Objective: Learn and discuss how and why to use Google Forms in your class

What are Google Forms & How can you use them in your courses ?

Presentation by Barbara Yalof ,Ed. D. candidate

What are Google Forms & How can you use them in your courses ?

Don’t want to use class time to quiz students?

Want to find out what students understood from your lecture? (quick polls)

PPt. by Barbara Yalof

What are Google Forms & How can you use them in your courses ?

Want a good way to let your students tell you what was not understood, anonymously?

Looking for new ways to engage the student with technology?

Want to step-up and away from the Scantron machine?

Google Documents and Forms provides a cleaner looking, technologically more efficient way to give polls, tests, and quizzes.

You won’t have to use (or fight with) the Scantron machine, so you can grade at home.

Google forms can help save time

Google forms creates a link you send to the students

Get results in spreadsheet or graphs

Use Flubaroo for computations of grades

No sign in is necessary!

How do I start a new Google form?

Go to docs.google.com & sign in – or- Open g-mail-Documents from your

main mail page

Go to “create new” and “form”

The form looks like this to start

Type in your questions. 5 different question types are available

Add each new question by clicking on “Add item”

Here are the choices of types of questions

Here is a quiz that uses every type of question available:

Short answer boxMultiple choice-one answerCheckbox –more than one answerScaleLong answer box (essay)Answer by grids

This is where you find the link to the survey.

You can change the look of the form easily

Click here to change the look of the Form

Here are the choices of format

Here is the form changed and beautified-change back by clicking “cancel”. Click “apply” if you like it.

This is the spreadsheet produced by the Google Form

Here is a completed spreadsheet filled in with answers for an exam-

TIP: Use the “form” menu to open the live form. The number (9) shows you how many responses you’ve received

Once you have created the form (test, quiz) here is what to do

You will need to open the form and answer it to create the correct answer key for scoring

purposes

Use Flubaroo to compute your grades: Go to the “insert” menu, scroll down to “script”,

choose “education”, or type in “Flubaroo” and “search”…and click “install”

You must install the software – but it’s easy!

From the “tools” menu of the spreadsheet-How to find “Flubaroo” in the Scripts Gallery

Grading the Assignment: Let Flubaroo do the work

How to find the grades- they are now on their own spreadsheet

Flubaroo lets you know which questions were answered wrong by 60% of the students- so you can throw out a question that might have been misunderstood

Regrade easily if you’ve thrown out a question. Also, you can email grades

View the histogram and e-mail it to yourself

You can also get data in graphic format by clicking “form” and “summary of responses”

Here is the graph from the Scantron survey you filled in

What are some ways to use Google Forms in your classes?

You as the instructor could…

Your students could…

Open the document from Google mail and create a quiz

http://gmail.harcum.edu

Or www.docs.google.com