This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating and sharing a survey using Google Forms: 1. Sign into Google and select Drive to create a new Form. Choose a title and theme. Add questions and set them as required. Create a destination spreadsheet for responses. 2. Preview the live Form and share it by sending a link or embedding it on a Google Site. 3. Responses will be collected in the destination spreadsheet. Data can be viewed in a colorful graphical summary for analysis.

1. Conduct a survey using Google Forms
A step-by-step process to create a survey
and generate data
Let’s go!
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2. Surveys are tools for gathering
insights about a particular focus
area. Surveys require an audience to
respond. Consider networking across
schools to get maximum responses
for student surveys.
Creating, conducting and evaluating
the results of surveys promotes
collaboration, inquiry, development
of shared knowledge and skills.
Why not factor in Google Form
surveys as a regular feature of the
classroom experience?!
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3. what do we want to know? Thesis example:
Instead of reading about the rest ‘Having a family pet is expensive’
of the world's data, why not gather
your own? Using Google Forms, get your
students to generate questions
Ask students to create a set of around this thesis to reveal how
questions around a particular pets are regarded, what kind of pets
thesis. Encourage them to create people have, how many pets, costs
questions which will reveal both
the details and the big picture related to keeping pets, etc...
answer to the thesis proposition.
When it’s time to analyse the data
they will be looking to see if their
thesis can be proven. They may
also find additional points of
interest through the resulting data,
depending on the shape of the
survey questions.
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4. Create a Form
Sign into your Google Account and select ‘Drive’ on the Google Toolbar
Clicking on the red ‘Create’
button will reveal the
various formats you can use
within Google Drive. Choose
the green icon to create a
Form (or spreadsheet option
for different purposes) for
this learning module.
There is no ‘Save’ button as
you work on your Form.
Changes are automatically
saved.

5. Give your survey Form a
title.
Choose a theme if you wish;
this will change the
appearance of the Form for
recipients.
Set the first question as a
‘text’ option and ask
students to write their
name. Make it a ‘required
question’.
Choose the question type
Make all questions ‘required’
so data received reflects
each students voice.

6. Example of a ‘scale’ question type.
‘Scale’ is selected.
Option to describe the extremes
of the scale.
Add another question to the
survey
How the survey respondent sees
the scale question

7. Before you finish, you must
create a destination for the
results of the survey. It’s
simple. The default option
is fine, just click ‘Create’.
Students will click on the
‘Submit’ button when they
have finished the survey.
Results will be sent to the
spreadsheet that you can
access and share with the
class.
Check in your Google Drive
to see the Responses
spreadsheet next to your
Google Form quiz.

8. Select ‘view live form’ to see how it’s
shaping up
What the respondents will
see

9. Sharing direct
If you do not use Google Sites you
can share the form directly to
others when you have finished
creating the questions.
Select the blue ‘send the form’
button on the Google Form page
you are creating your questions in –
located on the top right of screen
or at the end of the question list
you have created.
A pop-up box like this one will
require some details
Send the embed link to many
people via email. OR, add specific
email addresses for specific
respondents.

10. Sharing through embedding on a Google Site
Close the quiz when you have finished
adding questions. Go to your Google
Sites Page and turn the editing tool on.
Go to Insert > choose Documents >
Choose Forms > find the one you want
to use and click on Select > adjust as
required in the pop-up box > click on
Save.
Save your Google Sites Page and the
embedded quiz will appear.
VIP - Make sure you have shared the
Google Page using the ‘anyone with the
link’ option.

11. Go back to your Google Drive and open the
spreadsheet to see student responses.
You will see something like this:
To see results presented in
colour graphical presentation,
select Form > Show summary
of responses

12. Your class survey results
never looked so interesting!

13. prepared by Comet for the Byte project
April 2013