Describe your institution, audiences, and goals. Makeform creates a campus climate survey with consistent scales, optional demographics, open comments, and paths for students, faculty, and staff.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your campus, or send it to the builder. Revise every example before publishing.
Audience
Students, faculty, and staff across one institution
Format
Anonymous survey with audience branching
Prompt size
304 chars
Example survey structure
Anonymous survey with audience branching
What is your primary campus role?
I feel that I belong at this institution
How safe do you feel in campus spaces?
Do you know where to report a concern?
What one change would improve campus climate?
Suggested analysis tags
Belonging
Safety
Access and support
Use the same agreement scale for related items and include Prefer not to answer on sensitive demographic questions.
Step 1
Define
audiences, topics, and decision goals
Step 2
Build
neutral items, scales, and branching
Step 3
Invite
accessible link and clear privacy note
Step 4
Act
review themes and share next steps
A clearer climate baseline
Separate belonging, inclusion, safety, access, and confidence in institutional response to reveal where follow-up is needed.
Branch students, faculty, and staff while keeping shared climate measures.
Match response options so results can be compared across topics, groups, and cycles.
Avoid identifiers, keep sensitive demographics optional, and explain response handling.
Built around campus experience
Connect climate to settings, interactions, resources, and reporting processes campus teams can examine.
Measure respect, voice in decisions, comfort contributing, and institutional connection.
Compare daytime, evening, physical, interpersonal, and online experiences without asking respondents to recount incidents.
Ask whether learning, work, events, facilities, and support services are accessible and welcoming.
Assess awareness of reporting routes, confidence concerns will be handled, and barriers that may stop someone seeking help.
Survey workflow
Give the builder your audiences and priorities, then refine the survey with campus stakeholders.
State what leaders need to learn, who should respond, and whether this is a baseline or pulse.
Remove double questions, define the timeframe, keep scales consistent, and add Not applicable where needed.
Show relevant student and employee items while preserving shared questions for comparison.
Share an accessible link with the purpose, response window, privacy explanation, and survey contact.
Choose the right approach
Use a shared core, relevant branches, and careful handling of sensitive questions.
Field guide
Build each section around one construct, use clear timeframes, and collect only background details needed for planned analysis.
Belonging
Ask whether respondents feel valued and can participate fully. Separate academic, workplace, and social settings when experiences may differ.
Inclusion
Measure respectful treatment by peers, instructors, colleagues, and supervisors. Use neutral statements that do not assume an experience occurred.
Safety
Compare locations and times, then ask whether people can speak up or seek help. Include Not applicable for unfamiliar spaces.
Access
Ask about facilities, digital tools, events, instruction, work practices, and support. Add an optional comment about the main barrier.
Reporting and support
Separate awareness of reporting channels from confidence in the response. Ask why people might not seek support.
Background
Use broad categories tied to the analysis plan. Keep sensitive questions optional and avoid combinations that reveal people in small groups.
Related tools
Use focused tools when a climate finding points to a specific audience, service, or experience that needs deeper questions.
Collect focused feedback about inclusion, participation, and respectful experiences.
Open toolInvite comments without adding a name or contact field to the form.
Open toolExplore faculty workplace conditions and institutional support in more detail.
Open toolAsk graduate students about academic, advising, and campus experiences.
Open toolEvaluate access, spaces, collections, and service experiences at the library.
Open toolFollow up on staff connection, voice, recognition, and workplace experience.
Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for institutional research, student affairs, human resources, and campus leadership teams.
It gathers perceptions of belonging, inclusion, respect, safety, accessibility, support, and institutional response. Use a common core with branched questions for students, faculty, and staff.
Measure belonging, voice, respectful interactions, safety, access, support awareness, reporting confidence, and improvement priorities. Keep each item focused on one idea and define the timeframe.
Yes. Avoid names, email addresses, IDs, and unnecessary identifiers. Explain what is collected, keep sensitive demographics optional, and check whether background-field combinations could identify someone.
Ask campus role and use conditional logic for relevant sections. Keep shared belonging, inclusion, safety, and support items for comparison, then show audience-specific questions.
Use a clearly labeled five-point agreement or frequency scale. Keep direction consistent and provide Not applicable when respondents may lack relevant experience.
Ask only for categories needed for analysis, explain why, make them optional, and include Prefer not to answer. Combine or suppress small groups when presenting results.
Yes. Makeform supports unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect responses without a usage cap. A paid tier is available only to remove the Makeform badge.
Review patterns and comment themes, note participation limits, and share what was heard. Assign owners and timelines to actions, then use a later pulse to track change.
Turn campus experience into focused questions.
