{ Using Qualtrics for Student applications Irene Knokh, MA, M.Ed, Center for Professional Development and Education University of Michigan Hospital
Jan 15, 2015
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Using Qualtrics for Student applications
Irene Knokh, MA, M.Ed, Center for Professional Development and Education
University of Michigan Hospital
Program BackgroundBrief Program Description
Program Team members
Program Stakeholders
Program website
Challenges
Student applications: 2009-2011
Sheer increase in applications
All information was received by email
Incomplete application contents in different places
Need to streamline the tracking of all information (name, email, school)
Applications: Challenges
Inefficient manual data entry (schools, names, emails, degrees, grad dates)
Ineligible students applied anyway
The team was manually “weeding out” completely ineligible students
Faculty references didn’t like Word forms
Faculty were sending information by fax
Applications: Challenges
Student applications: 2009-2011
109
Student Nurse Extern Program Website
Program websiteFrequently updated for
students’ reference
Student Nurse Extern Website
Links to the student and faculty forms
were included on the site in 2010 Clearly defined
requirements before starting the
application
Why Qualtrics?
User friendly application design and collaboration
set up
User friendly form for faculty and students
Easy to track applicants and faculty
Excellent customer service support from Qualtrics-
weekly sessions to test everything
Big picture (students and faculty)
Applicants: Michigan Schools
Top Schools:
1. University of Michigan2. Eastern Michigan3. Michigan State
Out of State Applications
Mostly single digits from Out of State
Schools
Program Finalists-2011
Total=30
Qualtrics Extern Application-what went
wellStreamlined applications process
Easy online survey form to complete for faculty
and students
No missing responses from students
Students and faculty received auto
confirmations of submissions
Clearly ineligible students were “weeded out”
Qualtrics Extern Application-what went
wellChanges: Qualtrics Application forms 2010
Faculty quickly complete the form 3-5 minutes
max)
Collaborative access to the application for
viewing, downloading and printing
Easy to find students/faculty by name, email,
faculty’s name
Survey-user’s view
Survey-designer’s view
Using Qualtrics for other program needs
Qualtrics: Program use overview-demo
Student Checklist as a confirmation of submission:
Did you do the following:Check that both of your faculty letters are submitted
Faculty form link on the checklist
What’s new next year: lessons learned
Combine the essay and the professional
statement
Offer a file upload option for the resume as well
as the transcript
Ask Qualtrics whether a RTF (Rich Text Format)
option is available for pasting formatted text
What’s new next year: lessons learned
Thank you!What about you?How do you think you will use Qualtrics?