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 School
GOOGLE FORMS (NAVIGATION AND Students
INTERFACE)
 Graduate
Use & application of Google Forms  Post Graduate
 Create  Doctorate
 Collaborate Non-Teaching staff
 Design
 Data Analytics  Institution
 Share  Faculty
 Department
WHAT?
Heads
Google Forms is a survey administration software
included as part of the free, web-based Google Does  Institution
Editors suite offered by google.  Faculty
 Department
WHEN?
HOW?
 Registration
 Opinion  Access
 Assessment  Create
 Collect Information  Design
 Collect Assignment/ Answer Sheet  Choose questions
 Attendance  Collaborate
 Create quiz
WHERE?
 Data analytics
 Quiz
Three Ways for Accessing Google Forms
 Feedback
 Test  Using links
 Poll  Through Google Drive
 Research Tools  Through Gmail- 9 dots
 Survey

WHY?
Steps for Creating Google Forms
Types of Questions
1. Create new form either from blank or a template.
 MCQ 2. Starting from the top, you can add a title and
 Scale description
 Grid
 Paragraph 3.In the box below, you can add questions.
 Checkbox 4.To add more questions hit the + icon from the toolbar
 Short Answer on the right.
WHO? 5.Other settings found in the floating toolbar includes
Teachers importing questions from other forms, adding a subtitle
and description, adding a photo, adding video and
 University creating a separate section in your form.
 College
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6.To see how your form looks when others open it, hit  Matching
the Preview icon present at the top right next to Settings.  Selection
 Ranking

Multiple choice grid question:

Steps for designing Google Form

1.Hit the Customize Theme icon, right next to the
Preview icon, to open theme options.
2.You can then choose a preloaded image as the header
or you can even choose a personal photo as well.
 It allows to select one answer per row.
 It has multiple rows and columns
 Used for online surveys.
Checkbox grid question:

3.Choose theme colour of the header image
4.Choose font styles.
How to choose questions in Google Forms
Linear scale question:
1.Choose Short answer for giving a one line answer
2.Choose Paragraph for a multiple line or detailed
answer.
3.Choose Multiple choice, checkboxes or dropdown for
multiple options.
4.Select Linear for scaled answers.( from lower to higher)
 It allows to select multiple answer choices per
row.
 They are used when one has similar sub
questions (rows) and standard answer options
(columns).
 It allows users to provide a numeric response to
a statement or a question.
 It starts from lowest to the left & highest on the
right (either O or 1 and ends on 5 to 10 with
labels for each end of the scale).
 Used for collecting rated opinion.

5. If you want more columns and rows in multiple choice

questions then select Multiple Choice grid or Checkbox
grid.

6. Answer in the form of uploading files viz. photos,

videos, documents etc. ( set the max. no. of files as well
as the max. file size limit)

7.Duplicate question by hitting Duplicate at the bottom

& remove a particular question by hitting Delete.

Grid Questions

Combines several question types together into a one

table.
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Steps to Collaborate in Google Forms QUIZZES

1.Go to the three dots icon in the top right and click Add Question 1
collaborators.
Checkbox grid
2.You can then add the emails of people with whom you
Type of question that lets you collect more answers in
want to collaborate with or you can copy the link and
one question. The difference is that here you can select
share it via third party apps such as WhatsApp Web or
more than one field for each row
Facebook Messenger.
Question 2 (1 point)
3. Click Send to share your form via email or link (shorten
the URL) or embed. Multiple choice grid
Steps for creating Quiz Type of question that lets you collect more answers in
one question. The difference is that the answers are
1.Go to Settings > click Quizzes tab > enable Make this a
collected as Columns names
quiz.
Question 3
2.Choose respondents to get the results immediately or
reveal it later manually. 3.Select - respondent can see Checkboxes
Missed questions, Correct answers and Point values.
This type of question instead of selecting only one
Click Save to close.
answer you can select multiple answers.
4.Under every question assign the correct answer and its
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points /marks.
[Answer Key > tick the correct answer > assign the points +
> add answer feedback (optional) click Save] To add a question in Google Forms you have to use the
hovering menu on the right-hand side. Use to click to add
5.Correct answer will automatically be rewarded with full
points which can be checked by going to the Responses a question.
tab. Question 5
Steps for Data analytics Add image
1.Click Responses tab. Common options in Google Forms questions. You can
use this to ask the user something about the image.
2.Disable Accepting Responses

3.Click on Summary tab to look at the performance of all Question 6

the respondents.
4.The question tab evaluates the responses by selecting
each question one by one.
5.Finally, the Individual tab evaluates the individual
performance of each respondent.
6.Click on plus icon for creating spreadsheet for all the
received responses
Required
Google Form is going to block the submission of the form
until the user enters data in that question. Also, if the
required question is a part of a section you cannot
progress to the next section if you leave it empty
Question 7
Linear scale

This question type lets your users select a number value

in the range defined in the question. This type of
question is generally used in measuring the rating level
of satisfaction.
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Question 8 question over Multiple choice question type if you have

a lot of options and you want to save space.
Date
Question 1
This question type will enable you to collect Month, day
and time from the user. Google Forms application can be downloaded

Question 9 TRUE

If this is a required question and nothing from the given Question 2

options can be selected as an answer, you can add Other
You can select more than one answer for question type
option. This option gives the user an option to add a
“multiple Choice”
custom answer.
False- Checkboxes
Question 10
Question 3
Paragraph
There is a cost associated with Google Forms
Question type is used for collecting a longer text and can
contain more the one paragraph. False- No Cost
Question 11 Question 4
File upload You need google account to use google forms
This question type enables users to submit a file with TRUE
their answers in Google form.
Question 5
Question 12
Google Forms is a tool that is part of Google Drive for
Short answer creating surveys, tests, or web input forms.
This type of question is for a short text TRUE
Question 13 Question 6
Multiple choice Short Answer
Default question type in Google Forms. You can use this When you want the form-filler to write a short answer.
type of question to collect only one from the pre-defined They can write a longer answer, but the box is small so
answers. The answers can be in the form of text or an they can only see few words.
image.
Question 7
Question 14
Paragraph
Google Form
When you want the form-filler to write a longer answer.
is a free online tool that's part of G Suite Google's The box is bigger than a Shor answer so they can see
complete office suite what they’ve written.
Question 15 Question 8
Dropdown Multiple Choice
This question type is more like Multiple choice question When you want to give them limited options. These are
type, but instead of displaying all the options, it displays easier to analyze afterward as these standardize the
a list with all the options. You can use this type of answer format, i.e. no room for interpretation or
misspelling. However, in tests, these are usually easier
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than answers which require the form-filler to write in an Question 14

answer. You can open by offering the “Other” option,
Date
where the form filler writes in an alternative response.
This can be usual questionnaires, where you don’t always The form-filler will be able to either type in or select one
know all the possible responses that the form fillers will from the calendar by clicking on the inverted triangle.
come up with.
Question 15
Question 9
Time
Checkboxes
It’s in digital format, i.e. XX:XX, but the form-filler can
Form-fillers can select more than one option. enter the time using the 12h or 24h
Question 10

Drop down

This is useful if the question has a lot of options, so you

save space on your form, or where you have a lot of
questions and what to save space on the page, to make
the form look smaller and therefore, look quicker to fill
out. The form-filler doesn’t see the options until they
click on the choices menu.

Question 11

Linear Scale

It starts with either a 0 or a 1 and can go up to 10. It runs

from the lowest on the left and the highest on the right.
You can give the extremes a label, e.g. Poor/ Excellent.
Despite this, we’ve had times where people have
misread this and assumed the left-hand side was the
best, so resulting in a 1 rather than 5.

Question 12

Multiple Choice Grid

The rows are the different questions or areas, and the

columns are usually the opinions, but you could set it up
for other users too. It’s like having lots of multiple choice
questions joined together. You can also make the form-
filler add a response for each row, by clicking on the
“Require one response per row” slider button.

Question 13

Text Box Grid

The user will be able to select multiple options per row

and per column