Describe the campus experiences you want to understand. Makeform creates a student life survey with rating scales, context questions, and open feedback about belonging, services, facilities, and activities.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your institution, or edit it in the Makeform builder.
Audience
Undergraduate and graduate students
Format
Short anonymous survey with five-point scales
Prompt size
322 chars
Example survey structure
Short anonymous survey with five-point scales
How satisfied are you with campus life overall?
How strongly do you feel you belong here?
Rate campus services and facilities
Which improvement would matter most?
What should we understand?
Suggested analysis tags
Belonging
Campus services
Facilities
Use consistent scales for comparable topics, then let students explain what a score missed.
Step 1
Define
choose the decisions this survey should inform
Step 2
Build
generate clear scales and focused follow-ups
Step 3
Invite
share one accessible link with students
Step 4
Act
group themes and communicate next steps
Better campus listening
A useful survey separates belonging, service access, facilities, and participation. Students can pinpoint an experience, while administrators get responses that map to teams and practical follow-up.
Pair scales with optional comments and low-score follow-ups for useful context.
Use consistent labels and separate not applicable choices from neutral ratings.
Group questions by campus topic so each team can review its feedback.
Survey moments
Start with the moment closest to your decision cycle, then edit the audience, timeframe, topics, and follow-up logic in the builder.
Track overall satisfaction, belonging, service access, and the one improvement students value most.
Focus on housing conditions, shared spaces, staff support, maintenance, safety perception, and community.
Check connection, navigation, resource awareness, help-seeking confidence, and early barriers.
Understand travel, service hours, event timing, physical spaces, and barriers to joining campus life.
Survey workflow
Give Makeform the audience, decision, topics, and timeframe. Then refine the generated student life survey before sending it to students.
Name who should respond, what period they should consider, and what campus leaders need to decide after reading the results.
Remove questions nobody owns, keep scale labels consistent, add not applicable where needed, and show targeted follow-ups only when relevant.
Publish one link and explain the survey purpose, expected completion time, response deadline, and whether identifying details are collected.
Compare question distributions, group open comments by topic, identify priorities, and tell students what the institution will examine next.
Choosing an approach
Choose a quick signal, fixed template, or survey aligned to a campus decision.
Field guide
Build each section around a distinct experience students can judge. Six focused blocks produce clearer feedback than one long matrix that mixes unrelated campus services.
Belonging & connection
Measure welcome, belonging, peer connection, and confidence finding community during a named term.
Support & access
Ask whether students know about a service, tried it, and could receive help easily.
Facilities & essentials
Separate study, dining, housing, transport, internet, recreation, and accessibility ratings.
Activities & participation
Ask what students want to join and what timing, cost, travel, or awareness barriers prevent it.
Context & segmentation
Broad study, residence, and year categories can reveal differences without unnecessary detail.
Priorities & open voice
Combine one sortable improvement priority with an optional comment for overlooked details.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for student affairs, institutional research, housing, and campus service teams.
It gathers student views about belonging, campus services, facilities, activities, and overall experience so administrators can identify themes and priorities.
Cover satisfaction, belonging, services, facilities, participation, and support access. Add not applicable choices, one priority question, and optional open feedback.
Keep only questions tied to a decision. Test the survey on a phone and remove repeated, double-barreled, or unowned questions.
Yes. Avoid required names, emails, student IDs, and exact room numbers. Explain what is collected and make any follow-up contact field optional.
A labeled five-point scale works well for satisfaction or agreement. Keep labels consistent and offer not applicable separately from the midpoint.
Use neutral wording, ask one idea at a time, balance response choices, name a timeframe, and pilot questions with a varied student group.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for creating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Review response distributions, group comments by topic, assign priorities to owners, and share next steps with students to close the feedback loop.
Make campus feedback easier to answer and act on.
