Ask students what actually shapes a good team.
Before you can form teams, you need more than a class list. Teamer's formation surveys collect the things that make or break group work: when students are free, what they can do, who they work well with, and what they want to build.
How it works
What happens, in order. Staff stay in charge at each step.
Build the survey
Start from question types that cover availability, skills, preferences, constraints, and project interests, and keep only the ones your course needs.
Send a secure link
Students answer from any device through a private link. There is no account to create and nothing to install.
Watch responses arrive
See who has replied and who has not at a glance, and send a reminder to the students still outstanding.
Hand it to matching
When you are ready, the responses feed straight into draft team generation. No exporting, re-keying, or spreadsheets in between.
What you can ask
Build from question types that map to what actually shapes a team, and keep only the ones your course needs.
Availability
When students are free across the week, so a team can actually meet.
Skills and strengths
What each student brings, from technical areas to the role they tend to play.
Preferences
Who they would like to work with, in their own words.
Constraints
Anything that should be taken into account when a team comes together.
Project interests
The kind of problem or project they want to take on.
What students experience
- A short survey that takes a few minutes
- Opens from any phone or laptop through a secure link
- No account, no password, nothing to download
Your data
Survey responses, including free-text answers, are stored in Australia, in the Sydney region on Supabase. They only leave the country, de-identified, if you turn on AI-assisted matching.
Read how Teamer handles dataFrequently asked
What should you ask in a team formation survey?
The questions that change who ends up with whom: availability across the week, skills and strengths, project interests, any constraints, and a few classmates a student would like to work with. Anything that would not move a single student between teams just lowers your response rate, so leave it out.
How many questions should a group formation survey have?
Short enough to finish in a few minutes. Students answer honestly when a survey is quick and they trust it matters, so Teamer's formation surveys keep to the handful of inputs that actually shape a team rather than a long questionnaire.
Do students need an account to fill in the survey?
No. Students answer from any phone or laptop through a secure link, with no account to create and nothing to install.
Set up your survey with us
Tell us about your cohort and we will build a formation survey tuned to your course, then help you get it in front of students in a pilot.
Start a pilot