This past weekend I was at the EdTechTeam Google Summit. I went last year as well (I presented last year on gamification with Google).

I always learn interesting, useful, and inspiring things. This time I plan to share a few of them.

This first one is about Google Forms.

Google Forms are a way to create questionnaire-type forms that can be shared online. The answers that are submitted are saved into a Google Spreadsheet, one row per submit.

I’ve used them for the usual questionnaires, but I have also used them to:

1. Create peer review forms that students can fill out during class while their peers are doing their presentations.
2. Create game or required reading review or reflection forms. This allows the teacher to gather all of the responses in one place for easy assessment.
3. Create simple quizzes. They can even be automatically graded if you add formulas in the columns to the right of the last question that use the values entered from the form.
4. Create a Critical Incident Questionnaire to gather feedback from you students on how things are going in the class.
5. Create sign-up sheets for things like class resources, projects, and presentation times. By using the Choice Eliminator Add-On you can even make choices disappear when they are full.

They have made some things much easier to handle, thereby reducing the amount of time I have to spend doing admin stuff, which in turn gives me more time to help my students.

p.s. Thanks to MRU‘s Academic Development Center for sending me!

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