Create Quizzes and Surveys with Forms

If you already use Google Classroom this session aims to help you use it more effectively to manage the paperless workflow between you and your students. Dive into examples of how Classroom’s core tools of Announcements, Questions and Assignments can be used. We will look at ways you can digitise existing tasks, and provide effective feedback to students. Please be prepared to share examples of your own Classroom use with the group.

Forms are amazing. They can be used to collect data, conduct a survey, vote in an election, or quiz your students. They really have almost unlimited uses in a school environment and can totally change the way you do things in a school.

Forms can have the following question types…

You can also manage the general flow and look of your Forms by including...

Section Headers
Page Breaks
Images
Videos

Try this sample form which has examples for all the different question types.

Forms are also Collaborative, so you can work with someone else to create one. Note that sharing a Form (as a collaborator) is different to sharing a regular Google Doc. There is no big blue Share button… instead from the three dots menu, choose Add Collaborators.

You can have up to 5 people collaborating together on a Form. (if you’re wondering why they don’t just use a Share button like other Google Docs, it’s probably because the term “share” could get quite confusing as it might suggest you are sharing the form to others to fill in, which is entirely different.

Activity 1

Create a form that uses at least 6 of the different question types, but you MUST use Scale, Grid and Multiple Choice question types. The other 3 (or more) are up to you.

Once you create your form...

Choose a Theme
Connect a Spreadsheet to collect the data
View the Live Form
Send it to a couple of people to fill out.
Fill it out yourself
View the Summary of responses
File Upload

Ask you respondents for feedback on your form design. Modify and improve the form based on their feedback.

Activity 2

Create a form with the appropriate questions for one of the following types of uses. Use the appropriate question types for each question, but also try to use a variety of different question types. Some ideas might include...

Survey of opinion on a particular topic
Pizza ordering form
Multiple choice quiz
Shopping List
Household inventory
Customer service feedback
Peer assessment review
End of topic review

Activity 3

Use a Form to create a multiple choice quiz. (here is a sample)

Add at least 4 questions
Collect the respondent’s name and email address
Enable the quiz feature and then indicate which answers are the correct ones
Take your quiz a few times yourself and send it to two other people to complete

Activity 4

Create a form that uses conditional branching… (here is a sample). PLAN it out first!

Choose Your Own Adventure game
Survey of different year groups
Come up with your own idea!

First, design your Form with Page Breaks and Section Headers to create the different sections. Then use multiple choice questions with 'Go to Section Based on Answer' to do the branching and direct people to different sections based on their answers.

Useful AddOns for Forms

Form Limiter
Form Notifications
DocAppender
SimplySend
Form Values
All Questions Required?
Choice Eliminator 2
Form Ranger

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