User's Manual

SurveyMonkey User Manual
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III. COLLECTING RESPONSES
Once you have finished designing your survey, you are ready to send the survey
to your audience and collect survey responses. Since the survey tool is an online tool,
respondents will need to access the survey via a link or URL. You may be wondering,
“Where do I get the links to do this?” The following section contains the information
on where to get these links through the use of collectors. You can also check out the
online tutorials for additional information. Click here to view the tutorials on
collectors!
A. What is a Collector?
A collector enables you to collect responses for a survey. After designing your
survey, you are ready to send it out to your audience. In order to get the survey to
your audience, collectors are created. The kind of collector you create will
determine what type of link is created and how it is to be administered.
There are three types of collectors you can create:
1. The Web Link Collector
2. The Email Invitation Collector
3. The Popup Window Collector
Once you are ready to configure your survey for distribution, these collector types are
set up under the Collect icon for that survey:
Collect Icon
Each survey will have a Collectors Page that lists each collector created for a
specific survey.
There is no limit to the number of collectors for Professional subscribers.
However, the Basic subscription is limited to 3 collectors per survey.
Individual surveys can have one collector or multiple collectors running at the
same time. Collectors each have their own unique settings and work independently
of one another to enable greater collection control and survey analysis. If you do
create more than one collector for a specific survey, you may need to make the
settings and restrictions congruent on each one (e.g. if they all need the same
redirect or jump to webpage, thank you page, max response, etc).