Quizzes & Data Collection with Google Forms
Activity 6
Choose your mode of delivery
Option 1. Complete & follow the tasks below
Option 2. Watch the webinar series
Task 1. Complete the following survey
You just filled in a Google Form. Google Forms is a tool in the Google suite which allows you to build questionnaires, surveys, exams/quizzes, step by step guides, and more, for your students, colleagues or school families to complete.
You may have noticed some of the following features offered by Google Forms when you completed the survey:
Different types of answers - short text, multiple choice, and scale, to name a few.
Answer validation - some questions were required, others optional. Some required a specific kind of answer - e.g. 'what age do you feel?' only accepted a number.
Media - including images and youtube videos.
Multiple sections / pages - Allowing you to break up your form into parts.
Response summaries - The ability to show participants some statistics about all the data entered into the form so far by other participants.
This represents just some of the features you can utilise in Google Forms. We will look at some more later on in this activity.
Task 2. Have a go at creating your own Google Form!
Visit your Google Drive or visit the Google Forms website.
Create a new Google Form.
Try to replicate some of the features from the survey form.
Publish the form and have a colleague complete it. Forms are accessed via web address, which can be emailed, or copied. You can also publish a form by adding it to a Google Classroom.
Task 3. Complete the following 'exam'
What are some differences between this form and the survey you completed earlier?
You were asked for your email address. Google Forms can capture your google account email to identify you, or you can keep it anonymous (like the survey).
As a quiz/exam, there are correct and incorrect answers.
Your exam was graded automatically, including automatic feedback.
The exam had a different font and colour scheme to the survey. Google Forms can have their look customised.
Task 4. Build your own exam!
Create another Google Form.
Make it a quiz from the settings menu (cog wheel) > quizzes tab.
Try to replicate some of the features from the exam form.
Publish the form and have a colleague complete it.
Go to the responses tab to see their results, and try to customise their mark.
Other features to explore...
Google Forms can do a lot more than what the activities above demonstrate. See if you can achieve the following in a third form:
"Go to section based on answer". This allows you to have non-linear forms, directing users to different sections of the form depending on certain answers they give.
Other question types. You can multiple choice or tick box grids, date and time, drop-down lists, and even file uploads as question types.
Send responses to Google Sheets. Responses can be automatically sent to a Google Sheet for further data analysis and manipulation. This is done from the Responses tab.