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fatalaijon edited this page Aug 17, 2024 · 6 revisions

KU Polls Vision Statement

Why Care About a Vision Statement?

"If you don't know where you want to go,
then any road will take you there."

A Vision should unify everyone's understanding of the purpose of the project and what the intended outcome is.
A Vision answers the questions

  • what will this application do?
  • who is affected and how will they benefit?
  • why is this project worth doing?

Background

KU staff and students often want to conduct polls or surveys within KU or a community inside of KU. These polls or surveys provide input for making decisions, planning events, and learning others' preferences and ideas.

The most common poll/survey questions are multiple choice, where the poll taker selects a choice from a list of choices.

There are applications for this on the Internet, such as Google Forms and SurveyMonkey, but they all have limitations or unwanted features.
Google Forms is clumsy and has no automatic way to set a start and end date.

SurveyMonkey has limits on free forms, including limits on the number of survey items and number of responses.

Vision

For the KU community who want to conduct surveys and polls within the community, our product is an easy to use web application that allows people to create or participate in polls and surveys, and view or modify one's choice any time during the polling period.

Main Features

  1. An authorized person can create poll or survey questions with multiple choices and a specified start and stop date (the polling period). These date are optional; if not specified then a poll remains open indefinitely.
  2. Users can submit a response during the polling period.
  3. The web interface shows all poll questions that have no starting date or the starting date has already occurred.
  4. A question is not visible to web visiters before the starting date (if it has one).
  5. A user can revisit a poll page to view his/her response, and can change it during the polling period.
  6. No responses or changes to response are allowed after a poll's end date.
  7. Anyone can view the results of a poll question at any time after the starting date.
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