Using Google Form to Create a Quiz or Survey for Your Classroom

Using Google Forms for “Bell Work”

Teachers often find themselves with an onslaught of  demands at the beginning and end of class.  Students often use the beginning or end of class to ask about late work, missing work or clarification of homework.  At this point it may be helpful to assign “Bell Work”.  Bell work is a way to have the students focus on a short activity that takes five to ten minutes while the teacher is busy doing attendance, handing out papers, etc.  The following will demonstrate how to create a short assignment using Google forms.

The first step is to go to Google Drive.  You can access it from your gmail by clicking on the the little square in the top right corner.

 

Then you should click on “Drive”

Once you click on “Drive” you will want to click on “Create” and “Form”

At this point, you will get this nifty introduction to Google Forms.  Feel free to click “Learn more” if you would like to go through the tutorial.  In our case, we will click on “Get started”

Now the fun begins!  The form is very user friendly and is a nice template that allows you to design your own survey/short quiz:

So for the “Untitled Form” section, you could put in the title of your quiz as you would put it in your gradebook.  The form description could include your name and subject.  

When you start the quiz/survey, It’s a good idea to put in three questions:  What is your first name?  What is your last name? What period do you have (fill in your name)’s class?  After you enter the question title, select add item and move on to the next question.

Notice how you can change the question type from multiple choice to text or scale if you prefer.  

Here’s what the form looks like after I did the above changes:

In this case, I create one question:  Please list three of California’s Biomes.  When you are finished creating the quiz/survey, click on “Done” and “Send Form”

Here is the screen you will receive after you click “send form”:

Here are your options:

1.  Click on “Link to share”
1. Copy and paste the link into an email and send it to the class
1. The students receive the link, click on it, and take the survey/quiz
2. Write the link onto the board and have the students go to that address on their computers/smart phones/Chromebooks
1. Side note:  Go to http://goo.gl/ to shorten the link to make it easier to write it down
2. For example the above link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LTkni0PrQgGNR8nw62zBeFIacj2uc4NAef46Kwc81vo/viewform?usp=send_form

is shortened to:  http://goo.gl/5fg0tL by using the “Google URL Shortener”

2.  Embed the link into your website.

3.  Share the link through Google plus, Facebook or Twitter

3.  Enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite to take the survey.

Let’s say that I write http://goo.gl/5fg0tL on the board and one of the students is on the computer and goes to that address, here’s what he/she will see:

The student fills out the form:

They click submit and see this:

Meanwhile, you (the teacher) check your Google Drive and you see this:

If I click on “Biology Quiz-Biomes (Responses) I will see this:

As the responses are submitted, I can arrange them by first name, last name and period.

As you can see, Google Form is a nice way to submit online quizzes and surveys.  Hope this helps and let me know if you need any clarification!