Why Domandata

Our Case, In Our Words

Why Domandata Works for Teaching Research Methods

We make Domandata, so this is our case, not an impartial review. Methods courses that teach real survey design need students to randomize, route, field, and analyze, without each student buying software and without classmates seeing each other's work. We built Classrooms for that.

What a Domandata Classroom gives a course

Full features for every student

Students get Flow, Deploy, Export, Library, and Panels on their course surveys, even on a free personal account. The instructor pays per seat, at $3 per seat per month for the length of the semester.

What is a Classroom?
Students' work stays private

Each student's surveys are private to that student and the instructor unless the student shares them, so graded work stays individual.

Classroom privacy
The instructor sees everything

Instructors can open every survey in the classroom at any time, without asking students to share links.

Instructor visibility
Canvas assignments and grades

Connect a Canvas course through LTI 1.3. Students open the assignment in Canvas, start from your starter survey, submit or resubmit, and grades sync back.

Connect Canvas
A clean end to the semester

When the semester ends, the classroom archives itself. Students lose access and the instructor keeps everything.

Semester end and archiving
Teach the methods, not the workarounds

Random assignment, quotas, and exports that keep the assigned condition let students analyze exactly what they designed, in R, Stata, or SPSS.

Survey experiments guide

When another tool is the better choice

We would rather lose a signup than have a study run on the wrong platform.

  • Students only need to write questions and collect a few responses.

    The Google or Microsoft forms tool your university already provides is enough, and costs nothing extra. Survey software for teaching

  • Your course runs on Moodle, Blackboard, or another LMS.

    Canvas is the only LMS we connect to today. Students can still submit inside Domandata, but grades won't sync to another LMS. Canvas connection

  • The course teaches timed cognitive experiments.

    Inquisit EDU, Gorilla, or PsychoPy suit reaction-time paradigms better than a survey platform. Choosing experiment software

  • Students will collect health information.

    We don't sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements. Use your institution's approved tool, often REDCap. Qualtrics vs REDCap

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this page an objective review?

No. It is our argument for our own product, written by the people who build it. For guides that compare tools and point to alternatives where they fit better, see the Research Guides, which cite each vendor's own documentation.

Do students need to pay for Domandata?

No. The instructor buys classroom seats, and every student on the roster gets full features on surveys inside the classroom, even with a free personal account.

What happens to student surveys after the semester?

The classroom archives itself when the semester ends. Students lose access to the classroom, and the instructor keeps every survey and dataset.

Do class survey projects need IRB review?

It depends on your institution and whether results will be published or presented. Domandata doesn't decide this; ask your IRB before students collect data.

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