Fluid Surveys is a good tool for quickly creating surveys that offer multiple response formats. Many free survey programs only allow one type of response format, multiple choice or text. Fluid Surveys allows you to combine both formats in one survey. The drag and drop interface is so easy to use that you can build a survey in less than a minute. Watch the video below to see how easy it is to use.

Applications for Education
Fluid Surveys and other online survey programs are useful for “dipsticking” for knowledge in an anonymous form. By having students anonymously answer some questions that you put on a survey you can get a sense of what your students know and what you may need to reteach.

Fluid Surveys could also be a good resource for conducting an end of course response survey. The option of combining multiple choice responses and text responses allows students to share as much or as little as they want.