1. While preparing your ETD, where did you find answers to your questions?
Please select all that apply.
Telephone (4/552 responses) 
VT ETD Web site (181/552 responses) 
Other Web site(s) (14/552 responses) 
My committee (61/552 responses) 
InnovationSpace (was New Media Center) staff (3/552 responses) 
Graduate School staff (83/552 responses) 
Friends (87/552 responses) 
ETD tech support (16/552 responses) 
ETD seminar (16/552 responses) 
(67/552 responses) 
Other/Comments (20/552 responses) 99.22% of the people who took this survey
(256 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (20 for this question) "Department Grad Coordinator" "email I received with directions" "ETD wiki" "ETDWiki, dept. administrative staff" "EWR Administrators, Beth and Betty" "Library ETD archive" "other"( 10 ) responses "Other staff" "process was confusing" "Searching online" "VT Staff" 2. If you consulted the VT ETD Web site (etd.vt.edu), please indicate if the site was useful.
Not useful (8/246 responses) 
Useful (47/246 responses) 
Somewhat useful (81/246 responses) 
Very useful (110/246 responses) 95.35% of the people who took this survey
(246 / 258) answered this question.
3. If you used the InnovationSpace (was the New Media Center), please indicate if the staff was helpful.
Not helpful (12/72 responses) 
Helpful (21/72 responses) 
Somewhat helpful (21/72 responses) 
Very helpful (18/72 responses) 27.91% of the people who took this survey
(72 / 258) answered this question.
4. What authoring application(s) did you use to create your ETD?
Please select all that apply.
Other (25/304 responses) 
Audio editor (e.g., Audacity, Garageband) (0/304 responses) 
Video editor (e.g., iMovie, DVD Studio Pro) (3/304 responses) 
Word processor--technical (e.g., LaTex) (50/304 responses) 
Graphics editor (e.g., Photoshop) (38/304 responses) 
Word processor--generic (e.g., Word, WordPerfect) (188/304 responses) 97.29% of the people who took this survey
(251 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (25 for this question) "Adobe In-Design" "adobe indesign"( 2 ) responses "Adobe PDF" "inkscape" "Latex" "Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Visio)" "Origin" "other"( 12 ) responses "pdf" "Power Point" "Revit" "Visio"( 2 ) responses 5. Throughout the development of your ETD, what format(s) did you use to share your dissertation with your committee?
Please select all that apply.
Mix of electronic and paper (42/412 responses) 
Paper: Photocopy (7/412 responses) 
Paper: Printout (85/412 responses) 
Other (7/412 responses) 
Electronic: PDF file(s) (168/412 responses) 
Electronic: Text document (103/412 responses) 97.67% of the people who took this survey
(252 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (7 for this question) "additional video files" "ms docs" "MS word document" "other"( 3 ) responses "Word Doc" 6. Compared to what you expected, how difficult was it to create a PDF file?
Somewhat more difficult (23/249 responses) 
Much more difficult (3/249 responses) 
Somewhat less difficult (31/249 responses) 
Much less difficult (94/249 responses) 
Neither more nor less difficult (98/249 responses) 96.51% of the people who took this survey
(249 / 258) answered this question.
7. My computer is a
Other (8/257 responses) 
Unix (10/257 responses) 
PC (187/257 responses) 
Mac (52/257 responses) 98.06% of the people who took this survey
(253 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (8 for this question) "All three" "Linux" "other"( 4 ) responses "Windows and Linux" "Windows Laptop" 8. Compared to what you expected, how difficult was it to submit your thesis/dissertation electronically?
Neither more nor less difficult. (68/251 responses) 
Much more difficult (10/251 responses) 
Somewhat more difficult (34/251 responses) 
Somewhat less difficult (59/251 responses) 
Much less difficult (80/251 responses) 97.29% of the people who took this survey
(251 / 258) answered this question.
9. Where were you when you submitted your ETD?
Other (22/262 responses) 
Off-campus residence (113/262 responses) 
Northern Virginia Center (0/262 responses) 
Off-campus workplace (20/262 responses) 
Newman Library (4/262 responses) 
InnovationSpace (3/262 responses) 
At another university (7/262 responses) 
Campus office (92/262 responses) 
Campus residence hall (1/262 responses) 97.67% of the people who took this survey
(252 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (22 for this question) "Art and Architecture Library" "at another country" "At Barnes&Noble in South Bend, IN" "Commonwealth Campus Center office" "cowgill - architecture studio" "Grad School Building" "Graduate Life Center" "in lab" "Napa Valley" "on campus" "other"( 10 ) responses "Out of country" "Working in Hampton Roads" 10. How many ETDs did you consult while preparing your ETD?
more than 10 (5/251 responses) 
6-10 (25/251 responses) 
3-5 (94/251 responses) 
1-2 (114/251 responses) 
Did not consult any (13/251 responses) 97.29% of the people who took this survey
(251 / 258) answered this question.
11. If you restricted access to your VT ETD, on what did you base your decision?
Please select all that apply.
Sponsor(s) (6/206 responses) 
Other (25/206 responses) 
Advice of others (19/206 responses) 
Personal choice (54/206 responses) 
Patent pending (10/206 responses) 
Advice of publisher (6/206 responses) 
Advice of faculty (86/206 responses) 57.36% of the people who took this survey
(148 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (25 for this question) "anticipating publication of some results described in the ETD" "Graduate School staff" "JOURNAL PUBLICATION" "na" "No restriction" "No Restrictions" "open access" "other"( 12 ) responses "pending publication" "Pending publications" "Publication"( 2 ) responses "Publications pending" "work in progress" 12. Within the next 1-2 years, what do you intend to publish from your ETD?
Please select all that may apply.
Don't know yet (58/337 responses) 
Will not publish (6/337 responses) 
Conference proceedings (68/337 responses) 
Journal article (172/337 responses) 
Book chapter (15/337 responses) 
Book (13/337 responses) 
Other (5/337 responses) 96.12% of the people who took this survey
(248 / 258) answered this question.
Other Responses (5 for this question) "Already published" "already published as journal article" "Dissertation" "other"( 2 ) responses 13. Please include any comments or questions that you have about ETDs.
Text Responses (29 for this question) "A much elaborate Latex template would have made my job easier." "difficult to find information on ETD site (had to click through many pages to find formatting guidelines), could not find clear instructions of how/where to upload permissions documents." "Everything was pretty much guided either through website or through staff and faculty around." "Great website, only in that it is simple. It's rare that such an important process has such a simple and easy to use website. Please keep it that way." "I felt the site was constructed to guide the student in a straight forward manner." "I had a hard time figuring out what leads to the submission page, every time I opened the VT ETD homepage." "I kept hearing how difficult it was to submit an ETD, but so far so good! I guess I'll find out shortly if my submission goes through our not. The hardest part in preparing my dissertation for submission was figuring out how to create sections in my dissertation so that the page numbers were accurate." "I really like ETDs." "is ok" "Jodi Cromer in the Graduate School has been remarkably helpful in this process and has gone out of her way to make this submission (4 years removed from my defense) run smoothly." "No" "No comments" - ( 2 responses) "no further questions" "No." "None" - ( 2 responses) "Please update the information and links on the ETD website." "Some gaps in implementation knowledge on how to prepare ETD with LaTeX - properly creating PDF file, preparation problems, etc." "The availability options are different on the electronic portal and on the form so it is very confusing." "The ETD electronic system is very helpful" "The etd system has relatively poor usability and doesn't offer enough confirmation. I have no idea if my electronic submission was received, and that's concerning. The user interface needs a serious update. The university etd page is also lacking in usability. It took too many clicks and too much searching around to get a "how to" for submission. A step-by-step guide should be a prominent link on the "author" page. Finally, this survey appears to have some responses out of order. For example, "somewhat useful" would usually rank lower than "useful". This process generally failed to meet my expectations." "The ETD website has conflicting info in different places, specifically with video and audio being within the pdf or separate files and copyright info being in the appendix or a separate file. It was difficult to know what you wanted." "the pdf/a-1b information is a bit unclear, and if the red X comes up, rather than the green check, there is no trouble-shooting section" "The problem that I had was not with the site, it was with the graduate school. We were not given the correct site address. Additionally, the formatting requirements and changes that we were required to make just for the ETD were time-consuming and tedious, especially given the fact that I will have to change it back to the original format for publishing." "The website is well organized for information acquiring." "There is difficulty to use ETD system for Direct Ph.D students. There are system conflicts for this type of admission." "This survey was the most confusing part of the whole process." "Was an easy process."
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