Google Forms
Google Forms is a tool associated with Google Drive that can be used to collect information from students, ranging from text answers, to multiple choice answers, to scale (1-10) answers, to dates and time. The data can be examined on “Summary of Responses” page or can be collected in a spreadsheet, allowing for automatic grading and feedback for some sorts of information. In addition, Google Forms allows for integration of videos, images, and varying layouts, allowing a Google Form to serve as a content-delivery tool as well as an information-gathering tool.
Potential Uses
- Use it to do a pre-class survey to learn about your students.
- Use it to construct quizzes to assess student preparation and understanding.
- Use it to schedule class meetings.
- Use it to construct class groups.
- Use it to auto-grade quizzes.
- Use it to explain how to answer questions through insertion of video, images, or text.
- Use it to create an interactive rubric to give your students feedback.
Pros
- It’s free, easy to use, and integrates with almost all platforms.
- Student responses download into a spreadsheet format that allows for auto-grading of some question types and that can be used for semi-automatic feedback.
- It can be delivered via email, link, or integration into a webpage.
- Form submission is simple and students receive a confirmation of submission.
- It is set up to allow multiple question types: text or paragraph text (determines size of input box), multiple choice, check boxes (“choose all that apply”), choose from a list, scale, grid, date, and time.
Cons
- It doesn’t provide for secure log-in.
Building a Google Form
- The google instructions: https://sites.google.com/site/mestract/google-forms/google-form-examples-downloads
- Other people’s instructions: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/use-google-forms-to-create-a-survey/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwf72lwPLVY
Creating an auto-graded quiz
- Creating your own auto-grading script: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/use-google-forms-to-create-a-self-grading-quiz/
- Using the Flubaroo script for grading: http://www.flubaroo.com/instructional-videos
Creating an interactive rubric to give feedback
- Text example: http://mssphillips.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/giving-better-feedback-google-form-rubrics-and-autocrat/
- Video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHJXdYpvMA.
- The AutoCrat script is a mail-merge like tool that can simplify delivery of feedback to students. A video introduction to AutoCrat is provided here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbpjlDAepI
Examples
The survey shown here was created to illustrate the question types that are easily incorporated into a Google Form. The links under “Getting Started” provide several great examples of Google Form use in classes as well.