Forms

Washington State University has two tools people can utilize when gathering input.

While there is quite a bit of shared functionality between the tools, they each have their strong suits.

Transaction Form? Collecting Money?

If you need to collect money electronically, please contact the Bursar’s Office about their TouchNet Store solutions for card processing.

Form Types	Gravity Form	Qualtrics
Credit Card Processing	no	no
Sensitive & Protected Data	no	yes
General Inquiries	yes	yes
Feedback	yes	yes
Registration	yes	yes
Surveys	yes (Excludes sensitive & protected data)	yes

Sensitive & Protected Data and FERPA

Important: Qualtrics is the only tool available for gathering sensitive & protected data. This includes information protected under FERPA.
WSU: WSU FERPA – Rights and Privacy (Directory Information) & FERPA Training and Certification Test
U.S. Department of Education: Protecting Student Privacy: FERPA

Labeled as “Forms” in the left menu of your WordPress site’s backend.

Send a request to either your Web Coordinator or submit a web support ticket to general help to add the Gravity Forms Plugin.

Plugin on the WordPress platform
Good at taking small batches of non-sensitive data (Executive Policy #37: WSU Information Security Policy)

Signing into WSU’s qualtrics account will automatically create your an account with the ability to create new surveys.

Support Inquiries: WSU Surveys