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.

1. If you are new to AskWU , you must first contact Danielle Bristow in the Office of Orientation to discuss your project before you can work directly with Student Voice.  Please call 314-935-8350, or email her at danielle_bristow@wustl.edu to discuss the details of your project.

2. 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. Your project request will be forwarded to Danielle Bristow for approval.  

3. 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.

4. After you submit your survey below, wait to hear back from an Student Voice 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.

5. Review your online draft(s) and give feedback on your survey via email to the Student Voice 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.

6. When your survey is ready to be administered, you will be given a designated url for your survey that can be forwarded to your constituents. If you are planning to use the palm pilots, you must go to the Office of Orientation to sync and check-out the palm pilots. The Office of Orientation is located in the Women's Building, Room 108.

7. 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), Garrie Burr (gburr@wustl.edu) and Danielle Bristow (danielle_bristow@wustl.edu).  

8. If you used palm pilots to administer your survey, please return them immediately to the Office of Orientation, so the palms can be hot-synched, which makes the results available immediately.

9. Using your StudentVoice username and password, you can now access the survey results immediately. If you have any questions on how to interpret the data, please work with Student Voice directly.

10. While it is almost-certain that your survey will be prepared 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.

Thank you for using Student Voice for your assessment and evaluation needs.   Any questions should be directed to Danielle Bristow at 314-935-8350 or danielle_bristow@wustl.edu.