Google+Forms

An introduction to __**Google Forms**__
The following is a short video on __**Google Docs Forms.**__ Here's what you'll learn: media type="youtube" key="IzgaUOW6GIs?version=3" height="244" width="392" The following website is a Google Docs website that will help you to learn more about Google Docs and how to use them. []
 * How Google Docs Forms can help you easily gather information from a large number of people without having to send and receive multiple emails.
 * How to create a form and keep track of the answers.
 * What to do with the information as it gets added to the results spreadsheet.

On this webpage are //Google Docs templates// that are great timeservers for creating several different types of Google Docs. They are set up and ready to go. There is even a sections for students and teachers. []

The following article from Digital Inspirations discusses the use of Google Docs as a collaborative effort. =Why Forms in Google Docs are Perfect for Creating Online Surveys = While there are plenty of web polling services around where can you create online polls and surveys for free, there are couple of reasons why the form builder in Google Docs rules them all. **Reason 1**. You can create any number of polls and surveys using Google Docs for free and virtually unlimited number of people can participate in such surveys via the web browser. **Reason 2**. The forms created with Google Docs are mobile friendly and people can therefore send in their responses from mobile phone browsers as well (perfect for conducting polls in a conference). **Reason 3**. All the votes and responses are automatically collected in an Excel spreadsheet and that makes it easier for you to analyze large sets of data using charts and other complex spreadsheet functions. **Reason 4**. You can chose to get [|email notifications] as soon as people fill in a Google Docs form with their responses. **Reason 5**. Forms in Google Docs support a wide range of question types including scale and grid that are generally not available in other web polling services (at least the free ones). **Reason 6**. With Google Docs, you can pre-populate form fields via URL parameters. This is pretty handy in case you want to pre-fill some fields of the form with default choices or if you are planning to integrated a Google Docs form with another system like the comment section of your site - if someone has filled their name and email in the comment section, they need not fill that data again in Google Docs form.



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reason 7**. Google Docs is probably the only free polling software that supports logic branching. This is like serving a different set of questions to a user based on their previous responses. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Reason 8**. Google Docs forms are great for conducting internal surveys as well if you are using Google Apps in the organization. That's because Google Docs can automatically record* the email addresses of people (your employees) who fill out the form.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">As we have mentioned in an earlier chapter, Google has a huge variety of resources and tools for educators to use. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">For this assignment you will be creating an online form as a Field Trip Permission slip. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">To do this you will need to go to [|Google]. You will need to have an e-mail account if you haven't already created one. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Here is my permission slip: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Other forms can be found if you go to Create new -- from template. There is a category for teachers and students that has templates already created for a variety of tools. You should view them and find one template that you think you could use in your classroom. Add a description of that template to your response in the wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Go to your e-mail account.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Once in your e-mail, click on documents.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Choose Create new -- then form. You will see a blank template.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fill in the title of the Field trip. In the paragraph text at the top include the trip specifics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Then choose "add items" for any questions to be answered. Choose a theme for the permission slip.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Add the <span style="color: #fc7878; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**e-mail address of each classmate** to view the permission slip.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Look at the very bottom of the page and find the URL of your site. Add the URL to the wiki so we can view it.