“How is everyone doing?” in chat gets you the loudest few voices and nothing you can track. This template measures how your community actually feels: members rate how connected they feel and how much they get out of being there, which becomes a health score you can trend, then pick what they want more of and name the one thing they would change. You leave with a trendable number and a to-do list.
Run it on a cadence, quarterly or after a big change, to catch disengagement before people quietly leave.
A number and a next step
Two 1-to-5 rating scales average into a health score you can trend over time. The activities multi-select tells you what to do about it. The open box catches the thing you did not think to ask, and the volunteer question surfaces the helpers who will fix it with you. Only the two ratings feed the formula, so tenure and the volunteer ask stay descriptive.
Because a rating answer is a number rather than a picked option, each scale also reports its own average and distribution. That is what lets you tell a belonging problem from a value problem instead of guessing which one moved.
The example is a quarterly community pulse. Swap the community name and it fits any server or org that wants to measure and improve how it feels to belong.
Variants
- More dimensions: add rating blocks (safety, moderation quality, event satisfaction) and extend the health formula to divide by the new count.
- Words instead of faces: swap a rating for an opinion scale when the wording of each point matters more than the tap target.
- Anonymous pulse: switch to anonymous for franker answers on a sensitive community.
- Segment tracking: slice the health score by tenure to see where engagement drops.
- Volunteer funnel: route the willing members to a follow-up to onboard the helpers you surface.