In this video, I'm going to show you how to make a student survey using Google
Forms. A Google Form student survey is a really easy way to get feedback from
your students and then be able to see a clear, organized breakdown of the results.
Once you learn how to make a Google Form survey, you can also give them to
teachers after professional development or if you need to get feedback from lots
of different teachers about student goals, you can also use surveys for that
purpose. My name is Sam Kary and this is my YouTube channel for The New EdTech
Classroom. If you like the tips that I share in this video, you can show your
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sure you don't miss any of my weekly video updates. Let's start by looking at
a Google Form survey that I had my students fill in just a couple weeks ago.
On this survey, I wanted to know more about my students' experience with
distance learning to make sure I was getting some feedback from them about
how to improve my practices and make their learning experience a little bit
better for the last month of school. You can see that I've asked a question that
they would rate on a scale of one to five and then the rest of the questions
that I asked about the types of improvements they would like to see are
just quick, short answer responses. After a student is finished taking this survey,
they'll hit the 'Submit' button at the bottom and then you'll see on the
teacher end that I'm able to see the exact number of responses that I've
gotten from my students. Here you'll see that I'm able to get a summary of all
their responses in one place. Since I chose to collect the email addresses of
the respondents, I'm able to see quickly who responded to the survey. Then for the
question with a numerical response, I can see a breakdown of how students
responded in a bar graph. And next you'll see their responses to the short answer
questions that I asked all in one place, so that it's easy to read and review. You
can also look at a question breakdown. Here you can select a specific question
and then below you can see how students responded just to that question. You can
also choose to look at an individual student report to see how a particular
student responded to the questions that you asked. If you've
already reviewed the results, but think you might get some survey responses
trickling in, you can also choose to get an email notification when new survey
responses are recorded. The last way to view all the survey responses is to
generate a Google Sheets to see all the answers to your questions in one place.
All right, so let's jump in and take a look at how to create a survey using
Google Forms. On the Google Forms homepage, you'll notice that there are
lots of different templates that you can work from or you can just go ahead and
start with a blank document. The first thing you'll want to do is give your
survey a name and then write a short description. You'll see if you click on
the name of the document at the top that it will automatically convert the name
of the document to the name you gave your survey. In order to add new
questions, go up to 'Add Question.' The first thing I'm going to do is have
students enter their email. You're going to see throughout this tutorial that
Google Forms does a pretty good job anticipating what you're trying to do, so
if you type your email, it's going to automatically prompt you to ask if you
want to set it up so that it collects email responses with the survey results.
I do like to select this option so that I'm able to see which of my students
actually submitted a survey and then I'm also able to easily see how each
individual student responded. There are some cases where I just give a totally
anonymous survey because I want students to feel safe to be able to give me
candid feedback, so in that case I would not collect emails with the survey
responses. To start building my survey, I'm going to go ahead and go up and add
another question. You'll see that the default question type is multiple-choice,
but that it will also adjust based on how Google interprets the question that
you're asking. So the first question I want to ask my students is, "How difficult
has the work been so far for distance learning," and you'll notice that Google
has already interpreted that I might want to be using a linear numerical
scale for this type of question. And then you'll see below that you're able to
label the numbers so that students understand what the scale represents. At
the bottom, you'll notice that the default setting is that specific
questions are not required. If you want students to have to answer the question
in order to submit the survey, you need to turn on the required button.
I'm going to add another question and here I'm going to ask my students
what suggestions they have for their teacher to improve their experience for
the last month of school. You'll notice that Google interpreted, that rather than
a multiple-choice question, that I probably want students to respond in
paragraph form to this question. Just like the last question, I'll make this a
required question as well. If you wanted to ask your students to choose from a
limited range of choices, you could pick a multiple-choice question and if you
want students to be able to select multiple answers, then you would want to
use the checkboxes. You'll notice at the bottom of the question that you're given
an option to duplicate the question. This would be a helpful function if you have
lots of similar types of questions. And then if you decide you want to delete
one of the questions, just hit the trash can, and the question will be
deleted. You can also rearrange the order of the questions by simply clicking on
them and dragging the question wherever you want it to go. If you want to
customize this survey and make it a little bit more personalized and
interesting, go up to the paint palette at the top of the screen and there
you'll be given some different options for how you could customize your survey.
You'll notice under 'Theme Options' that you can change the image header. You can
either pick from one of the default pictures that they have or you can
upload your own photo. Then you can also change the theme color, the background
color, as well as the font style. And before you push out the survey, it's a
good idea to preview it first. So now let's take a look at some of the
different settings options for this survey. You'll notice since I already
chose with that first question to have emails collected, that the box to collect
emails is already checked. If you click on the next option, it will give students
a response receipt after they finish their survey. I do usually like to check
the box to limit survey responses to only one response and then I typically
leave the bottom two boxes unchecked for students to be able to edit their
responses after they've submitted them or see the responses from other students.
But of course, there might be some circumstances where it would make sense
for students to be able to see how the rest of their classmates responded. The
presentation options are really more applicable when you're creating
a Google Forms quiz, but I am going to go ahead and add my own confirmation
message that students will get after they finish taking the survey. When
you're ready to assign this survey, go up to the 'Send' button at the top. There
you'll see that you're given an option to add a collaborator, so if you wanted
to share this survey with another teacher, you could enter their email and
they could also be a co-owner of this survey with you. This can be useful if
you share students and you want other teachers to be able to see the way that
students responded to the survey that you gave them. Then you'll see that there
are really two ways that you can assign this survey. One option for sending out
the survey is that you email your students directly. I personally use the
link function most frequently. Here I just copy the link and then I might
create an assignment in Google Classroom and just add the link as part of that
assignment. I hope you learned how easy it is to use Google Forms to make a
student survey, as well as how to organize the results, so that they're
really easy to read and interpret. If you have any questions or suggestions about
using Google Forms surveys in schools, please comment below. Thank you so much
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