Surveys

Collect meaningful feedback and analyze with ease

  • Design surveys with advanced logic and diverse question types, including geospatial mapping
  • Enhance engagement with mobile-first design, auto-save, and completion reminders
  • Easily import and transcribe handwritten responses with Form Sync
  • Access and analyze results directly within the platform

Get the insights you need with our versatile and comprehensive Survey feature. Whether it’s a quick poll or a detailed questionnaire, Go Vocal’s Surveys make it easy to gather meaningful feedback and make informed decisions.

This bottom-up participation method empowers residents to shape policies and initiatives directly, leveraging their unique position to identify and address gaps in current policies, fostering a more inclusive and responsive democratic process. Go Vocal offers everything to set you up for success. From an intuitive space for residents to propose, support, and discuss initiatives to a strong back-end that gives you valuable insights into what truly matters to your community.

Why use Go Vocal’s Survey tool?

  • Versatile and intuitive survey builder: Create surveys with a wide range of question types, including short answers, multiple choice, image choice, and advanced geospatial questions such as drop pins, draw lines, and polygons.
  • Advanced logic jumps: Guide respondents through tailored paths based on their answers, ensuring they only see questions relevant to them.
  • Mobile-first, step-based user flow: Enhance participant engagement with a user-friendly design that works seamlessly on any device.
  • Auto-save and completion reminders: Participants can save progress and return anytime, with reminders to complete unfinished surveys.
  • Integrated results visualization: Access and analyze survey data directly within the platform, without the need for external tools.
  • Offline support and Form Sync: Print surveys for offline use and easily upload responses back into the platform. Use Form Sync to automatically import and transcribe handwritten responses using OCR technology.
  • Option to embed external surveys: If you prefer, embed surveys from external services like Typeform, Google Forms, or SurveyMonkey directly into the platform.
  • Human intelligence meets AI: Let our AI-powered input analysis tool Sensemaking help you process and summarize key insights.
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The addition of these online input opportunities transformed Engage Allen from an information board into a true engagement space and allowed us to hear from far more people than just those who were able to attend in-person meetings.

Erik Waldbauer
Marketing Specialist, City of Allen, TX

See Surveys in action

Discover how easy it is to build and engage with surveys. Visit Vocal Point, our interactive demo platform, to experience our Survey tool and its advanced question types, including mapping options.

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