Survey123 for ArcGIS Tutorial

Introduction/Background
The purpose of this activity was to go through the Survey 123 for ArcGIS tutorial to learn how to create a survey, map and analyze the collected data, and share the survey data by creating an app for users' smartphones or tablets.

There were 4 "lessons" within the tutorial:
1. Create a survey
2. Complete and submit the survey
3. Analyze survey data
4. Share the survey data

The survey app was explored thoroughly throughout the tutorial.  Screenshots were taken throughout the tutorial on both the desktop and the smartphone to document the entire process.  This is the link to the tutorial on the ArcGIS website: https://learn.arcgis.com/en/gallery/


Steps
1: Creation of a survey
A survey was created to help the homeowner association (HOA) assess their community members' disaster preparedness for earthquakes and home fires.  Figure 1 shows the first step in creating the survey: adding the name, tags, and summary.

Figure 1: Creation of the survey. 

Next, questions about the participant and their residence were entered into the survey using the design tab.  This is shown in Figures 2-4 show these steps.

Figure 2: The survey completion date was the first question added.  

Figure 3: Rules were set for some questions when specification was necessary.  

Figure 4: This screenshot shows the final questions entered.  There were 29 questions total.  

The survey was then published.  This enabled me to preview the survey to double-check that everything was entered correctly and navigate it how a smartphone or a tablet would view it (Figure 5).

Figure 5: This shows the preview of the survey in smartphone mode.  

2: Complete and submit the survey
Now that the survey was published the settings can be altered to decide who to share it with.  The survey was then opened in a web browser to test it out.  Figure 6 shows the completion of the survey as a test.

Figure 6: This notification showed that the survey was completed as a test.  

The Survey123 for ArcGIS app was then installed onto my smartphone, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7: This screenshot from my Android smartphone shows the Survey123 for ArcGIS app in the Google Store.  

Once the app was opened and I signed in using the UWEC enterprise account, the survey was downloaded to the phone in "My Surveys", as seen in Figures 8 and 9.

Figure 8: The surveys available for download are shown here.  

Figure 9: The survey is downloaded into My Surveys.

The survey was then completed to test it out using the app on a smartphone this time.  The survey was then completed several more times to collect enough data to be analyzed.  Figure 10 shows each survey that was completed.  The information in each survey was fake but varied just for the purpose of testing out the app and having enough data to be analyzed.

Figure 10: Each survey completed on this smartphone is listed here.  

3: Analyze survey data
The Survey123 website was then visited and its reporting capabilities were explored.  It gave detailed reports that could be analyzed in several ways.  The data collected from each survey is compiled here, and the interactive reports were also explored.  Figure 11 shows one of the tabs that shows statistics from the data collected in the survey and Figure 12 shows a map with the data.

Figure 11: This screenshot shows the overview statistics from the survey data.  

Figure 12: This screenshot shows the map from the Survey123 for ArcGIS website that displays various results from the survey.  

4: Share your survey data
The final step in the tutorial was to create a customized map with only specific fields included, as seen in Figure 13. Once the map was saved, a web app was created using the share button on the interactive map.  The interactive map was then finished and available for users.

Figure 13: This shows the final web app created throughout the tutorial. 

The map shows three different locations in which I determined where my residence was located.  Because almost all of the information used when taking the survey several times was false/fake, the patterns are random as far as the results in each field.  However this map is especially helpful because it is interactive.  Users can navigate through the map, between location points, and they can observe the results from each individual survey if they want to. 

Conclusion 
Survey123 for ArcGIS could be quite useful in future research, projects, or field work.  It has a relatively simple interface which allows for easy creation of surveys that can be mapped.  It is also nice that it has an app that can be used on smartphones and tablets.  Users can complete the survey and include their location, and the resulting data can be analyzed using the website. 

ArcGIS website citation:
“Lesson Gallery.” Lesson Gallery | Learn ArcGIS, learn.arcgis.com/en/gallery/.