Is it possible to link Google Forms to tokens?
June 5, 2015 4:44 PM Subscribe
Help me link survey responses to specific individuals
When I was a grad student, I used Qualtrics and we could feed the system a spreadsheet of names, emails, and tokens, which would then be embedded into the responses for identification through individualized links.
I am now at a company without a Qualtrics account. To me, it looks like Google Forms only accepts anonymous responses (unless I ask for people's names or emails, and if I demand that they be signed in it requires an internal account linked to my company's email, which is hosted on google. That is, if I send it to bob@bigcorporation.com and he clicks the link, it will not log his email or other details.)
If I have to upgrade to a paid account, I may need to do that, but :
A) Can I get what I want out of Google Forms
and
B) Does anyone know of a free service that takes care of the following:
1. Customizable survey appearance
2. IDs users as I described above
3. Allows unlimited responses?
I'm guessing not, because SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics certainly don't, and I think Forms does not either. But maybe I would be pleasantly surprised?
When I was a grad student, I used Qualtrics and we could feed the system a spreadsheet of names, emails, and tokens, which would then be embedded into the responses for identification through individualized links.
I am now at a company without a Qualtrics account. To me, it looks like Google Forms only accepts anonymous responses (unless I ask for people's names or emails, and if I demand that they be signed in it requires an internal account linked to my company's email, which is hosted on google. That is, if I send it to bob@bigcorporation.com and he clicks the link, it will not log his email or other details.)
If I have to upgrade to a paid account, I may need to do that, but :
A) Can I get what I want out of Google Forms
and
B) Does anyone know of a free service that takes care of the following:
1. Customizable survey appearance
2. IDs users as I described above
3. Allows unlimited responses?
I'm guessing not, because SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics certainly don't, and I think Forms does not either. But maybe I would be pleasantly surprised?
You can prepare the URL which you send out in order to pre-populate form fields, but I don't believe there's a way to then have an invisible field, so you'll run the risk of respondents changing their token.
posted by books for weapons at 4:48 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by books for weapons at 4:48 PM on June 5, 2015
Response by poster: Ehhh, this was very legal when I did it in grad school. It was fully disclosed and we don't intend to hide it here either - just make it easier for them not to fill out a cumbersome details section. These are our users who select to give us feedback.
posted by namesarehard at 4:49 PM on June 5, 2015
posted by namesarehard at 4:49 PM on June 5, 2015
Typeform ticks all your boxes.
posted by third word on a random page at 5:46 AM on June 6, 2015
posted by third word on a random page at 5:46 AM on June 6, 2015
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posted by Chocolate Pickle at 4:46 PM on June 5, 2015