7 Great Google Forms Tools for Teachers

February 25, 2015
Since its release a few months ago, add-ons store for Google Forms has several interesting tools added to it. We have gone through these apps and selected the most popular ones there. You can use these add-ons on your forms to add more features and options such as : sending custom emails based on responses, eliminate an option from a multiple choice list after user has submitted it, populate multiple choice lists and grid options from columns in any Sheet, and many more.

1- Form Notifications

This add-on allows users to create and configure email notifications that are sent when a Form receives submissions. Users can have emails sent to the creator of the Form and/or send short, customized reply emails to the Form submitter.

2- formLimiter

Close your survey automatically, after a maximum number of responses is reached, or at a date and time of your choosing.

3- Ultradox Trigger

Create custom emails, reports, invoices, newsletters, etc., based on information that people enter into your form.

4- Form Values:

 Store and pull from lists that you use regularly in Forms, like a list of staff, students, rooms, resources or anything you want.

5- FormRanger

formRanger allows you to auto-populate the choices in list, multiple choice, checkbox or grid question options from columns of data in any Google Sheet or Doctopus roster. Great for ensuring form choices match values in an existing database of records, such as students, inventory items, expected attendees, workshop or session titles, etc. -- useful for then applying matching formulas such as COUNTIF, VLOOKUP, MATCH, and others.

6- Choice Eliminator

This will eliminate options from a multiple-choice, list, or checkbox type of question. Great for signing up for time slots or having students choose topics without doubling up.

7- gMath for Forms

Create graphs (including plotting points), statistical displays, and write complex math directly in your Form!Create graphs and complex math directly in the sidebar and insert them as Form items.

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Teacher Tip- Use Google Forms to Instantly See students Feedback

February 5, 2015
Today I am sharing with you a handy Google Sheets tip to use on the forms you share with students. This tip allow you to receive a notification email  every time a student submits a form. You can select whether you want to be notified each time a change is made to the form or only when a user submits a form. Similarly, you can also choose whether you want to receive a daily digest email or an instantaneous email. In this way, you will be able instantly track all the forms submission from your students and determine who submitted what and when.

To enable this notification feature, head over to your Google form, and click on � Tools� and select �Notification rules�

Select from the options provided in the box.

Watch this video to learn more about this tip.

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A New Wonderful Google Forms Cheat Sheet for Teachers

December 4, 2014

Google Forms is one of the powerful tools you want to make sure you have in your teaching toolkit.There are different ways you can use it with your students in class. You can, for instance, use it to create quizzes, polls, questionnaires, and surveys. You can also use it to design permission forms, absence slips, classroom events forms�you name it. The great thing about Google Forms, besides being free and easy to use, is the fact that it is integrated with Google Drive which means that any form you create is automatically saved in your Drive and you can access it anywhere you go with Internet connection.

In today's post, I am sharing with you this wonderful Google Forms cheat sheet created by Shake Up Learning. This document is particularly useful for beginner users. It provides a lot of tips on how to do a wide variety of task on Forms including how to create a form, change and customize the theme of your forms, add collaborators, and many more.This cheat sheet is also available for free download in PDF format from this link. Enjoy

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A Powerful Google Forms Tool for Teachers

November 7, 2014
Today, I am sharing with you a great Add-on to use on Google Forms. This is called FormLimiter and once installed will enable you to automatically limit the number of responses for a form you created. It basically sets "Google Forms to stop accepting responses after a maximum number of responses, at a specific date and time, or when a spreadsheet cell contains a specified value."
FormLimiter is especially useful for creating time-bound assignments, event registrations with limited seats, quizzes and many more.

Here are some screenshots provided by the developer to illustrate what you can do with FormLimiter:

1- Maximum number of responses 
 Form evaluates on each new submission and shuts off once a limit has been reached.

2- - Specific date and time 
Timer will shut off form on that date, down to the minute.

3- Spreadsheet cell value equals 
 specify a spreadsheet cell (e.g. "Sheet1!A2" in the form destination sheet that must equal a particular value, and the form will evaluate on each new form submission.

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3 Apps Teachers Should Definitely Use on Google Forms

October 24, 2014
The big event in the EdTech world today is the release of add-ons for Google Forms. A feature which will enable Form creators to add more functionalities to their forms. I have spent sometime this evening browsing through the add-ons store and tinkering with some of the apps there and I found the 3 add-ons below to be the most useful for teachers and educators. Keep in mind the add-ons for Forms is still a new feature and as such there are only few apps store right now but more will be launched in the coming weeks. We will  keep you posted of new releases. Stay tuned.

1- formLimiter

formLimiter automatically sets Google Forms to stop accepting responses after a maximum number of responses, at a specific date and time, or when a spreadsheet cell contains a specified value. Great for time-bound assignments, event registrations with limited seats, or other first-come, first-served signup scenarios.

2- Form Publisher

Create a Form and a template Doc. Form submission fields must match variables in the template. Then configure Form Publisher. Each time the Form is submitted, Form Publisher creates a Doc, built from your template, and replaces the template variables with Form responses. Each Doc that is output is owned by the creator of the Form, and can be shared. Output Docs can be stored in any folder.You can automate your HR processes, generate invoices and orders, and more.

3- g(Math) for Forms

This is an invaluable tool for any math class or math teacher. Now, creating math items for your Form is possible!g(Math) allows you to create graphs and complex math directly in the sidebar and insert them as Form items.  With the graph creator, you can type in functions and create the graph associated with that function. You can also plot points in the same graph, find the line of best fit of those points, and specify a viewing window.

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A New Google Forms Service Teachers Should know About

October 23, 2014
Over the last couple of months, Google has been releasing a series of interesting updates to Google Forms. After allowing users to create and use their own  personalized themes in Forms, today Google introduced add-ons for Forms. Just like add-ons for Docs and Sheets, Forms users will also be able to make use of third party add-ons to enhance the look and performance of their forms.

Add-ons, for those of you not yet familiar with them, are  applications designed by third party developers not affiliated with Google. Anyone with the necessary know-how can draw on Google's Documentation to design  add-ons and publish them on add-on store. The importance of add-ons is that they add extra functions and services to your Docs, Sheets and now Forms. In other words, using add-ons will enable you to do more with your docs, sheets and forms than you would normally do without them. For instance, using the FormLimiter add-on in your Forms will let your survey close automatically after a maximum number of responses is reached or at a date and time of your choosing.

To access add-ons, open your Google Form, click on "add-ons" and select "get add-ons":

As of right now, the Forms add-on store counts only a few apps but more add-ons will be launched in the coming weeks as developers work their way through them.

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Important Tips On Using Google Forms to Grade Students

October 10, 2014
Here is an excellent video tutorial from Google Guru featuring some important tips to help teachers use Google Forms for grading rubrics. This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a simple multi-purpose form for your classroom which you can use for any kind of assignment you give to your students. You will also get to learn how to add grids to your form, evaluate students work and collect responses in a spreadsheet.  Watch the video to learn more.

For those of you who are not in the picture yet, Google Forms released three interesting updates a few days ago. The one that I like the most and which I am sure many of you are looking forward to is limiting form responses to one person. Using this new feature, you , the creator of the form, will be able to get one answer per person by simply turning on the "only allow one response per user" feature in your settings. Similarly, you can also limit people to one response per column for grid-style questions using the new option under"advanced settings". Check out this page to learn more about Google Forms recent updates.

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