Share Forms With Students

You can always push a Form out to students using Google Classroom. Classroom does all the necessary "behind the scenes" work to make sure students get a "view only," not an "editable" copy of the Form. No need to copy the URL's and add them to the assignments. Add Forms directly from Google Classroom, using the, "Add Google Drive File." This allows you to add a Form directly from your Google Drive. 

You can also create a new Form "on the fly," by clicking the "+" sign when you create a new assignment when in Google Classroom. A blank Form will open, which you can complete. It becomes part of that assignment.

There may be times you don't want to use Google Classroom to share Forms with students.

You can do the following to share Forms with students.:

 1. Put Links On A Class Webpage

 2. Put Links On Media Center Pages

 3. Make a tiny URL to make sharing long URL's easier.:

• Bitly.com

• TinyURL

• Rebrandly

• Zapier.com

• Ow.ly

• Note: Google has discontinued its "Google URL shortener." Goo.gl no longer works.

• Also, check "Add-ons" when in Docs, Sheets, etc. and look for add-ons that are URL shortners.

 4. Create a Sites homepage for your Google Workspace; link Forms to the SITES page

 5. Create a Google Doc with links to a Google Form and publish the Doc; publishing a Doc makes it a
    "live" webpage. Students can access the published Doc with browsers.

 6. Share a Doc within your domain; make it "view only"; include links to Forms

 7. Email links to others - co-workers, parents/guardians, staff, etc. If you do email with your students, email links to them

 8. Use a current class webpage you have and link to Forms from that page

 9. Add links inside blogs and instant messages

10. Use a site similar to the ones below to collect bookmarks to share with students. Or, show students how to collect
      bookmarks in their browsers, organize them into folders and access them later.:

• Bookmarks and Reading Lists right in the Chrome Browser (see below)

• Google Bookmarks (Click here for Google Bookmarks)  Be sure to sign in to your Google account.

• Raindrop.io (Click here)

• Bookmark Ninja (Click here)

• Pocket (Click here)

• Diigo (Click here) May not have free version.

• Tiny URL (Click here for tinyurl.com)

• I Keep Bookmarks (Click here for ikeepbookmarks.com)

• Use Google Keep

11. Create a WORD document, add links, and post on the shared school network

12. Use some of the latest features in browsers to collect bookmarks, links to resources on the WEB. Show students how
      to create their own reading lists and bookmarks in browsers.:

• Google "Reading List and Bookmarks": Click the icon in the top of your Chrome Browser to open a sidebar that allows you to keep a reading list and bookmark. Be sure to sign in to your Google account. The icon looks like a square with a dark, right sidebar. (see image below)

Examples:

1) Create Links For Students From:

• Webpages - class webpages, school webpages, media center pages.
  Click here for an example of linking to a FORM from this webpage

• A Google Doc that you create within your domain and share with students as "view only"
  Click here for an example of a DOC, with links for students to use.

2) Embed A FORM On A Google SITES Page. Students can fill out the FORM right on the
    SITES page.

• Below is an example of a FORM embedded on this webpage.

• No need for the student to click on a link and open a Form in a browser.

• Students can answer questions on the Form without leaving the webpage.

• The Form below has been embedded in full size to make it easier to read/fill in. You can make it any size you wish.