Google Forms
Google forms are amazingly versatile tools for gathering information of all sorts. You can use them for quizzes, rubrics, surveys, parent data collection, exit tickets, behavior records, reading logs, observations, classroom brainstorming, equipment or book requests, student feedback, and for so many more things.
WEB RESOURCES:
A couple web resources with ideas:
HANDOUT:
VIDEO RESOURCES:
Here are the nuts and bolts of how to create a form. Frankly, it takes much longer to describe all the features of a form than it does to actually create and use one! (Please accept my apologies for the video quality of some of these! :-( ...)
MORE:
WEB RESOURCES:
A couple web resources with ideas:
HANDOUT:
- Here’s a handout that you may feel free to download and use as interested (some of Google's changes to the "new" drive and the process are not updated yet but the concepts remain intact): http://goo.gl/LzMBYd
- Click the down-pointing arrow just above the document to download it for printing. There are some things in the handout not specifically covered in the video, too!
VIDEO RESOURCES:
Here are the nuts and bolts of how to create a form. Frankly, it takes much longer to describe all the features of a form than it does to actually create and use one! (Please accept my apologies for the video quality of some of these! :-( ...)
- Part 1 - Create form, provide name, and make decisions about audience - VIDEO (2:59)
- Part 2 - Create multiple choice and checkbox questions; editing, duplicating, deleting questions; data validation - VIDEO (5:33)
- Part 3 - Add text questions; data validation; reorder questions - VIDEO (3:56)
- Part 4 - Create scale, grid, date, and time questions - VIDEO (4:37)
- Part 5 - Insert support items - section header, page break, picture, YouTube video - VIDEO (4:41)
- Part 6 - View live form, accepting responses, set up and view response form - VIDEO (3:45)
- Part 7 - Prepare and share link to others; complete form, then view responses - VIDEO (7:26)
- Part 8 - Enhance the appearance of your form. Check out all the neat templates, headers, colors, and options for your own images! Click the Change theme button to get started! - VIDEO (2:23)
MORE:
- See this additional resource on How to Password Protect a Google Form (With two simple characters, ^ and $ to surround our password, along with data validation, we can ask for a password as our first question then use a page break to hide all the rest! Clever! Check it out!)
- Want to know when someone submits a response to your form? Google can send you an email notification. See how.