Google Forms

Google Forms is a great way to obtain data on your students, interact with your students, and easily compile the information to analyze and use in instruction.

Click any of the links below to see examples of various forms for use in the classroom.

Special thanks to Roxann Nys, CESA 7, and others who have contributed ideas and links to this site.

10 Google Forms you can use in your classroom, shared by Nottingham, England teacher and techie, Tom Barrett

Also from Tom: Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google form. This was written prior to Google bringing forms into the main menu, so some of the directions are outdated. However, the blog post contains many great ideas as to how to use forms in the classroom.

• Creating a "Choose your own adventure" style story Includes how to and sample
• Combine mobile devices, QR codes, Sites, and Google Forms to have students complete learning expeditions. Student teams locate QR codes using directions. They then access content/videos and integrate that into a response submitted in Forms. The Form response will provide the clue to their next destination. Students can create their own learning expeditions as well
• Students create a Google Site to share a research project and then embed a Form to get feedback/evaluation from their peers.
• Learn about new students at the beginning of the year with this Getting to Know You form  
• Display the resulting spreadsheet for interesting conversations and sharing. Here's another sample.
• Reserving equipment and tracking it: A Google Form allows teachers to reserve what they need and also gives you all of their information so that when you give the teacher the requested equipment you only have to add a serial number to the spreadsheet.
• Student project management: Reduce the headache of trying to manage large numbers of student groups who may be at different stages of a project. Here's a sample form for a Science Fair Registration
• Create a Close or Exit ticket: Create a form to quickly see how the students felt about the daily class assignment/lesson. 
•  Another great, time-saving way of using forms is to create self-grading quizzes for pupils. A detailed tutorial of how to do this is here.

Assignment Tracker: Use spreadsheets to track student homework. Students can turn in digital homework by posting a link to their assignments. Give each student a anonymous number and share the sheet with both students and parents. Use color coding to quickly identify graded or incomplete work. Include a "comments" section for your reflection on the work and one for the students and/or parents to use as well.

Using Google Sites

Google Sites is a completely online-based tool that allows you to create a simple or extensive web site. With a few clicks, you can create multiple pages, embed rich content, and even allow others to add and collaborate on content.  Sites brings together all of the other great Google tools – letting you easily embed Google Docs, Calendar, Picasa albums, and much more!

Google Sites Overview (includes links to tutorials, help files and more)

Colette Cassinelli explains some of the types of pages you can create and shares some exemplary sites in her TechTipTuesday blog

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