Google Forms Guide: How To Create A Google Form For Free.
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Google Forms Guide: How To Create A Google Form For Free
Anyone with a Google account can use Google Forms. It’s just a great tool for creating polls, quizzes, and just about any other form you can think of.
In this article, we’ll show you how to create a Google Form in just a few easy steps.
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1. Begin Creating a Google Form
First, go to forms.google.com and login if prompted. It’s time to decide what shape you want to make. You can choose one of the templates in the template gallery, create a new shape from scratch, or copy the shape you created earlier.
Make a test
If you are writing a test, you can start by choosing a template or an empty test. Alternatively, at any time, you can make your form a quiz by going to Settings and then on the Tests tab, click the radio button to make it a quiz. By making your form a quiz, you can assign points to each question. Google Forms automatically grades responses from respondents.
Turning your form into a quiz also opens up some other possibilities, such as telling the respondent how he did on the test. You can “remove” the grade after each question, or later after you manually check their answers.
You can also choose whether respondents will see missed questions, correct questions, and/or scores.
Then give your form a title and, if you like, a description.
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2. Adding a Question or Element
Google Forms are mostly made up of questions, but you can also add additional elements such as images, videos, and sections.
Importing Questions and Items
If you’ve previously created a Google Form that has questions or items that you want to use in the new form, you can import them.
Click the Import icon, then select the form containing the questions you want to import and select Select. Then, in the Import Questions pane, select the check box next to each question or item that you want to import. Finally, click the Import Questions button.
Types of questions
Add a question manually by clicking the Add Question icon.
Enter a question and, if you like, click the Insert Image icon to the right of the question. Images can come from a variety of sources, including your computer, camera, Google Photos, Google Drive, or Google image search.
Then select the question type. Google Forms includes all the standard question types you’ll find in other form tools like SurveyMonkey or Microsoft Forms.
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Question types include:
- Short Answer
- Paragraph
- Multiple Choice
- Checkboxes
- Dropdown Selector
- File upload (the files will be uploaded to the form owner’s Google Drive.)
- Linear Scale
- Multiple Choice Grid
- Checkbox Grid
- Date
- Time
Enter the answers to your question. For any type of question, there are options under question and answers, where you can require an answer, add a description or other additional text under the question, add an answer check, indicate which section the respondent should go to based on his answer, and/or change the order in which options for answers appear.
3. Pick a Theme
See how your form will look to respondents at any time by selecting the Preview icon.
To spice up the look of your form, select the Theme Options icon. Here you can choose a header image for your form, as well as theme and background colors. You can also choose from four font styles. (Special Request: For the love of all that is holy, please never and never choose a “Decorative” font.)
4. Check Settings for More Options
Selecting the Settings (gear) icon will give you access to additional options related to collecting responses, submitting your form, and quiz options described above.
Settings for collecting responses
On the General tab, you can choose to collect the email addresses of people filling out your form. In addition, you can configure the form to send respondents email responses automatically or only if the respondent asks for a copy.
You can also prevent people from answering multiple times. There are also settings to allow respondents to edit their responses after submitting the form and to allow them to see pivot charts and text responses.
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Presentation settings
On the Presentation tab under Settings, you can choose to show respondents a progress bar showing which part of the form they need to fill out. If you want questions to be randomized, select the Shuffle Questions checkbox. And, if you would like respondents to be able to fill out the form again, check the box next to Show link to submit another response.
On the Presentation tab, you can also write a confirmation message that will be displayed after respondents have completed the form.
5. Share Your Form
When your form is ready to go, click the Submit button. You will see several ways to share your form. Select the Collect email addresses check box if you want to keep track of respondents’ email addresses.
To email the form, enter the recipient’s email address, the subject of the message, and, if desired, a short message. If you want the form to be directly embedded in the email itself, rather than in the email with a link to the form, select the Include Form in the Email checkbox.
If you want to share the form with other editors for editing, select Add Collaborators and add editors by selecting them from the list or by entering their email address.
Create link
Selecting Send by Link will generate a link that you can copy and paste anywhere, including in a text message, messaging app, or chat group.
Share on social networks
Selecting the Facebook or Twitter icons will open a new browser tab with a pre-filled draft message for your chosen social network.
6. Get Answers
Click on the Answers tab and you will have access to a summary of the answers. You can also view individual responses or export responses to a spreadsheet.
Generate HTML to embed
If you want to embed the form on a web page, select Submit via Inline HTML. You can specify the width and height of the form, and Google Forms will generate HTML code that you can copy and paste into your website.
Add-Ons for Google Forms
There are many Google Forms add-ons available in the Google Workspace Marketplace. These add-ons can extend the functionality of Google Forms in all sorts of ways. Click the More / Ellipsis icon to the right of the Submit button and select Add-Ins.
Do you want to add a timer to your form, set up email notifications, or generate a word cloud from form responses? There is an add-on for this.
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Google Forms Guide: How To Create A Google Form For Free
Google Forms Guide: How To Create A Google Form For Free.