What is Google Forms(Docs)?

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2 What is Google Forms(Docs)? - Google Docs is a free Webbased application in which documents and spreadsheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection and a full-featured

3 Web browser. Google Docs is a part of a comprehensive package of online applications offered by and associated with Google.

4 - Users of Google Docs can import, create, edit and update documents and spreadsheets in various fonts and file formats, combining text with formulas, lists, tables and images.

5 Google Docs is compatible with most presentation software and word processors. Work can be published as a Web page or as a print-ready manuscript. Users can control who sees their work. Google Docs is ideal for publishing within an enterprise, maintaining blogs or composing work for viewing by the general public.

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7 Step One: Getting Started Create your own GOOGLE ACCOUNT

8 Access to drive.google.com

9 click the button in the upper left area of the screen. Then select from the drop down menu that appears.

10 You will be prompted to select a Title and Theme for your Form. When you have finished, click:

11 A new editable Form will then be created for you and the first question of the form will be open in the editor and ready for you to edit.

12 Before you begin to create your actual quiz, I first like to set up the initial data collection necessary to track students. In my case I ask students to enter their: Name, , Class

13 Name For Question Title: I enter, Name, or you can ask the question, What is your name? You must also select the Question Type, in this case it will be Text.

14 And this will be important information to gather, so don t forget to check the Required question, checkbox. When you are finished, click:

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16 To make each new question, you can click the button. NOTE: If you click the only portion of the button, you will be given a ready to edit item of the same type as you just created. If you click the portion of the button, you will be given a drop down menu of all the different types of items you can add to your form.

17 and or Student Number click the portion of the button, and create prompts asking the quiz taker to enter the other housekeeping information you need to collect, such as or student ID. Simply repeat the process done for 1.4.a., above. Don t forget to check the Required question checkbox.

18 . Class If you are planning to use the quiz for more than one class, you might want to add a multiple choice option for students to select. Click: For Question Title enter: Select Course. For Question Type: select Multiple choice.

19 Next, enter names for the courses that students will recognize. And finally, Don t forget to check the Required question, checkbox.

20 Step Two: Adding Content First, let s make a text question. Choose text for the question type. What is Harry Potter s enemy s name? If you want to, you can add some help text. If needed, something like, Write one word, in English. Probably you want to make this a required question. If so, click on where it says required. That way, the testtaker cannot skip it to go on to the next one. When you are finished, click Done.

21 To add a new question, click the Add item button at the top left of the page. If you want to add multiple-choice question, please choose Multiple choice.

22 If you want to add more multiplechoice questions, just duplicate the question by clicking the Duplicate icon, and then change the question title and options.

23 You also can add some other question types, such as Checkboxes, Paragraph text, Choose from a list, Scale and Grid. Just add the questions by clicking Add item or Duplicate icon. After editing the question click Done to finish the editing work. Don t forget to tick Make this a required question check box if you want to require everyone to answer this question. Otherwise they can just skip the question and move on.

24 Step 3: Preview and Save the quiz When you re done adding questions, you can save your quiz. Don t worry if the Save button is already grayed out. This means that Google has auto-saved the quiz for you.

25 To view your form click the view live form at the top of the form.

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27 To view who already answer in your form click the view responses at the top of the form.

28 Check out the test results through spreadsheet