Ithaca College

Ithaca College now owns a campus-wide license to Qualtrics, one of the most professional online survey creation tools on the market.  As an Ithaca College employee or student, you can request a Qualtrics account to create, distribute and analyze results of your survey free of charge.  Just follow the procedure outlined at the new IC Survey Research Center, a website created by the Office of Institutional Research.

Many IC faculty, students and staff have already switched from SurveyMonkey or SurveyGizmo to Qualtrics and find it simple and easy to use.  Qualtrics has powerful features to help you customize everything from the look and feel of the survey to the type and format of the questions.  Finally, the survey distribution, data analysis and report generation capabilities are the best we have seen in a commercial product.

Please take a moment to explore the new IC Survey Research Center website which contains useful information on the following:

• Requesting a Qualtrics account for your survey
• Using best practices for survey research
• Determining if Human Subject Review (HSR) Board approval is needed
• Timing your survey so it doesn’t conflict with other surveys
• Obtaining email addresses for survey recipients
• Learning the steps to use Qualtrics

Members of the Office of Institutional Research are available to help you get started on your first survey and to assist you along the way.  Apply for an account or contact us directly at 607-274-3164 or iroffice@ithaca.edu.