Web feedback forms are increasingly being used to solicit academic research data, as well as for other relevant purposes. As part of the PK5 exam requirements, students must create a simple web feedback form using Kielo's Mailaa software to demonstrate that they know how to create and deploy such a form if the need arises. The Sample Web Feedback Form gives instructions for how to code all of the Mailaa options.

Requirements and Procedure for the Feedback Form

The form created for the PK5 exam requirements should be a separate web page (as a research webform would normally be) which must have at least three different webform elements. The six Mailaa options available for your form are (not including the multiple-choice checkboxes, which do not work with Mailaa):

1. Radio-button checkboxes where one choice CAN be selected;
2. Radio-button checkboxes where one choice MUST be selected;
3. Radio-button checkboxes with a default (although changeable) choice indicated;
4. Free text-entry boxes;
5. Pull-down menu options where one choice may be selected;
6. Respondant name and e-mail address fields (these count as 1).

There must be a coherent idea linking the elements, as well as instructions which explain how to respond to the questions. The form elements must in an A-B-C or 1-2-3 sequence and also be "identified" so that the answers received via the form will make sense (this will be demonstrated in class, and is also part of the Sample Web Feedback Form instructions (see link above). There must also be a 'Thank you' page for after the form has been submitted (either the Mailaa default or a customized version is acceptable).

The form need not be "complicated"; the idea is simply to demonstrate that you know how to create a functional web feedback form. Images and audio may be used with your form, but are not required. If images and/or audio are used with your form, these would suffice for the PK5 image and audio requirements, as if they had been part of your HTML paper.

Put your e-mail address into the form so that responses will go to you. Before your exam (after you have notified John that all of your web documents are ready), John will complete and submit the form to you and check the 'sequencing' and 'identification' of the output from the "sender copy" he receives. After you have completed the exam, your form may be de-activated by removing your e-mail address (unless you want it to remain active).

Student and Staff Webform Examples; Customized 'Thank-you' Pages

PK5 Quiz Form Example #1 illustrates one way the exam requirement could be met, using the standard Mailaa 'thank-you' which repeats the answers the user has given. Quiz Form Example #2 shows how you can add your own, customized 'thank-you' page.

Also of interest may be past examples of student usage of webform surveys to solicit research data, as well as the brief background on the limitations of this procedure for obtaining such data. Other uses of the Mailaa software include an online Course Registration Form and the English Section Online Staff Evaluation Forms. Data from all of these may be used when designing your form.