Alternative Uses for Google Tools: Google Forms

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Google Forms seems like a pretty straightforward tool, right? Well, it actually has some deep features that would allow you to use it in some very different ways. You can do some amazing things like personalized journeys, never fail quizzes, and breakout edu games. 

The design of forms makes it one of the easiest ways to create a student journey. It’s so easy to add content that you can create them quickly, and you can easily pass them on to students through Google’s ease of sharing.

We won’t cover surveys and quizzes, but lets cover some amazing opportunities for kids!

• Personalized Pathways 
  
  • ​​​​Steps:
    
    • Send them to the different sections that can have different content. You can even descriptions and then use them to post live links (if you do something like cnn.com, it will make that link live automatically)
      
    • Go back to the original multiple choice questions and click the three dots in the bottom right and then “go to Section Based on Response”
      
    • Add different sections (new pages) for the different pathways you want students to take.
      
    • Add a multiple choice question to a page of the form. 
      
  • Possibilities:
    • Have students answer a question and then it can actually send them to an assignment. You could make that live link an assignment that makes sense to them through something like Google Docs.
    • Have the questions be a choice oriented pathway. The student could use the multiple choice question to make their choice and then it sends them down the right pathway.
      
• Never Fail Quizzes
  • Steps:
    • Add a multiple choice question with answer choices to a page on the form.
    • Add two sections: one to send students who get the answer right one to send students to who get it wrong.
    • Go back to the original multiple choice questions and click the three dots in the bottom right and then “go to Section Based on Response”
    • Send them to the different sections based on their response. You could add some type of explanation or video that explains the concept.
      
• ​Breakout Edu Games
  • Steps
    • Add clues to one page of the Google Form using the different content formats
    • Add a short answer question and make it required.
    • Click the three dots in the bottom right corner and click response validation. Use it to confirm the response that needs to be inputed (the correct clue), and add a hint to get the clue in the right format. The user will need to get it right to move to the next section.
    • Add a section and repeat the process.