Another great use of Google Docs is Google Forms—a fabulous tool for creating surveys or even giving short multiple choice quizzes. You create your survey or quiz using Google Forms, post them on your classroom website or blog, students complete the survey or quiz, and their answers appear in an easy to view or grade spreadsheet. Whenever someone fills out your survey or quiz online, the corresponding spreadsheet is updated automatically. Here are some important guidelines:
1. Make sure that the first question is “student name.” Otherwise you won’t know who submitted which responses.
2. You can mix question types (multiple choice, short answers, paragraph) but if you have too many types and too many students, the spreadsheets are a bit difficult to view.
On the Google docs page Click Create New and drop down to Form
On this screen (the form entry interface) you will have a few options to choose from.
There is a place to put the title and an area for instruction at the top.
The +Add item pull down lets you edit this form. You will notice that when it comes to questions you can add several different types. The Question type has a corresponding Drop Down menu with “Text” being the default type. If you absolutely want the question answered, make sure to click the “Make this a required question.” If you are finished with your question, click the Done button.
You can continue to add more questions by using the +Add Item drop down button.
Next you can choose from several themes. Remember, nothing is set in stone; you can change themes, until you find the one you like.
Now that you have your form created, you can either email it to your intended participants (you created a survey for other teachers to respond) or place the link on your website (you created a quiz for your students).
Instead of completing the yellow and white emergency forms at the beginning of the year, wouldn’t it be great if our district had an online form for us to complete! The spreadsheet could be easily manipulated for whatever list the district needed, whether it be an alphabetically listing of its employees or a listing by school site .
The possibilities are endless. Please take a look at either Elisa’s two surveys or mine on our websites.
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