys, and to retain full control
of your data without having to pay a commercial survey-creation tool to
release it.
- Features:
- Simple, powerful, and flexible text-based survey creation and editing (with formatting tips and examples)
- Protection of data directories from web access
- Administrator authentication and survey protection
- Surveys can be test-run without saving data
- Set opening and closing dates for a survey
- Data can be downloaded in CSV format for manipulation in your favorite quantitative analysis tool
- A few of the upcoming features:
- Setup from browser
- Survey-taker logins, email invitations and reminders, and response tracking
- Encryption of data directories
- Form-based survey creation
- Optional status bar at the bottom of eacy survey page (page x of y, or question k of n)
- Ability for advanced users to add new variables such as %PAGE% that can be used in survey creation
- Additional export formats such as SPSS and HTML