Recommendations to others considering Phonic:
I would say you can always make a test survey by using the free version, and then decide from there! Only remember that you can only make 3 surveys and have 50 respondents so once you've see how nice Phonic is, probably go for premium. For a research study, the price is definitely reasonable.
I have some undergraduate research experience and I would say Phonic would work extremely well for case studies especially if you aren't able to be in-person. It has an option to add a signature of consent at the start of the survey which is super convenient. Having the built-in transcription ability makes it a lot easier than trying to hand-transcribe any interviews and you won't need a separate transcription tool.
It also would work really well as an accessible way to test students, since there's an audio response option. So any professors trying to get spoken responses on tests for online classes, this is for you! If I knew any foreign language professors, I would send them the link to Phonic personally.
For other k-12 teachers, Phonic is super nice for surveys and would work well for assessments too, but I would show it to your school and ask them to pay for the account instead of doing it personally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Phonic solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am currently teaching virtually and I wanted a way for students to record their names (so I could pronounce them properly) without having to video record themselves. Having a survey site that allowed them to answer some questions with text and some with audio was perfect for a simple "getting to know you" survey at the start of this semester.
In addition to hearing how students' names sound, I also used the long-text response option to ask students questions like "what is one specific thing you're going to do differently this semester?", "what are some of your interests?", and "what are two things you want your teacher to know about you?". This gave students the ability to type longer responses and put some thought into what they were saying.
The multiple section also came in handy because I wanted to get a sense of how student's technology situation was currently. This let me find out if students had a working mike, experienced internet issues, used a phone or a laptop, or had a lot of distractions at home.
Having the ability to make each question required before students could move on to the next and also showing the progress bar while taking the survey helped me. Students had to answer each question which meant I didn't have anyone just turn in a blank form, but I liked they were able to see how many more questions there were to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
