Google Forms

March 18, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Productivity & Utility

googleforms

Availability: All Labs | Faculty/Staff | Access
Part of: Google Apps
Comparable: Qualtrics Research Suite

Google Forms is a tool that allows collecting information from users via a personalized survey or quiz. The information is then collected and automatically connected to a spreadsheet with the same name. The spreadsheet is populated with the survey and quiz responses.  Forms can be embedded in websites for surveys, information gathering, request forms, sign-up forms, etc.

Tags: cloud

Celestia

March 18, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingDesign & Visualization
Availability: Free Download
celestiaComparable: Google Earth, Starry Night Pro, Stellarium

Celestia is a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.  All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A ‘point-and-goto’ interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.  Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that’s not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

Qualtrics Research Suite

March 18, 2015 by Andy Voelker
Categories: Analysis & ModelingAssessment & Tutorials

qualtrics

Availability: Contact CLAS OAT
Comparable: SurveyShare, SurveyMonkey
Training: Project Mosaic Workshops

The Qualtrics Research Suite is an advanced online surveying tool.  It allows users to build a survey using drag and drop tools.  Survey authors can select from varying types of questions including multiple choice, true/false, write-in, matching, check-all-that-apply, organize lists, and more.  Authors can also build in logic such as if/then to create responsive surveys that react dynamically with how the users answer.  Surveys can be taken all within a browser window and can accept forms of authentication to segment intended audiences.  At the conclusion of the survey, authors have a suite of analytic tools available to pull statistics from the received data.

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