Describe your session, participants, and goals. Makeform drafts a focused survey with rating scales, knowledge checks, open feedback, and follow-up questions.
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Sample prompts for the survey builder
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Audience
Employees completing a facilitator-led online workshop
Format
Five-minute survey with ratings and comments
Prompt size
249 chars
Example survey structure
Five-minute survey with ratings and comments
How clear were the learning objectives?
How relevant were the examples and exercises?
Confidence before and after training
What was your most useful takeaway?
Which follow-up resource would help?
Suggested routing tags
Ready to apply
Needs follow-up
Technical issue
Ask separately about the facilitator, content, platform, and confidence to apply the skill. One overall satisfaction score cannot show what needs fixing.
Step 1
Define
session goals and participant context
Step 2
Generate
ratings, checks, and open questions
Step 3
Share
send the survey after the session
Step 4
Improve
sort themes and plan follow-up
Feedback you can act on
Separate learning value from facilitation and technology, then ask what participants need next.
Use separate scales for relevance, facilitation, platform quality, and confidence.
After low confidence, show a comment question about the barrier.
Ask for unresolved questions, resources, and support preferences.
Designed around online learning
Match questions to live workshops, demonstrations, learning series, or self-paced courses.
Evaluate clarity, pacing, interaction, practice, and question time.
Measure task confidence, screen visibility, practice time, and difficult workflows.
Identify the module, repeat pulse questions, and capture one next action.
Review navigation, materials, effort, knowledge, and reinforcement preferences.
Build your survey
Provide enough context to match questions to your learning objectives.
Name the topic, format, audience, goals, activities, and decisions.
Remove questions you cannot act on and use consistent scales.
Show support or technical questions only when relevant.
Send promptly, group comments, and compare sessions or modules.
Choose the right approach
Connect participant experience to decisions about content, facilitation, delivery, or reinforcement.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical question plan, then tailor the wording and scales to the decisions your training team can actually make.
Session context
Capture only the context needed to interpret results, such as the session, module, role group, or experience band.
Content value
Separate clarity and relevance scales to reveal whether topics, examples, structure, or detail should change.
Facilitation
Ask about explanations, pace, practice, questions, and discussion instead of one broad presenter rating.
Virtual delivery
Ask which access or platform issue occurred and how much it affected participation.
Learning evidence
Pair perceived confidence with a short scenario or knowledge check aligned to a taught objective.
Action and follow-up
Ask for one action, one unanswered question, a support format, and optional contact permission.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for trainers planning useful participant feedback after an online session.
It is a questionnaire for online learning participants. It can measure relevance, facilitation, platform experience, confidence, understanding, and follow-up needs so trainers can plan specific improvements.
Ask about objective clarity, relevance, examples, pace, practice, platform access, confidence, and remaining questions. Add a knowledge check when appropriate, plus the most useful takeaway and desired support.
A focused survey may take about five minutes, combining concise scales with a few open questions. Remove items that cannot influence content, facilitation, delivery, or follow-up. Use module pulses for longer programs.
Anonymous responses may support candor; identified responses enable individual help. Explain how feedback will be used. You can keep identity optional and ask separately for follow-up permission.
Combine confidence before and after with a short scenario or knowledge check aligned to an objective. Later, ask what participants could apply after using the skill at work.
Ask whether an issue occurred, then conditionally show categories such as joining, audio, video, screen sharing, captions, navigation, or materials. Also ask how much it affected participation.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect responses without an invented free-response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Add a session, cohort, facilitator, or module dropdown and keep stable comparison questions. Use conditional sections for topic-specific checks, and remove outdated options before sharing.
Turn participant feedback into the next training improvement.
