Ed Summit: Survey123 Design Challenge session
The closer Ed Summit gets, the more excited I am for my session ArcGIS Survey123 Design Challenge. This session is going to focus on designing surveys in ArcGIS Survey123 web designer to guarantee you get clean, well-formatted data that you can use to do analysis and solve your question. But we aren't going to just tell you the answers – we're going to see who can come up with a great solution.
And right now, I want your favorite tips so I can make the session pull from more than just my tricks.
A warm-up example
You are collecting data about what year people moved to their homes. How would you design that question?
One solution is to use a date question. Refining that solution, it could be a date question, showing year only, and perhaps even including constraints to limit the date range.
A little more involved of an example
Your students are collecting pictures of trash around campus. How would you design that question?
Here you'd use an image question. Since detailed photos aren't needed, bonus points if you include in your answer restricting the file size.
And we'll even take it farther, like in this example
Your students are collecting water samples, and you have divided the river into sections. You want them to report what section of the river their sample was collected in. How would you design that question?
Potential solutions include choice lists, or even using their location to pull the zone, stored in another layer, into the survey. (Curious how?)
Share your best trick for data design in Survey123
Do you have a trick or two up your sleeve for getting the best data out of Survey123? Share it with me! I'm looking for clear and creative examples of great data design to help attendees get the most out of this session.
Getting your best data in Survey123
If you are coming to Ed Summit, come explore using ArcGIS Survey123 to get your best data. If you aren't coming to Ed Summit, consider changing that! You know educators can attend for free, right?