Survey Preparation Timeline

Submit Information Sharing Agreement (ISA)

Assign Campus Survey Administrator (CSA)

July 19:  Submit ISA

July 19:  Assign CSA

Register for online preparation workshop #1

Assemble survey steering team at your institution

Become familiar with Survey deliverables

Work on assessment plan

August 16:  Register for online preparation workshop #1

Tuesday, August 20 at 2:00-3:30 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #1 (option 1)

Monday, August 26 at 1:00-2:30 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #1 (option 2)

Prepare Institutional Review Board documentation (approval dates subject to local IRB timetable)

Decide which survey items to select

Decide on survey customizations

Determine which campus populations to survey

Provide information for campus messages

Register for online preparation workshop #2

September 20:  Submit information for invitation and reminder messages

September 20:  Submit your application for IRB approval or exemption

September 27:  Register for online workshop #2

Complete Decision Spreadsheet (DS)

Complete Local Question Spreadsheet (LQS)

Monday, October 7 at 2:00-3:00 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #2 (option 1)

Thursday, October 10 at 2:00-3:00 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #2 (option 2)

October 18:  Submit DS and LQS

October 18:  Inform MISO whether to survey special campus populations

October 18:  Inform MISO whether to adopt split sample technique

Finish obtaining IRB approval or exemption

Review and approve survey instruments and messages

Register for online preparation workshop #3

November 15:  Submit documentation of IRB approval or exemption

November 22:  Register for online preparation workshop #3

Spam preparations

Finish final review of survey instruments at the direction of the MISO Survey Operations Manager

Thursday, December 5th at 1:00-2:30 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #3 (option 1)

Tuesday, December 10th at 2:00-3:30 PM:  Online preparation workshop #3 (option 2)

December 13:  Complete spam preparations 

December 13:  Inform MISO if your  institution has a DKIM record in place for their own instance of Qualtrics

Email list preparation

Final preparations for Survey, full dress rehearsal, and finalizing Campus Announcement message from CIO/Librarian

Survey launch (fourth week of Spring semester)

Questions from survey respondents

Survey close (sixth week of Spring semester)

First Friday of Spring semester: Submit e-mail lists to MISO

Starting the First week of Spring semester: Complete full dress rehearsal

Fourth week of Spring semester: Send Campus Announcement message from CIO/Librarian.  Inform your IT & Library support desks with information about the survey launch so they can answer any inquiries received.

Review local results delivered to you through Box.com

Closely examine full MISO Survey Results

Analyze and interpret Survey results; share with campus community

Provide feedback about Survey

Late April or early May:  Register for online preparation workshop #4

Thursday, April 24th at 2:00-3:30 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #4 (option 1)

Monday, April 28th at 3:00-4:30 PM (Eastern):  Online preparation workshop #4 (option 2)