NOTE: This blog post has been updated for the new Google Forms. Please visit the new post here: 5 Things You Did Not Know About Google Forms
Skip Pages
Google Forms allows you to create pages so that all of the questions are not all on one screen. In some circumstances the questions do not apply for every student. If students answer no they are not participating in a sport the section of questions about which sports the student participates in can be skipped. If you are using a Google Form as a formative assessment quiz you can direct students to a page with instruction on the topic if they get the question wrong or go to the next question if they get the question correct.
Start by creating all of your pages. Use the “Add item” drop down menu to add multiple page breaks. Rename the pages to something meaningful. In the case of a formative assessment quiz create a page after each question to go over the question if the student gets the question wrong and then create a page for the next question.
For Multiple Choice questions there is an option to “Go to page based on answer.” After creating your pages go back to the multiple choice questions to determine which page each answer to take the student to. Note that you should not have more than one “Go to page based on answer” (branching question) per page.
Custom Confirmation
When students finish filling out a Google Form the default message is “Your response has been recorded.” You can edit this confirmation response to give students more specific directions on what to do next. At the bottom of the Google Form edit screen is a box for “Confirmation Page.” Delete the default text of “Your response has been recorded” and replace it with a message that reflects what students should be doing. URL’s (start with http://) in the custom confirmation will be a live hyperlink for students. Suggestion to use short URL’s such as http://goo.gl in the confirmation screen.
Pre-Filled Forms
If some of the fields of your Google Form are highly likely to have a specific answer or if you reuse your Form it can be handy to pre-select some of the answers in Form. For example you can pre-fill the date. If you are using Google Forms to evaluate speakers for a presentation you can have the speakers name pre-filled in.
The option to “Get pre-filled URL” is located under the “Responses” menu.
Choosing this option takes you to a screen that appears to be the live screen. ONLY fill out the parts of the Form that you want to default for the user. At the bottom hit submit to obtain a special URL that you will distribute to the students. This URL will display the default values in the Form. CLICK HERE to see a sample Form where the students information and the assignments information is pre-filled in.
Shuffle Multiple Choice Answers
When creating a multiple choice question you may want to shuffle the “A” “B” “C” response answers. The “Advanced settings” option above the blue “Done” button allows you to choose “Shuffle option order.” Each respondent will see the answer choices in a different order.
Reset Summary of Responses
After testing our your Google Form you will want to delete the sample responses. Go to the “Responses” menu in the edit screen of the Google Form and choose “Delete all responses.”
This only deletes the responses from the Google Form. It does NOT delete the responses from the spreadsheet. This allows you to give a quiz to your first period class and use the “Summary of responses” chart to view charts on how your students answered. After first period “Delete all responses” from the Form and administer the same quiz to second period.
Deleting responses resets the summary of responses to allow you to see just how your second period class performed. Suggestion to use the Full Page Screen Capture Chrome extension to create an image of the summary of responses before you reset the summary of responses. Since the responses are NOT deleted from the spreadsheet you will still have a complete record of how all of your students performed on the quiz but have item analysis per period.
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Alice,
I am wanting to create a test using Google I have used forms and Flubaroo before, but I am needing more. I am wanting to create a strand by strand test and IF the student scores above a certain percentage (say 80%), then they have “mastered” that strand. Once they have mastered that strand, I want them to be able to move on to the next strand to see if they can “master” it. If they do not score the 80%, then I want them to have to take a DIFFERENT version of that same strand’s test. Make sense? Is this possible? Thank you!!
Google Forms is a survey tool. It is hacked for a quiz tool, but that is not it’s primary function. I recommend you use quiz tools when you need more advanced features. I used quia.com/web
I am wanting to be able to create a quiz that is strand by strand with the CLE’s. For example, Strand 3.1.C.b. A student will take the quiz. IF they score an 80% or higher, I want them to be able to move on to a different quiz for a different strand since they mastered the content. But, for a student who scores 70%, they need to review the material and take a different strand 3.1.C.b quiz until they have reached the 80% mastery. Please let me know if this makes sense or if you have any solutions!! Thanks!
You certainly can do that, but not automatically with Forms necessarily. You can set up an Autocrat script after running the Flubaroo script to send students with a high score a link to move onto the next quiz. Lower scoring students are sent a message to take the original quiz again.
Can you teach me how?!?!
Alice, how do I go about setting up the link for the high students and the the one for the lower students? I have researched Autocrat, but not sure if I should make a separate Google Doc that directs the low students somewhere and then a separate one for the high students? Or is there a way to have autocrat automatically use that column and send a different message?
Please help! Is there a blog post that is discussing this somewhere that I can read? Hoping to have this set up for my kids next week!
Thanks.