Research Resources

Surveys

General Survey Information

Institutional Research (IR) has a Survey Resources page that includes best practices and sample text for surveys.

Technology at MSU provides guidelines for using Qualtrics as a research data collection tool.

Surveys that Include MSU participants

Surveys that include the greater MSU community now require consideration and approval by Institutional Research.

Please consult this flow chart for more information to determine if your survey needs to go through the IR review process.

For further questions about this process, please see the IR Survey FAQ page.

To submit a survey for review, please use the IR Survey Approval Request Form.

Note: The IR Survey approval process is separate from IRB approval.

Software/IT Services and Hardware

Software and hardware purchased with personal funds CANNOT be reimbursed.

Software purchases must adhere to the MSU Information Technology (IT) Risk Assessment policies.

All software and IT services, even if they are free, must go through the IT Readiness process. The first stage of this is to determine the tier of the software or service, University Procurement and Logistics maintains a list of software/services and tiers. Tier 1 software/services do not require an IT Readiness form. Tier 2 and 3 software/services do require an IT Readiness form. Tier 1 and 2 software/services can be purchased via PCard, Tier 3 software/services must be purchased via purchase order/requisition form. We also encourage you to check the MSU Tech Store, as some Tier 1 software is available there.  

A requisition must be submitted with the completed form prior to download of free software/services. In the Notes and Attachments section of the requisition, please note that the software/service is free.