We streamlined SurveyMonkey’s Home so it’s quick and simple to Start a survey. It streamlines the way you create and publish your surveys.
Create your survey by choosing your start method:
| Start method | Description |
| Start from an idea | Let Build with AI and Import with AI create a draft survey. Type your survey goal or copy and paste your survey content to generate a survey draft. Be sure to exclude sensitive information in your prompt. Choose to use the drafted survey and edit it, or return to edit the prompt to re-generate a new draft. |
| Start from a template | Choose from 500+ expert-built templates and proven frameworks, tailored to different roles and industries. Explore our templates by browsing or filtering templates by Plan type or Category. If you're on a team, you can also browse your team survey templates. Click on any template to learn more about it and preview its questions. Then click Create survey. |
| Start from scratch | If you want to build a survey on your own. with full functionality of the Design survey tab. Add your questions or other content, then head to Style to update your settings and theme. |
Once you like your survey draft, cycle through the different device modes to check that your survey displays great, on any device.
No matter how you started and created your survey, you get to edit and finalize your survey using either:
If you completed Your Profile, SurveyMonkey offers suggestions that match your use case and help quickly draft survey.
For more on each start option, expand the options below.
Select Create survey from the SurveyMonkey header on any screen to choose a survey creation starting point.
Expand section for more info:
Depending on how you created your survey, you customize your survey design in either our:
The Build tab in the Design Survey section lets you add or edit questions, page elements, and survey options directly in your survey preview. You can select from pre-written, Question Bank questions or apply additional question settings to further customize your respondent’s experience.
Select Logic if you want to apply logic to the survey. Logic can help you get better data by creating a more personalized survey experience for respondents.
For example, use question skip logic to control which questions respondents see next based on their answer to a previous question. Or, you can use advanced branching for the most powerful logic customizations.
Select Style to fine-tune the look and feel of your survey using our Style and branding settings and Themes.
Select Preview survey to test how the survey respondent experience is, so you can catch any errors or logic issues.
We offer various ways you can work with other people on survey design, publishing, and analysis.
When creating your survey, we recommend these tips: