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Engage Survey Platform

The trusted DIY, cloud-based survey solution built for K-12 school districts that helps you create impactful surveys, gather community input, and drive meaningful change.
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Give your students, families, staff, and community members a voice while collecting actionable insights to drive positive change.

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Create a smarter survey

Say goodbye to survey exhaustion and hello to survey results you can actually use. Build, administer, and analyze school surveys with Engage to build trust, encourage collaborative decision-making, and improve the school environment.

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Discover actionable data

Easily segment, filter, and disaggregate data with our analytic tools and dynamic reports to gather greater insights. You can also view current and longitudinal data to guide the development of action plans to improve student success.

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Empower every stakeholder

Build your school surveys from more than 50 pre-built, customizable survey templates that can be translated into more than 38 languages — ensuring every stakeholder in your community has the opportunity to be heard.

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Engage makes it easy to collect feedback on critical issues related to engagement, school and district quality, equity, safety, and more — while reaching every stakeholder through email, text message, social media, and other channels.

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Stefanie Pleiss | Research and Evaluation Manager | Denver Public Schools (Colorado)

“We use Engage throughout the year to check the pulse on our community’s needs. The customizable surveys have helped us understand trending issues and create data-driven action plans to help our district thrive.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an engagement survey?

An engagement survey is a tool used by school districts to measure and assess the level of engagement, satisfaction, and overall sentiment of their stakeholders (i.e., parents/guardians, students, and/or staff members), and it is customized based on the respondent group. 

  1. Parent/Guardian/Family engagement surveys usually ask questions about parent perceptions of the overall school climate, school environment, communication, interactions with teachers/staff/school leadership, as well as ask questions about their child(ren)’s level of engagement, satisfaction, and involvement in their academic experiences and campus life. The results of this survey help school and district leaders understand parent satisfaction and ways to improve parent engagement/involvement and satisfaction, as well as students’ needs, identify areas for improvement, and create strategies to enhance the overall educational experience for students.
  2. Student engagement surveys are a tool used by school districts to assess the level of engagement, satisfaction, and involvement of students in their academic experiences and campus life. This survey usually consists of questions that cover various aspects of the student experience, such as the quality of teaching, availability of resources, extracurricular activities, and overall campus environment. The results of this survey help school and district leaders understand students’ needs, identify areas for improvement, and create strategies to enhance the overall educational experience for students.
  3. Staff member engagement surveys typically consist of a series of questions designed to gauge employees’ feelings about their work, workplace, colleagues, and management. The results of the survey help district and school leadership identify areas of improvement and develop strategies to enhance employee engagement, productivity, and morale.
What are good engagement survey questions?

Good engagement survey questions are ones that effectively measure the survey takers perceptions. Engagement surveys ask questions that provide actionable data. 

  1. Questions should be clear, concise, and unbiased, allowing participants to provide honest feedback. 
  2. Be intentional about what you are asking and ask questions that achieve your desired data goal. 
  3. Ask questions that you can actually do something about
  4. A mix of close- and open-ended questions can both be used to capture quantitative and qualitative insights. 
  5. Additionally, a mix of questions that cover various aspects of the workplace/school experience helps provide a comprehensive view of parent/guardian/family, student, and/or employee engagement.
How do you structure an engagement survey?
  1. Set clear goals for what you want to learn from your survey, as well as for how you want to use the data you collect and who is going to use the data.
  2. Group questions into categories/dimensions 
  3. Use question logic and branching to make sure only appropriate audiences see questions specific to them
  4. Survey questions should also be easy to understand and collect data that is meaningful and actionable. 
  5. Additionally, it’s important for an engagement survey to clearly communicate its purpose to participants and ensure anonymity and/or confidentiality to foster honest feedback and increase participation.