Satchel Pulse Survey Builder - Create custom school surveys easily
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Why Survey Builder?

Survey Builder is an online custom survey creator built to give schools valuable insights into their communities. That’s why all surveys are anonymous, reliable, accessible and welcoming to all ages and capabilities.

  • Create your own questions
  • Get instant, easy-to-analyse results
  • Issue ready-made questionnaires on a range of topics
  • Hear from every voice with accessible and SEND friendly surveys
  • Engage with English as an additional language (EAL) families with on-demand expert translations
  • AI technology sorts free-text responses based on sentiment
  • Unlimited surveys, unlimited questions, unlimited responses

Accessible, inclusive online surveys

In order for your surveys to be as valuable as possible, you need to filter out irrelevant questions and get as many responses as possible. The more feedback you receive from your school community, the better changes you can make to support them. This is why we’ve built an online survey platform with accessibility front of mind so you can hear from every voice in your school.

  • Translate surveys into 40+ languages
  • Read questions aloud with text-to-speech functionality
  • Simple slider responses support younger pupils and those with SEND
  • Customise surveys to reflect your school's brand and sense of community
Surveys for the entire school community which can be translated into 40+ languages
Create student mental health surveys or choose ready-made emotional wellbeing questionnaires

Community-wide insights

The custom nature of Survey Builder means that it can be used to collect data from any group within the school community. Uncover insights into employee satisfaction, make informed decisions about student wellbeing, or even send short surveys out to parents. The surveys you build can be answered online including from mobile devices, allowing you to reach a wider audience.

  • A wide range of potential use cases, one simple piece of survey software
  • Access a variety of survey respondents with easy-to-use implementation tools
  • Create custom survey themes that cater to different members of your community
  • Survey participants can respond from their mobile device using our simple user interface
Create student mental health surveys or choose ready-made emotional wellbeing questionnaires

Results collated for you

When it comes to surveys, the hardest part of the entire process is collating results - collecting feedback, sifting through free-text responses and making sense of the data. That’s why with Survey Builder, we do all the hard work for you. We provide you with instant results, display them in graphs and even sort free-text responses based on sentiment.

  • Results displayed in easy-to-understand graphs
  • Easily share results with colleagues, governors or Ofsted
  • Receive results instantly as your online surveys are completed
  • AI technology sorts free-text responses based on sentiment
  • Sentiment analysis also identifies key themes in open-text responses
All survey results are collated for school leaders so they can take action based on data
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Book a demo

Find out what Survey Builder can do for you with a short, no-strings-attached demo at a time that suits you. You’ll be able to ask any questions, get pricing and discuss the unique needs of your school.

How it works

Our survey tool allows staff to create inclusive online surveys on matters that are important to your school community, gather anonymous feedback and turn the results into positive actions.

Create surveys

Use one of our pre-built survey templates or create your own. Choose how you want respondents to answer and if you need your survey translated into any additional languages.

Customise and share

Choose to customise your survey with school branding and colours. Once complete, share your secure link publicly or privately so you can collect responses and honest feedback.

Analyse results

Results will be displayed in easy-to-understand graphs, and free-text responses will be sorted based on sentiment. This means you can start making positive changes right away.

How is Survey Builder different?

What sets Survey Builder aside from other online survey tools is its backing by experts, the simple survey building process, built-in human translations and focus on improving school culture.

Flexible questions

Your survey forms can include multiple question types such as multiple choice, multi-select, sliding scales or free text so you can get the exact feedback you need.

Add sections

Gathering feedback on different areas? Separate your survey into dedicated sections to group questions by theme, making your survey easier to navigate.

Customise your survey

Style your online surveys with a background image, logo and patterns to match your school’s brand so stakeholders are greeted with a familiar interface.

Make it secure

Choose to make your survey public, or publish your survey with expiry dates, passcodes and private URLs for complete privacy, easy sharing and peace of mind.

Works on all devices

Our surveys are web-based, meaning they can be answered on smartphones, tablets and computers with just a basic internet connection.

Analyse results quickly

All survey results are neatly and intuitively displayed on your dashboard. Organised by questions, you can easily filter and analyse responses, all in one place.

Compare results

Export directly to Excel and view collated results or by individual responses. This is useful when you want to dive deeper using the power of Microsoft’s Excel.

Republish or clone

Save time by quickly reusing a survey and comparing historic results with new results. You can also clone a survey so you don’t have to start from scratch.

View sentiment

Get detailed sentiment analysis of free text responses. See what themes and topics are common and whether responses around them are positive or negative.

Why are school surveys important?

Give your community a voice

Making sure everyone in your school has a voice promotes a strong sense of community. Improving your relationships with everyone from students, to staff, to parents can be as simple as making sure they feel heard.

Collect honest feedback

Anonymous surveying is a fantastic way to receive feedback that’s truly honest. Without the pressure of judgement, respondents feel more comfortable to bring up real issues, allowing you to make real change.

Track and understand trends

Send out the same survey more than once, or adjust your approach over time to see community sentiment trends. Survey Builder helps you not just to view these trends, but to understand and address them.

Build a bank of perspectives

The members of your school community are a fantastic resource. Surveying allows you to collect a range of different perspectives from a range of different groups, leading to informed decision making.

Making real change

Survey results are an excellent motivator for implementing real change, backed by data. Get inspired to improve your school, all while confident that you’re targeting areas that will make a difference.

Frequently asked questions

Survey Builder is offered at a transparent, flat fee. Request a quote and demo here in just a few quick and easy steps.

Yes, Survey Builder was created so that teachers and senior leadership teams can effectively gather group sentiment data in school communities.

Not at all! Survey Builder has the option to make your online survey accessible through a public link, meaning that your participants can respond without creating an account.

Not only are your surveys stored in your account for future reuse, you’ll be able to compare results from the different times they were sent out.

Survey Builder uses real human translation experts to translate your surveys. The charge for this service is calculated on a case-by-case basis, based on the length of your survey and the number of languages you require.

You’ll automatically be sent an email to let you know that your survey has been translated. Once you’ve received this email, log on to your Satchel Pulse account to see that a dropdown option for changing language has been added to your survey.

Survey Builder’s detailed sentiment analysis of free text responses is powered by AI. The AI reads and organises the responses based on sentiment (positive, negative, mixed or neutral). You will then be able to filter by sentiment, or by a series of topics generated by frequent phrase use, for deeper insights.

Our surveys work on smartphones, tablets and computers with just a basic internet connection, making it easy for everyone to provide feedback.

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