Describe your program and participants. Makeform turns the brief into a focused pre program survey with baseline measures, goals, expectations, participation needs, and questions you can revisit later.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Adults beginning a job-readiness program
Format
Baseline survey with confidence matrix and goals
Prompt size
284 chars
Example survey structure
Baseline survey with confidence matrix and goals
Which job-search tasks have you done before?
How confident are you with each core skill?
What is your main goal for this program?
What could make attendance difficult?
What support would help you participate?
Suggested routing tags
Needs follow-up
Access request
Ready to start
Use the same scale wording before and after the program. Stable measures make the change easier to interpret.
Step 1
Define
outcomes, audience, and baseline measures
Step 2
Send
one clear survey before the first session
Step 3
Review
group needs and flag individual follow-ups
Step 4
Adapt
examples, support, and pacing before launch
Why survey before launch
Registration tells you who is coming. A pre program survey reveals starting points, expectations, and participation barriers.
Record knowledge, behavior, or confidence with scales you can repeat after the program.
Open questions surface hoped-for outcomes and concerns that a fixed curriculum outline may miss.
Use responses to flag schedule conflicts, access requests, language preferences, or questions that need a private coordinator follow-up.
Built for varied programs
Keep the baseline focused on the decisions your team can make before the program starts.
Measure starting confidence, experience, learning goals, and preferred ways to practice.
Capture referral source, immediate needs, participation barriers, and expected support.
Collect development priorities, communication preferences, boundaries, and relationship expectations.
Ask about topic priorities and experience, then branch to relevant follow-up questions.
Survey workflow
Build around program decisions, send early enough to respond, and review patterns before the first session.
Describe what coordinators may change: pacing, examples, groups, support, communication, or logistics.
Remove anything that will not inform action, label both ends of every scale, and make identity questions optional when names are unnecessary.
Share the link after registration. Explain how responses shape preparation, the deadline, and who can answer questions.
Summarize group-level starting points, then separately route individual access needs or requested follow-ups to the right coordinator.
Survey vs registration vs feedback
A pre program survey belongs between enrollment and the first session, adding preparation insight without lengthening registration.
Field guide
Build each section around information that can shape facilitation, support, or later evaluation.
Participant context
Ask about role, cohort, or experience only when it changes the program. Avoid repeating registration fields.
Baseline measures
Choose a few knowledge, confidence, or behavior measures tied to outcomes. Preserve wording and scales for comparison.
Goals & expectations
Pair a sortable goal list with one open response. Ask what participants hope to do or learn.
Prior experience
Ask about relevant tasks, tools, or previous instruction. Show advanced follow-ups only to experienced participants.
Participation needs
Invite schedule, language, access, technology, or communication needs. Explain who reviews answers and offer a direct contact route.
Open questions
End with one invitation for concerns, questions, or context that fixed choices may miss.
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Open toolFAQ
Answers for coordinators preparing a participant baseline.
A pre program survey records participant starting points, goals, expectations, experience, and needs before a program begins so coordinators can prepare and create measures to revisit later.
Send it after participation is confirmed but early enough to respond to what you learn. State a deadline before facilitators finalize plans, and send one brief reminder to people who have not completed it.
Keep it as short as the decisions require. Combine quick scales with one or two open responses, and remove repeated registration questions or anything the team will not review.
Start with the intended program outcomes. For each outcome, choose a relevant knowledge, confidence, experience, or behavior question. Use clear time frames and response scales, then preserve the same wording if you plan to ask it again.
Yes. Branching can show beginner follow-ups to new participants, advanced questions to experienced participants, or a private follow-up field when someone asks the coordinator to contact them.
Choose based on the purpose. Anonymous responses may support candid group-level feedback; identified responses let coordinators follow up on individual needs. Explain the choice clearly and avoid collecting names when they are not needed.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Summarize patterns in experience, confidence, goals, and priorities. Adjust examples, pacing, groups, or communication, and route individual access requests separately.
Know the starting point.
