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Good Morning!
What can I say? Google Forms is such a wonderful tool!!!
There are so many ways to use Google Forms, I can’t list them all. However, I would like to give you a FEW ideas.
Create a form
- For students to fill out on research they’ve done on a specific topic. This way, you’ll have all their research in one spreadsheet. This research can be used to put into a Google MyMap. Example
- To ask parents to volunteer for class parties. Also see below.
- For student assignments, quizzes, or surveys.
- For a student quiz where he must watch a video before taking the quiz (or at least the video is available. Example Another idea along with this quiz is to have students watch a video and you can ask for the setting, the characters, theme, etc.
- To gather student information or parent information. Example
- For students to complete for a reading log. Example
- To collect data for a math project. Example
- With a link to a student’s assignment so you can find them all on one easy place. Example
- To walk around the room, record grades as you go, and then use this to transfer to a gradebook at a later time. Example
- For students to evaluate a project or assignment or other evaluations.
- For students to reflect on a project or topic.
Other items to be aware of with forms:
- You can create a ‘choose your own adventure’ sort of form. What I mean is if a person answers one way, he/she can be linked to a separate set of questions than others that have different answers. Example
- You can create a QR code (easily) for student to have the link to the form. You can hang the QR code in your classroom and the link would be accessible for smartphones and iPads. Here is one great tool to create QR codes, but there are many others. http://www.qrstuff.com/ Other ways of linking to the form would be to add the link or the QR code to Google Classroom for students to find!
- Use some of the wonderful add ons such as Flubaroo to grade your quizzes for you!! Check out the new QUIZZES in Google Forms. You can access this feature from the settings icon on the top right and click on the Quizzes tab.
- Students can create forms as well. Maybe they do a class presentation and then have their peers take a quiz on the content.
There are many uses for forms, and once the data is in, you have access to the data in a couple of different ways. Google creates a presentation of your data, but you also have access to the data in a Google sheet. We’ve even created a form for students to fill out where they keep a running record of their reading. When the student chooses his/her name, the data is put in a separate tab that only has that student’s data in it. This takes a little coding to do, but it is possible. Also, there are add ons for all sorts of ways to use the data in a spreadsheet. I’ll have to talk about some of these in a later email.
To create a form:
- Go to your drive and click NEW - FORM. The form will be on the MORE tab.
- Title your form and write a brief description.
- There is a place for you to start typing your first question.
- Choose the type of question you’d like. See the choices on right.
5. Once you’ve put in your question and choices (if that type of question, you can choose to make the question a required question that must be answered.
6. On the bottom, you also have choices to duplicate the question or delete the question.
7. If you click on the 3 dots at the bottom, you’ll have the choice to show description, go to section based on answer, and shuffle the order of the multiple choice answers. The Go To Section based on answer is best completed after finishing your form!
8. The menu allows you to insert different items into your form. The last choice, which looks like an = sign is how you create sections so you can have people go to a specific section based on the answer they give.
9. Lastly, there is a tool bar at the top right. You can choose your color or insert an image for the form, view the form as someone filling it out would see, settings for the form and you’ll want to visit this before sending out your form, and the SEND button where you get the link to your form. The 3 dots here at the top also give you more options! Check them out!
Forms are highly useful tools in the classroom and as a teacher! Give them a try!
To see your data, after people have started filling out the form, you can click on RESPONSES and see your data. There is also a little green icon and this is how you’d open the data in a Google Sheet!
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