Best Practices | JC Student Surveys

Raffle when we got to 80% completion.
Early dismissal on friday at 1:30 once the survey week ended.
Email reminders, posters, and reminders during meetings.
We have designated a day and time for students to take the survey earlier in the week and encourage them to complete the survey at that time. Students can always take the survey on their own, but we want to remind them to complete the survey.
During all student business meeting to start the week we played 2 of the SEA videos from the website and center director and president of student government encouraged participation from all students. CD explained how some of the feedback from the sept survey helped us to make some specific improvements. Posters from the website were Hung around campus. Center director sent a thank you email to the student body after the first 48 hours of the survey window appreciating all those who took the time to complete the survey and share feedback, encouraging others to do so. 6 days into the window all students who had taken the survey were thanked with a special make your own ice-cream sundae event in the cafeteria after lunch. They showed the “thank you for taking the survey email’ as a ticket to enjoy this special dessert.
Promotional fliers posted in all departments, seasalt chocolate bars on students’ beds for reminders, pizza incentive for center for 80% participation.
Swim trips to the hot springs, basketball games on center. No incentives have been used but we have taken more student input and focused on their interests.
Monetary incentive for all that took the survey – drawing for the first two days of survey taken – once hit 80% rate; Pizza party for all centers.
We announce at assembly. Remind students and provide incentives for completing.
We announce at assembly. Send out email reminders. We reward the students for participation. They show us their completed email and we give them doughnut.
We promoted the SEA with emails, at dorm meetings, in the classroom and in the center business meeting. The center offered a $5.00 dollar incentive for all students who completed the survey as well as an ice cream social if the center meet the Target completion percentage.
Promotion, communication and information sharing on what the SEA is and why students are being asked to participate. When the survey is open, daily reminders to students on the current participation of the center and time students have to complete the survey. Once the survey has been completed, we announce students that have an email showing they have completed the survey are entered into a raffle for an incentive. The center uses Wednesday morning CMT to request students sign in and take the survey at that time.
I have used promotional activities in the past leading up to the SEA such as bags of goodies with the SEA announcement flier attached to them to remind the students the SEA was coming up. This time I did an incentive the week before to see how many students check their email and responded to me. Nothing about the SEA was mentioned in this email, it was to see how many students check their email regularly.
The spo sent out a daily email reminding students to take the survey. An incentive was offered to every student who brought their thank you Page of the survey to the spo office. For those that did they were able to choose from three $5.00 gift cards to a fast-food restaurant. The career pathways director also encouraged the instructors to give the students 5 mins each morning to complete the survey. We did not reach the goal however we did much better than previous surveys. We are thinking of new and creative ways to reach the goal on the next survey.
Posters out on campus, staff in the cafe walking around with posters, talking in several business meetings about the survey, sending emails daily to students and staff about the survey.
Full staff to promote it better. We’ll set aside a time where all can participate and not take their ‘free’ time.

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Raffle when we got to 80% completion.

Early dismissal on friday at 1:30 once the survey week ended.

Email reminders, posters, and reminders during meetings.

We have designated a day and time for students to take the survey earlier in the week and encourage them to complete the survey at that time. Students can always take the survey on their own, but we want to remind them to complete the survey.

Promotional fliers posted in all departments, seasalt chocolate bars on students’ beds for reminders, pizza incentive for center for 80% participation.

Swim trips to the hot springs, basketball games on center. No incentives have been used but we have taken more student input and focused on their interests.

Monetary incentive for all that took the survey – drawing for the first two days of survey taken – once hit 80% rate; Pizza party for all centers.

We announce at assembly. Remind students and provide incentives for completing.

We announce at assembly. Send out email reminders. We reward the students for participation. They show us their completed email and we give them doughnut.

We promoted the SEA with emails, at dorm meetings, in the classroom and in the center business meeting. The center offered a $5.00 dollar incentive for all students who completed the survey as well as an ice cream social if the center meet the Target completion percentage.

Posters out on campus, staff in the cafe walking around with posters, talking in several business meetings about the survey, sending emails daily to students and staff about the survey.

Full staff to promote it better. We’ll set aside a time where all can participate and not take their ‘free’ time.