Google Forms is a free web-based application that allows users to create surveys, quizzes, polls, feedback forms, etc., using various questions, including open- and close-ended ones, and response options, such as multiple-choice, dropdown, and linear scale. Users can track the collected data in the Google Forms app itself or in a spreadsheet. It is necessary to have a Google account to create a Google Form, but settings can be adjusted so that anyone can fill it out, meaning no Google account is required for respondents.
Google Forms is a web-based application of Google that allows teachers to assess students’ learning, engage them through different content-related quizzes and tests, and collect students’ survey responses on a specific topic. Google Forms records all answers from participants in real-time, so teachers can connect the results to a spreadsheet on Sheets and save data directly into a spreadsheet. Teachers need to have a Gmail account to use Google Forms, but respondents do not require it.
Before starting to teach a new topic, the teachers can create an anticipation guide as a discussion starter on the specific topic using Google Forms. Once students fill out the forms, they can read peers’ opinions and have more engaged and informed discussions in the class.
Teachers can create quizzes, tests, and self-assessment forms for students using different questions and response features such as multiple choice, checkbox, dropdown, open-/close-ended questions, multiple-choice or tick box grid, and file upload. While creating quizzes, teachers can allow students to see their results immediately after submission or prefer to release results after manually checking them. Google Forms features also enable students to see their missed questions, correct answers, and point values they got for each question. Additionally, teachers can provide feedback to students for their assessment question results in written form, or post a link where students can learn more about the answer to that question.
With Google Forms, teachers can create a survey to collect students’ feedback about the taught topic, teaching strategies, learning process, and classroom environment, and get constructive input on how they can help students to maximize their learning.
ImplementationGoogle Forms allows users to create accessible forms and quizzes and label them correctly for screen readers. In some cases, a person with a screen reader or keyboard may also be able to edit or create a form. However, the users should add alt texts to all images they add to Google Forms and ensure the embedded videos have closed captions because Google forms cannot provide these services.
To use Google Forms, teachers need to fill out a form with Gmail accounts. Google processes the users’ data to fulfill their contractual obligation to deliver services, and only Google’s customers own their data, not Google. On the other hand, students do not need Gmail accounts to complete the forms. To make Google Forms participation anonymous, the teacher must enable that feature through the form’s settings.
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