Recent Changes to Google Forms

Google forms are a great way to do formative assessment with students, as they are quick and easy to make, provide results in easy to use and sort spreadsheets, as well as summary results in easy to analyze graphs.  Some recent changes make them even easier to use.

New features include:

• Search the menus to quickly access Form features

• Shuffle question order (great for formative assessments!)

• Limit responses to one per user

• Limit one response per column for grid style questions

• Create shortened URL for sharing forms

Here is a recent blog post from the Google Gooru detailing the new form features:

5 More Updates to Customize Your Google Forms

Google announced a redesigned version of Forms a few weeks ago, we hoped there were even more changes on the horizon. It looks like we got our wish with 5 more updates to bring even more customizability to Google’s survey tool.

A couple of the updates allow you to preserve the integrity of your surveys, by only allowing one responses per user and shuffling the order of questions. You can learn how to access all of the updates in the video, but it’s great to see an improved experience for anyone who wants to collect data.

The updates include:

• ‘Search the menus’ to quickly access Form features
• Shuffle question order
• Limit responses to one per user
• Limit one response per column for grid style questions
• Create shortened URL for sharing forms

*Note* – The video refers to ‘require one response per row’ for grid style questions as the update. The update is actually ‘Limit one response per column’ which can be accessed by clicking ‘Advanced settings’ while inside the grid style question.