Conducting a survey? Use the university's designated software Qualtrics

This reminder is for those who use surveys (faculty, staff and students) -- WSU has a site license for Qualtrics, which became the official institutional survey tool for WSU use in 2012. Listed at the link below are some of the benefits related to using Qualtrics for your survey needs. Contact Charles Burdsal or Sandra Ranney at the Social Science Research Lab at 978-3384.

- Reduces overall cost as the university has a site license for Qualtrics so you do not have to pay a third party vendor.
- Get help with your survey design, methodology and survey questions.
- Access to on campus survey experts to optimize your survey and response rate.
- Be certain that you are obtaining the best survey sample for your survey.
- Reduces survey fatigue as we can create reduced samples that more approximately target your survey population.
- Ensure that you get accurate email lists of students, staff and faculty for your survey.
- Help protect the emails of faculty, staff and students.
- Know that who answers your survey is who you want answering your survey.
- Provide analytics on your surveys and results.
- Help avoid having the university listed as a spammer by internet service providers.
- Help eliminate the security risk of embedded links when sending out emails by having your survey listed on the WSU portal.