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Blended & Online Learning Design Fellows

Blended & Online Learning Design Fellows

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

Creating an auto-graded quiz

Creating an interactive rubric to give feedback

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.