Learn how to utilize Google Forms to facilitate learning and drive instruction and the basics of creating, designing, and sharing Google forms for surveys and quizzes.
ISTE Standard: Facilitator
To meet this standard, educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:
6a. Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
6b. Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.
6c. Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.
6d. Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.
Teachers who effectively use Google Forms are Facilitators because they are able to utilize student feedback and assess understanding to "foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings."
Learning Intentions
I can create a Google Form with a title, a description, multiple question types, and multiple item types.
I can customize a Google Form’s color and design.
I can customize a Google Form’s settings and confirmation message.
I can create a self-grading quiz using Google Forms.
I can share and distribute a Google Form.
Success Criteria
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Why Use Google Forms?
Google Forms is a web-based app used to create forms for data collection purposes. Students and teachers can use Google Forms to make surveys, quizzes, or event registration sheets. Google Forms is part of the Google suite of applications and is available as part of your CSDDocs account.
How can Google Forms help me?
Watch this introductory video (1:59) on how Google Forms can help in a business environment, and think about how this could apply to your classroom with students, colleagues, or parents. Keep in mind, the "how-to" of this video is outdated, but the "why" is still valid.
A Tour of Google Forms
Next, watch another example (3:30) of using a Google Forms to gather data. Think of ways this can help you in your classroom or plan school-wide activities.
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Creating Google Forms
If you are familiar with other Google applications, like Docs or Slides, some of the features of Google Forms will be familiar, but of course, Google Forms has its own unique set of tools and settings. Learn all about creating forms on this page.
Logging On to CSDDocs
As a quick reminder, be sure to log in to your CSDDocs account before beginning your work with Forms. Visit http://drive.google.comLinks to an external site. and log in to your CSDDocs account using the following login credentials:
Teacher Login:
Username: District Active Directory Username
first.last
Notice that the ending @csddocs.org is required. On a Chromebook this ending is usually added for you.
Password: District Active Directory Password
The password or passphrase you use to log in to your District email account
Google Forms Tutorial
Watch the following tutorial, created by Ed Tech Specialist Doug Rolley, to understand the basics of using Google Forms.
Next, watch the following tutorial that will take you through the steps of creating and using (23:33) a form.
Google Forms Practice
Open your CSDDocs account and create a new Google Form
Select a template or use a blank form
Change the background color
Title your form
Add questions
Preview the form
Add a section
Add a question with a check box
Add a question with a drop-down menu
Add an opinion question, using the linear scale
Add a multiple choice grid question
Preview your form and copy the URL
Add the URL to a Canvas course, Google Classroom feed, or teacher website
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Google Forms Quizzes
With education becoming more and more data-driven, assessments, exit tickets, and other checks for understanding are becoming more and more important for teachers. It seems like there is never enough time to grade students' assignments and analyze the results. With the variety of question types available, Google Forms makes a great quiz-building tool! In fact, in 2016, Google introduced Google Quizzes officially!
Google Forms Quizzes Tutorial
Watch the video (7:12) below to learn the steps to create a quiz using Google Forms.
Google Forms Quizzes Practice
Create a new form using your CSDDocs account
Convert the form to a quiz
Add a multiple-choice question with answer key and points
Add a check-box question with answer key and points
Add a drop-down question with answer key and points
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Google Forms Examples
Below is a list of example forms created by former students in the course. Click on some of the forms below to check out others' ideas of how to use Google Forms in the classroom.
Google Forms
ISTE Standard: Facilitator
Learning Intentions