Are you using Google Docs in your classroom yet?
If not, why? It is a TOTAL game-changer.
One of the easiest ways to use Google Docs is to make a form for survey and assessment purposes. Google even gathers the data for you and will export it to you an Excel spreadsheet (if you ask). Another is to use Google Docs as a "ticket out the door." A CCSD elementary Art teachers uses Google Docs every day as her "exit slip." Check that out here. Additionally, you can make documents in Google Docs that multiple people can edit at the same time. Awesome news for group projects.
In order to use you Google Docs, you need have a google account (if you have a gmail account, you already have a google account). The steps below walk you through making a simple form/survey in Google Docs.
MAKING THE FORM
1. Go to http://drive.google.com
2. Login to google or make an account
3. Click on "create" and choose the green icon labeled "form"
4. You are now going to make a survey/quiz
5. In the "Untitled Form" window, give the form a title
6. Draft your 1st question
7. Click on the different options to find the best source for student/parent response
8. As you finish the question, click "done" and Google will make another question field for you
9. This is designed to be incredibly intuitive, so the best thing is to click about to find you way
10. Once your form is complete, click on "Send Form" button in the top right-hand corner
EMBEDDING THE FORM INTO YOUR WEBSITE
11. After you click on "Send Form" a window will appear. You can choose to copy the URL link which will send people to a webpage wherein the quiz will be available. OR you can click on "embed" and copy the code that appears. If you choose you "embed" your students/parents can take the quiz directly from your website. For this project, we are choosing "embed." Choose "embed" and copy the code that appears.
12. Login to your weebly website and click on edit
13. Find the place you want your quiz to appear
14. Drag over the "embed code" option from the "basic" blog editor window
15. In the box that appears, paste the code you copied from your Google form
16. Click on "post"
17. Click on the link that appears
18. You should see your quiz live on your website!
EXAMINING THE RESULTS OF YOUR FORM
19. Go to http://docs.google.com
20. Click on the horizontal lines next to "docs"
21. Choose the green icon labeled "sheets"
22. You should see the title of your quiz/form
23. Click on your form title
24. You should see the results
25. To take this to excel
26. Click on "File" and choose "download as"
27. Choose Microsoft Excel
28. Your Excel doc with your results should download! Ta-Da!!
If not, why? It is a TOTAL game-changer.
One of the easiest ways to use Google Docs is to make a form for survey and assessment purposes. Google even gathers the data for you and will export it to you an Excel spreadsheet (if you ask). Another is to use Google Docs as a "ticket out the door." A CCSD elementary Art teachers uses Google Docs every day as her "exit slip." Check that out here. Additionally, you can make documents in Google Docs that multiple people can edit at the same time. Awesome news for group projects.
In order to use you Google Docs, you need have a google account (if you have a gmail account, you already have a google account). The steps below walk you through making a simple form/survey in Google Docs.
MAKING THE FORM
1. Go to http://drive.google.com
2. Login to google or make an account
3. Click on "create" and choose the green icon labeled "form"
4. You are now going to make a survey/quiz
5. In the "Untitled Form" window, give the form a title
6. Draft your 1st question
7. Click on the different options to find the best source for student/parent response
8. As you finish the question, click "done" and Google will make another question field for you
9. This is designed to be incredibly intuitive, so the best thing is to click about to find you way
10. Once your form is complete, click on "Send Form" button in the top right-hand corner
EMBEDDING THE FORM INTO YOUR WEBSITE
11. After you click on "Send Form" a window will appear. You can choose to copy the URL link which will send people to a webpage wherein the quiz will be available. OR you can click on "embed" and copy the code that appears. If you choose you "embed" your students/parents can take the quiz directly from your website. For this project, we are choosing "embed." Choose "embed" and copy the code that appears.
12. Login to your weebly website and click on edit
13. Find the place you want your quiz to appear
14. Drag over the "embed code" option from the "basic" blog editor window
15. In the box that appears, paste the code you copied from your Google form
16. Click on "post"
17. Click on the link that appears
18. You should see your quiz live on your website!
EXAMINING THE RESULTS OF YOUR FORM
19. Go to http://docs.google.com
20. Click on the horizontal lines next to "docs"
21. Choose the green icon labeled "sheets"
22. You should see the title of your quiz/form
23. Click on your form title
24. You should see the results
25. To take this to excel
26. Click on "File" and choose "download as"
27. Choose Microsoft Excel
28. Your Excel doc with your results should download! Ta-Da!!