1. Creating online questionnaires with Google Docs
for quality feedback
e-Learning Workshops
Mike Chui
mikechui@ied.edu.hk
Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology (LTTC)
http://www.lttc.ied.edu.hk

2. Today’s Agenda
 What is Google Docs?
 Benefits on education?
 Design a questionnaire (hands-on)
 Present real-time data (hands-on)
 How to share editor duty
 Q & A + Survey

3. What is Google Docs?
 A free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation, form, and data storage service
offered by Google.
 URL http://docs.google.com
System Requirements:
 Internet browser (Firefox/ I.E./ Flock/ Chrome)
 MUST have a Gmail account

4. Benefits on education
 Free
 Web-based
 Collaboration - documents can be shared, opened,
and edited by multiple users at the same time
 Save to the Google servers - up to 1GB since
January 13, 2010
 Save to the user's computer in a variety of formats
(ODF, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, Word)

5. Hands-on materials
 Content of sample questionnaire (questions.txt)
 Google Docs Internet shortcut (googledocs.url)

6. Google Docs - Question Types
 Text
 Paragraph text
 Multiple choice
 Checkboxes
 Choose from a list
 Scale
 Grid (A group of similar questions in a new, compact
grid format, see the diagram)

7. Sample questionnaire in action
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey
=dHhHcHhTbHZSU1VFU0xBN0RFQVZPcWc6MA

8. Considering the question type

9. Considering the question type (con’t)

10. Considering the question type (con’t)

11. Designing a questionnaire
 Go to http://docs.google.com
 Sign in with your Gmail ID

12. Designing a questionnaire (con’t)
 Click on Create new > Form

13. Adding Title and Objectives
 Open questions.txt
 Copy some texts for the title and objectives of
your questionnaire

14. Question One
 Select proper question type, enter the following
information, click on Done button to save the
form

15. Basic operations of questions

16. Question Two
 Click on Add item button; select Checkboxes
 Enter the following information (for the first four
options)

17. Question Two (con’t)
 For the “other” option, click on the add “Other”
link
 Click on Done button to save the form

18. Question Three
 Click on Add item button; select Scale
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

19. Question Four
 Click on Add item button; select Grid
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

20. Question Four (screenshot)

21. Question Five
 Click on Add item button; select Checkboxes
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

22. Question Six
 Click on Add item button; select Multiple choice
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

23. Question Seven
 Click on Add item button; select Paragraph text
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

24. Adding Section Header
 Click on Add item button; select Section header
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the header

25. Questions for personal contact
 Click on Add item button; select Text to add the
following questions
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

26. Questions for personal contact (con’t)

27. Questions for personal contact (con’t)
 Click on Add item button; select Checkboxes to
add the last question
 Enter the following information, click on Done
button to save the question

28. Adding thank you texts
 Click on More actions > Edit confirmation
 Enter the following information, click on Save
button to finish

29. Invitation for responses
 Click on Email this form button, enter the email
address of your respondents

30. Reviewing responses
 Click on See responses > Summary or
 Click on Form > Show summary of responses

31. More to do
 Change theme
 Edit the questions after signing in (Form > Edit
form)
 Rearrange question sequence
 Share the editor duty with your neighbours

32. Sharing editor duty
 Click on See responses > Summary to see all
responses
 Click on the See complete responses link

33. Sharing editor duty (con’t)
 Double-click any cell to amend responses
 To invite other people as a co-editor, click on
Share > Invite people
 Enter email address in the Invite field, click on
Send button to finish

34. References
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/168309/microsoft_office_vsgoogle_do
cs_a_web_apps_showdown.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs
 http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-features-in-forms.html
 http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141062