Online questionnaires offer a whole range of advantages compared with offline questionnaires. On this page, we summarise the key differences and explain the benefits of using an online questionnaire.
Table of Contents
Planning the questionnaire
- Define your objectives
- Develop the questions (an online questionnaire gives you more options here)
- Define the participants (online questionnaires also offer more flexibility here, especially when it comes to reaching participants)
Create the questionnaire
- Faster and easier with an online survey tool
- Predefined question templates
- Different question types
- Multimedia elements
- Logic, required questions and individual paths
Pretest: in real time and at no extra cost
- Running a pretest helps you collect important data such as dropout rates and completion time.
- Depending on the results, you may need to return to phase 1, planning.
- With no printing or postage costs, you can launch, test and close the online questionnaire.
Inviting participants: a key advantage of online questionnaires
- You save printing and postage costs.
- You make it easier for participants to submit the questionnaire.
- It makes no difference whether you are surveying 100 or 100,000 participants.
Responses: with an online questionnaire, you can ensure that
- participants do not respond more than once,
- questions cannot be skipped where required,
- certain responses must follow a specific format, for example numbers only,
- only a specified number of responses can be selected, for example 2 out of 10,
- and you can use many other useful features.
Analysis: alongside invitations, this is where some of the biggest advantages lie
- No manual data entry, reducing sources of error
- Graphical analysis at the click of a button
- Filtering results
- Time savings
- Live results
Conclusion
As you can see, an online questionnaire offers advantages over a conventional paper questionnaire at every stage of a survey, provided you use the right survey tool.
What is LamaPoll?
LamaPoll is a survey tool for creating online questionnaires. Our survey tool lets you create, run and analyse online questionnaires quickly and easily. Create your questionnaire in just a few steps, customise it for your organisation and conveniently invite customers or employees by email. An online questionnaire enables you to gather insights quickly and easily to improve customer or employee satisfaction. You can register for the LamaPoll survey tool free of charge and immediately create and run online surveys with up to 50 participants. If you need more responses for your online questionnaire, simply choose one of our plans: billed monthly, cancel any month. You can also choose from our online questionnaire templates and examples.
