Google Forms
Create Forms/Survey/Guestbook for Your Blog/Websites.
How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Purpose of this tutorial
• • Do you have a blog or website or run a newsletter or just want to survey something by sending your friends a Form using email? If you answer yes to the above question. Then sometime you would wonder if you can create a Poll, Survey, Guestbook or any simple form for your website. Though there are many websites available for this purpose and they may offer you free service or paid service. Many times the free services are limited to number of forms you can create or number of times a form can be submitted. There could be alternatives that can offer you free services without any restrictions. One of such free alternative is using Google Forms. The Purpose of this presentation/tutorial is to guide you to use Google Forms to create a interactive form that you can use for your visitors. This tutorial assumes you have a Google Docs account if you dont have yet you can go here and create a Free account for your self
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 1: Enter Google Doc
Login to Google Docs Click on New Menu and Select Form
How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 2: Create a New Form
• This will open a New Form Window (If you don’t see a new Window then check if your Browser Popup Window Blocker is Active then disable it temporarily) Enter Form Title and Brief description for the purpose of Form. Enter a Question you want to ask. Select a Question Type. More on Question Type on next Step.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 2: Question Types
Question Types suggest how do you expect the user to respond to a particular question. The Different Types can be explained below: • Text - If you expect just one line reply For Ex: Name of Visitor or Email Id. • Paragraph Text - Use them if you want the user to describe something. For Ex: A Feedback Comment, Opinion etc. • Multiple Choice - If you want the user to select few options. For Ex: You want to know which search engines your user use and give them options like Google Yahoo Altavista MSN etc. • Check Boxes - Same as Multiple Choice, But here it will display Check Boxes. • Choose From a List - Select single option from a list of Choice. For Ex. Yes/No Type of Questions
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Scale - If you want your user to rate some thing then you can specify what scale you want to measure. For Example If you want to survey how your user rate a particular movie you can ask them to rate between 1 to 5.
You should decide the question type based on what you want to ask and how you want your user to respond.
How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 3: Creating Questions/Form Elements
• After you have framed a Qustion you can also mark it as Required Question. Click Done once you are done with this question. You can add more questions by clicking on Add Items as shown in Figure.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 4: Select Theme or Look and Feel
• Once you have framed your Form now its time for look and Feel. Please see the Figure in previous step and if you select Theme you will be displayed a screen similar to what you are seeing in this Step. You can Select a Theme that fits appropriately to your website/blog/liking. Save the Theme.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 5: Ready to use your form.
• Now your form is ready and its time to use it after you have save id (Sometimes Google auto saves it so dont need to worry about this step.). You can select to Send Email to your friends. Or you can select Embed option So that You can embed a small html script to your blog post or website. Please se the next step for more information on this one.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 5: Embed code for your form.
• You can copy the Embed code and paste it to your Blog posts html View or any html code. Cancel button will close the Embed code window. You can Select See Response Button to see the responses recieved from this form. Actually Google Docs stores the Responses for you in form of Google Spread Sheet.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
Step 5: Editing your existing form.
• • • • • Editing a existing form can be tricky in google, The reason is as mentioned in previous step that Google treats form as a special form of Spreadsheet. So next time you want to edit your form and you select your document it will open up it as a Spread sheet containing responses. Let it open and If you see the menu item you will see a item labeled Form(Some Number) Clicking above will open a menu and you can select Edit Form. Though I would not suggest editing an existing form...but sometimes you will need to change it before any interaction with user has happened.
How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.
About this Tutorial
This is a free tutorial and you can use it any ways you want even modify it and change look and feel.
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How to create a Free Online Form Using Google Docs.