Using Google Forms

Google Forms is a less known feature in our Google Drive.  Many people like to use it to gather data or create surveys.  I have used Google Forms quite a bit in the past to collect data from our football team and also to collect data from my classes.  I find it to be a great way to collect names, addresses, emails, cell phone numbers etc.  I also have used it to give small quizzes in my classroom.  After our last assignment, I plan to use this feature more.  Google Forms has also improved over the years by adding features like charts and graphs that weren't available in the old version.  This lesson also taught me how to use features that I have never used before including: like check boxes, drop down menus and linear scale questions.  In my opinion, Google Forms is much more intuitive and flexible to use than Survey Monkey.

Getting people to take the survey is a snap.  You can send your participants a link, post a link on your website, or even embed it in your website.  One of the great features of emailing it is, you have the option to just email the survey, there is not link to click, just fill out the survey that is embedded in the email and Voila, you are done

Click Explore

Google Forms allows you to review the results two different ways.  #1 you can have Forms create a spreadsheet for you which you can share with others.  I am doing a program evaluation paper for Dr Lukacs for RST 672 and was able to share the spreadsheet I had with my principal.   If you are looking at spreadsheet you can click on Explore on the bottom right

Spreadsheet

Or #2 You can just click on responses at the top of your initial survey that you made.  This provides you with ready made charts like the one located on the right hand side of the page.

Another feature i like is that Forms time stamps all responses.  This way I can tell if new responses came in after I have previously looked at the data

Here is a link to my spreadsheet  BTW Make sure to get get a "shareable link so others can see it. Below is my embedded survey. I generally would just share or provide a link but I wanted to show of my Google Forms wizardry.