Google Forms is an app with a lot of reasons to recommend it. It's unproblematic to utilise, easy to share, and it's got a clean interface. Primary amidst its best features is that Google Forms is free.

Anyone with a Google business relationship tin use Google Forms. Information technology's only an excellent tool for creating surveys, quizzes, and nearly whatsoever other kind of class you can dream upward.

In this commodity we'll show you how to make a Google Form in merely a few simple steps.

ane. Begin Creating a Google Form

Kickoff, navigate to forms.google.com and login if prompted. At present it'southward fourth dimension to decide what kind of form you desire to make. You can choose from among the templates in the template gallery, starting time a new grade from scratch, or duplicate a course y'all've fabricated in the by.

Make a Quiz

If y'all're writing a quiz, you can begin by selecting a quiz template or a Bare Quiz. Alternatively, at any time y'all can cull to make your form a quiz by selecting Settings and so on the Quizzes tab, select the toggle button to Make this a quiz. Making your course a quiz allows y'all to assign point values to each question. Google Forms will automatically grade respondents' answers.

Making your form a quiz also opens up another options, like when to tell the respondent how they performed on the quiz. You tin "release" the grade afterward each question or later, afterward you've manually reviewed their answers.

Yous can likewise cull whether respondents tin run across missed questions, correct questions, and/or point values.

Side by side, requite your form a title and, if you wish, a description.

2. Adding a Question or Element

Google Forms are primarily made up of questions, but there are boosted elements you tin can add, too, such as images, videos, and sections.

Importing Questions and Elements

If you lot've created a Google Form in the past that has questions or elements you desire to use in your new form, you tin can import them.

Select the Import icon and so select the form containing questions you desire to import and choose Select. Adjacent, in the Import questions panel, check the box next to every question or element you lot want to import. Finally, select the Import questions push button.

Question Types

Add together a question manually by selecting the Add question icon.

Type the question and, if you want, select the Insert paradigm icon to the right of the question. Images tin come from a variety of sources including your computer, your photographic camera, your Google Photos, your Google Drive, or by doing a Google Image Search.

Next, choose your question type. Google Forms includes all the standard types of questions that yous'll find in other forms tools like SurveyMonkey or Microsoft Forms.

Question types include:

  • Short answer
  • Paragraph
  • Multiple choice
  • Checkboxes
  • Dropdown selector
  • File upload (Files will be uploaded to the form owner's Google Drive.)
  • Linear calibration
  • Multiple choice filigree
  • Checkbox grid
  • Date
  • Time

Enter the response options for your question. For whatever question type, there are options beneath the question and answers where you can require a response, add a clarification or other extra text below the question, add response validation, specify which section the respondent should jump to based on their respond, and/or shuffle the order in which the respond options appear.

3. Pick a Theme

Come across what your form volition wait like to respondents at any point by selecting the Preview icon.

To jazz upward the look and feel of your class, select the Theme options icon. At that place you can choose a header image for your class too as theme and background colors. Yous can too choose from amidst four font styles. (Special request: for love of all that is holy, please never, always cull the "Decorative" font.)

4. Check Settings for More Options

Selecting the Settings (gear) icon will requite you admission to additional options related to collecting responses, how your grade is presented, and the options for quizzes discussed higher up.

Settings for Collecting Responses

In the General tab yous can choose to collect email addresses from the people who fill out your class. Moreover, you can set the form to email respondents their answers automatically or only if the respondent requests a re-create.

Yous tin also end people from responding multiple times. There are besides settings to allow respondents to edit their responses subsequently they submit the class and to allow them to see summary charts and text responses.

Presentation Settings

In the Presentation tab in Settings, y'all can opt to prove respondents a progress bar indicating how much of the form is left for them to complete. If you lot want the social club of the questions to be randomized, bank check the box adjacent to Shuffle question club. And, if y'all desire respondents to exist able to fill up out the form once more, check the box next to Show link to submit some other response.

The Presentation tab is also where you can write a Confirmation bulletin that will exist displayed once respondents accept completed the course.

5. Share Your Form

Once your form is ready to get, select the Send button. Yous'll meet a number of ways to share your course. Check the box marked Collect e-mail addresses if you want to go along a record of respondents' email addresses.

Send Via Electronic mail

To send your grade in an email, enter in the recipient's e-mail address, the email subject, and, if you want, a short message. If you lot desire the form to be straight embedded in the email itself, as opposed to an email with a link to the form, check the box marked Include course in electronic mail.

If yous want to share the form for other editors to edit, select Add collaborators and add together editors by selecting them from the list or entering their electronic mail address.

Generate a Link

Selecting Send via link will generate a link y'all tin re-create and paste anywhere you desire, including in a text bulletin, a messaging app, or chat group.

Share on Social Media

Choosing the Facebook or Twitter icons volition open a new browser tab with a pre-filled draft mail for the social media network y'all selected.

6. Go Answers

Select the Responses tab, and yous'll get admission to a quick summary of responses. You tin too view individual responses or consign responses to a spreadsheet.

Generate Embed HTML Lawmaking

If you lot want to embed your form onto a web page, cull Send via Embed HTML. You can specify the width and height of the form, and Google Forms will generate HTML code for you to copy and paste into your website.

Add-Ons for Google Forms

There are many add-ons bachelor for Google Forms in the Google Workspace Market place. These add together-ons can extend the functionality of Google Forms in all kinds of ways. Select the More than/Ellipsis icon to the right of the Send button and choose Add-ons.

Do you desire to add a timer to your grade, customize email notifications, or generate a word cloud from class responses? There'southward an addition for that.